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nctarheel
nctarheel
Community Champion ⭐
April 8, 2025

AARP....TIME TO STAND UP FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS

  • April 8, 2025
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Google AARP and TARIFFS and what do you get?

 

Your get a statement that reads as follows:

 

              "AARP DOESN'T HAVE A FORMAL, PUBLICLY STATED POLICY ON TARIFFS"

 

With millions of AARP members losing billions of dollars in savings...........

 

With millions of AARP members paying millions of dollars for more expensive goods.....

 

It is time for AARP to get "OFF ITS BUTT" and PUBLICLY STATE A POLICY!!!!!!!

 

To keep silent as SENIOR ACCOUNTS ARE DRAINED and essential goods RISE EXPONENTIALLY can only be construed as agreement with the tariffs.

 

                                  DO SOMETHING AARP!!!!!!!!

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      GailL1
      GailL1
      Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
      April 9, 2025

      @nctarheel 

      AARP’s would not have an opinion on the Tariffs themselves, rather they would be advising seniors on how to deal with times of financial downturns.  Whether tariffs are applied or not is a national debate not one that is specific to seniors.  We have a lot of national or legislative debate - but AARP concentrates its efforts on what is directly affecting seniors.  

       

      Here’s their advocacy page

      https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/government_watch/ 

      The letters they have written on senior matters are linked to this page.

       

      I assume that you are talking about protecting one’s retirement savings and here too they seem to concentrate on matters that directly affect seniors like this one:

      AARP.org - Works To Protect Women’s Retirement Savings 

       

      Again, if you are talking about protecting your market-invested retirement savings at this particular time when there is some turmoil in the stock market - that’s a matter for a fidicuary to advise you - turmoil in the market can come from any number of places - even the way that the sun comes up sometimes.

       

      In the meantime, BUY AMERICAN - LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL - 

      You may disagree but Tariffs are one way to do this,  Another way would be to compete with China on their labor rate of pay - and I don’t think anybody wants the 2nd way.

       

       

      IT‘S ALWAYS SOMETHING . . . . .. . . . Roseanne Roseannadanna
        nctarheel
        nctarheelAuthor
        Community Champion ⭐
        April 9, 2025

        @GailL1, 

         

        I find your smug, snobbish response to be off putting at best. The fact that one person is responsible for the loss of billions of dollars of retirement security for millions of older people calls for AARP to take a stand. Do not lecture me on the financials as I am sure you know no more than I. 

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