The Republican Party: The Anti-Senior Party

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bankruptcy.html

March 2, 2005
Senate Rejects Senior Homestead Protection
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:23 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Wednesday rebuffed a Democratic attempt to provide senior homeowners special federal protection from a proposed law making it harder for people to erase their debts in bankruptcy.

Mostly along party lines, it voted 59-40 to reject a proposed amendment that would have allowed older people to get special homestead exemptions allowing them to keep their homes when they file for bankruptcy. Currently, such exemptions are determined by the states.

``Seniors are the people who need the exemption most,'' Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., said during debate before the vote.

But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, argued that the bankruptcy overhaul bill as written already provides protections for elderly people and that, when it comes to homestead exemptions, ``The choice belongs to the states.''





GOP attacks AARP over Social Security


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By David Espo

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/03/02/gop_attacks_aarp/print.html

March 2, 2005 | Washington -- Republicans attacked the AARP as well as congressional Democrats on Wednesday as they struggled to build momentum behind President Bush's call for personal investment accounts under Social Security.

The AARP, which claims 35 million members age 50 and over, is "against a solution that hasn't been written yet," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay after a closed-door meeting with the GOP rank and file.

He called the group's opposition to personal accounts irresponsible and hypocritical, adding that it sells mutual funds to its own membership.

A spokeswoman for the organization had no immediate comment.

That has nothing to do with social security Thomas. Besides, if justice is done, you will be in jail soon. Although I am old enough to be a member of AARP, I'm not, but I do urge them on in their efforts to "fight the power."

I believe the GOP has decided to turn the AARP into a new ACLU it can scapegoat and demonize. The AARP is a big sleeping elephant, run by Republicans. It doesn't even know what's about to hit it.

And when the hit comes, the old folks will hit back. Maybe the gop doesn't know whats about to hit it. One by one, groups of Americans who the gop decides to make enemies will start adding up. And won't that be grand. When the red states start losing Medicaid (Mississippi is on target in two weeks) who will be to blame? The gop is in charge of everything and members of the AARP don't have the time to dilly dally and politic.

After all, they seem to be picking on a demographic that actually votes. :wtf:

were the activists of the sixties.

"He called the group's opposition to personal accounts irresponsible and hypocritical, adding that it sells mutual funds to its own membership."

Yeah. And? Do they deduct the cost of those mutual funds from their membership's pensions, against the will of the members?

WTF??

to dump a shitload of SS money on the private sector. :eyes:

These cads are covering up the draining of whatever money remains in the Social Security Trust funds and making a debt so great there's no way the government's gonna be able to meet the payments on those entitlements and fight wars for profit at the same time. Something's gotta go.

The Repugnicans have fractured the seniors in many ways...using religion and tax cuts to divide the interests of these people and divert their attention from the ongoing fleecing of their savings. Destroying SSI means destroying yet another pillar of that deadly "New Deal" that the right wing needs to destroy just to destroy.

Meanwhile if you're wealthy and beyond the need for needing Social Security, you're able to nut away more money with greater tax breaks...all on the backs of the remnant of the middle class and the working poor. These robber barons aren't concerned about the future, they're gonna grab while the getting is good and someone else clean up the mess. No hypocrisy when you don't have to face the consequences.

party, the anti-rule of law party, the anti-fiscal responsibly party, the anti-diploymacy party preferring instead pre-emptive war, the anit-environment party, the anti-fairness party, the anti-middle class party, on and on ad nauseam, in fact, Repugs are the anti-American party.