AARP WEIGHS IN….Good news: it looks like AARP is planning to fight back against President Bush’s Social Security privatization scheme:
AARP, the influential lobby for older Americans, signaled Wednesday for the first time how fervently it would fight President Bush’s proposal for private Social Security accounts, saying it would begin a $5 million two-week advertising campaign timed to coincide with the start of the new Congress.
….The full-page advertisements, to appear next week in more than 50 newspapers around the country, say the accounts would cause “Social Insecurity.”
“There are places in your retirement planning for risk,” the advertisements say, “but Social Security isn’t one of them.”
One advertisement shows a couple in their 40’s looking at the reader. “If we feel like gambling, we’ll play the slots,” the message says.
I don’t know if $5 million will do it, but it’s a start.
