AARP's new ad...

As a little background, I am able to join the seasoned citizens group, AARP due to an accident of being in the early years of the baby boom generation. I once thought that AARP had a valid and useful part in the general culture of this country. Now, however, I see ads on TV that challenge their claims of truthfulness and relevency. Have you seen the ad that has a lady being told that because her sink is backed up she needs to have her whole house torn down? The problems in Social Insecurity are presented as being of minor consequence and easily fixed with simple solutions and the efforts of people to bring about a change in where a tiny percentage of the tax is left in the tax-payer's hand is considered "too extreme". To go over the numbers about how much could be accomplished by setting aside money under your own control for your own retirement is somewhat redundant. (Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department.) Suffice it to say that even a small amount of money invested regularly in mutual funds adds up to a mammoth amount of money when held for twenty to forty years. So when AARP mouths the same propaganda that the Dems are pushing, I wonder at the level of truth and relevancy they have. Where have you gone, you onetime true advocate of retired persons? How in the world can you persist in presenting the ideas that living in poverty is the way to go in retirement? You complain that many retired people are living with the questions of whether to eat or get medicine and you resist the idea that making a longterm investment is a good thing. How do you live with yourselves?