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Promises Made, Promises Kept: Candidate Obama Promised. Will President Obama Deliver?

Statement By 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin Alexandria, VA — Regarding health care, candidate Barack Obama repeatedly said any overhaul of healthcare should be negotiated publicly and televised for all to …

Massive Medicare Cuts Await Elderly Says New Ad From Seniors’ Group

ALEXANDRIA, VA – The 60 Plus Association, a 17-year-old nonpartisan senior citizens advocacy group often referred to as the “conservative alternative to the AARP” today released a TV ad warning the elderly …

Washington Times

Daniel Hannan, a Conservative member of Parliament from southeastern England, was at the Army Navy Club in the District on Tuesday to offer enthusiastic opinions on the “American Tea Parties” phenomenon. “For 11 years, Britain has had a socialist government that has squeezed the productive end of our economy to expand the unproductive end of our economy. Don’t repeat that in America,” Mr. Hannan told his hosts, which included Townhall.com and the Leadership Institute.

Seniors Suffer Under Obama/AARP/PhRMA “Healthcare Reform”

All Americans, especially seniors, want and deserve affordable and accessible healthcare. But attaining that goal will be next to impossible under the Obama Administration’s proposal.

Seniors Urge Congress To Oppose Federal Renewable Energy Standards

A Federal Res Will Impose Unnecessary And Burdensome Costs On Senior Citizens ALEXANDRIA, VA — The 60 Plus Association, a national nonpartisan advocacy group, today sent a letter to all members of …

Robbing Peter To Pay Paul

Print More Money To Finance Health Care! Statement By James L. Martin Arlington, VA — The President wants $634 billion dollars over 10 years as a “down payment” to finance health care. …

Mother’s Milk Of Politics

“In 1962, I covered Congress as a reporter for a news bureau that included the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, the Columbia (S.C.) State, the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, WFLA-(Tampa) TV, 50,000-watt radio stations WDBO (Orlando) and WGBS (Miami) to name a few of the more than two dozen media outlets.

From that perspective, I witnessed one of the most lopsided presidential victories ever. Democrat Lyndon Johnson beat Republican Barry Goldwater, 486 electoral votes to 52 with a popular vote of 43 million to 27 million.

Strong-Arming Seniors Will Be The Death Of Medicare

Only in Washington could a supposedly self-funded government program that’s operating in the red and facing insolvency walk away from an opportunity to save billions of dollars.Yet that’s exactly what Medicare, the health care program for seniors, is doing: shamefully ignoring an opportunity to save billions by forcing retirees who want to pay for their own medical coverage to accept Medicare.

Seniors’ Group Criticizes Hagan/DSCC Age Distortion Attack On Senator Dole

The head of a senior citizens’ organization called an attack ad aimed at Senator Elizabeth Dole “rude and frankly insulting to real senior citizens.”

Seniors Support Pickens Plan

The 60 Plus Association today endorsed the “Pickens Plan,” an energy campaign launched earlier this week by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, to offset foreign oil imports with domestic energy sources.