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...good reason to suspect that many hold such opinions lightly. So long as spending falls within some fairly broad range, a significant share of the public doesn't especially care. This indifference leaves politicians and those special interests that do care--in particular, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)--room to maneuver. As a result of activities by groups such as the AARP, spending on entitlements for seniors tends toward the upper end of the range that the broader public finds acceptable...
...that we aren't the only predators on the planet, that we're pretty puny ones, in fact, compared with those that do their meat-processing without the aid of metal implements. Maybe, if there were no bears to cull the human population, the wilderness would be overrun by AARP tour groups and camcorder-bearing Japanese...
...more like the National Rifle Association and the American Association for Retired Persons--with well-defined goals, politically active members, and lobbyists who work throughout the entire legislative session. (The Children's Defense Fund operates on an annual budget of $13 million, compared with $66 million for the N.R.A.; AARP has annual revenues of $300 million...
...Schwartz, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, notes, "Seniors and those in the work force don't understand that the survival of the Social Security system is really dependent on the future of our children." Or perhaps they do: aarp has endorsed the Stand, in part, says spokesman Peter Ashkenaz, because so many grandparents are rearing children...
...course, none of this will effect the AARP's present members...