AARP sounds alarm: Social Security must change burn aarp cards burn - CBS News

AARP sounds alarm: Social Security must change - CBS News


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Yes, leadership in AARP supporting changes in Social Security. Will talk more at next meeting on this issue.

suggestion: burn AARP cards and tell others.
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(CBS News)
Washington woke up to a new political reality.

The nation's most powerful senior's group telling the Wall Street Journal it was ready to deal on cutting Social Security benefits. The AARP's policy chief John Rother admitting "some of our members will no doubt be upset."

So upset that within hours the AARP was insisting this was always their position, CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.

"We can make changes that are modest and we can make changes with a great deal of lead time so we don't need to affect anyone who is currently retired today or near retirement," said said David Certner, AARP's legislative policy director.

But the group has long opposed such cuts.

As one of their ads says: "AARP has been working to preserve social security for more than 50 years."



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