Rich Lowry on AARP & Social Securty on National Review Online
When I was a teenager in the Reagan years, I had a barber who had immigrated to the US at age 40. Conversations with him about comparative culture were always fascinating -- if not difficult to follow through his thick Sicilian accent and loud hair dryer.
In one conversation, I told him that it shocked me why Communist and Socialist labor unions were so popular throughout Europe. My barber said it was really very simple -- if I were in an Italian labor union, he would be cutting my hair for free. Legal fees, free. Other costs of life, free.
The AARP has discovered one of the Communist secrets of artificially creating political power: power founded on membership numbers and not on a common agenda within the membership. This trick is used throughout the American body politic. How many people are like me and approve of conservation as a goal and would like to support organizations that favor conservation? Yet how many conservation groups that look inviting are pushing some of the most damaging political notions?
If conservatives want to leverage their voice, they need to steal a powerful political notion -- serving your members with desired services. Forget the coffee mugs.
This is not a shocking idea because businessmen are always looking at ways to improve their business by better serving their customers? Aren't conservatives fond of businessmen for this service mentality?
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