What do they want?
I hope someone out there in newspaper land can enlighten me on a point relating to statesmanship. I keep getting urgent solicitations for money from United States congressmen and the American Association of Retired persons (AARP), allegedly to get congressmen to vote in the interest as such as I. They don”t say exactly how much they want. They are vague about it.
They say they will use this money to protect the money I have saved up during my working years to live on in my old age, i.e. social security. I am an 88 year-old retiree.
I have responded to this mendicancy with a question as to how money is going to help or hinder a U.S. congressman vote according to his light, but they seem to feel they have answered that question with every solicitation: to prevent the greedy rich from appropriating our social security money to enrich their Wall Street casino.
I sent a further request asking how my money is going to manage this protection and got no further answer.
It would be pointless to use the money to publicize the need of retirees, for the congressmen who are requesting the money are the very ones who will do the voting. Are they trying to convince themselves of their own convictions? And I refuse to even consider anything as low and cheap as a bribe influencing a U.S. congressman. Well, there”s my conundrum. RSVP.
Dean Sparks
Lucerne
