Watch this video from the AARP Town Hall on health care in Dallas, August 4, 2009. The AARP representatives did not want to hear from the members at all; in fact, once the members began to ask questions, the meeting was officially shut down. The members, however, continued without them. Stunning ...
These members were not violent or threatening; they had questions. Just questions. And concerns. They were not plants by some insurance company or right-wing extremist group. They are ordinary citizens.
Also, at AOSHQ, "Gray Mafia: Senior Mobsters Take on AARP Reps on "Listening" Tour, Who Quickly Get Tired of Listening and Cancel Meeting."
And Michelle Malkin, "Revolt Against AARP in Dallas: “Do You Work for Us or Do We Work for You?”
There'll be a huge thread for this on Memeorandum, but not yet, not yet ...
I wasn't there, but it sure looked to me like the AARP reps (who called for & arranged the town hall meeting, from he looks of it) were saying they were going to speak first, and then open the floor up for questions & comments... But the folks there--members & otherwise--(that biker lookin' guy didn't look that old, to me... Must be all that clean livin' bikers are famous for...) had other ideas, and wanted to run the meeting their own way...
ReplyDeleteTry that at a staff or faculty meeting where you work, and see how far you get (assuming you ain't the boss, I mean...)
You don't always get to do things exactly the way you want to do 'em... It's like having a group of students ripping up the course syllabus & dictating for the rest (including the instructor) when & how the professor is going to teach the class.
Even assuming these students are correct, and are saving the class from an awful semester of really boring lectures from a really bad teacher, staging a coup and taking over the class isn't the way to get that point across. No school in America (& probably not most parents, either) would or should permit it.
So why is it in any way admirable when these adults do it?
It's like I have been saying, once the blue-hairs noodle out the fact that ObamaCare is essentially a post-natal abortion program for our nation's senior citizens, the shit was going to really hit the fan.
ReplyDeleteLOL-Looks like the feces is really starting to fly.
-Dave