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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:44 AM Mar 2014

AARP petition: Urge your members of Congress to stand up for older workers !

https://action.aarp.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=FB2771C0FF6EF73FDA37EA6B22098E38.app261b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4001&CMP=EMC-SNG-ADV-FRA-032714&autologin=true&cmp=NLC-ADVOCATE-0314

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AARP petition: Urge your members of Congress to stand up for older workers ! (Original Post) steve2470 Mar 2014 OP

If they Have to be Asked fredamae Mar 2014 #1

Congress, by default, only cares about the rich and large corporations.... steve2470 Mar 2014 #2

You are 100% Correct fredamae Mar 2014 #3

fredamae

(4,458 posts)

1. If they Have to be Asked

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:49 AM

Mar 2014

for their support-------Whats the point of asking them to do what They should be doing as a matter of their Own job descriptions?....

steve2470

(37,457 posts)

2. Congress, by default, only cares about the rich and large corporations....

Reply to fredamae (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:51 AM

Mar 2014

The rest of us have to fight like hell. IMHO.

fredamae

(4,458 posts)

3. You are 100% Correct

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 01:18 PM

Mar 2014

And I am--just got involved at my local Dem Party - yes-I relented and re-joined - as a wise man (Thom Hartmann) once told me: If you don't like it--join them at the grass roots level and change it..so I did

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