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Do not take the on-line version of the AARP driver’s safety course and expect any consideration from your auto insurance company. The Hartford auto insurance denied any discount with the on-line version of the course. They will only offer a discount if you take the in person course. This is totally denying the viability of on-line education. The assumption the on-line course is not worthwhile is entirely bogus. The on-line course is more convenient and easier for people to squeeze into a busy life. Of course this would mean more people would take it and then Hartford would be forced to provide more discounts. See any correlation here? More people taking a course to improve their driving leading to more discounts on insurance policies would mean a decrease in profits. Hartford Auto Insurance claims they want people to improve their driving skills so they can give them a discount. Get real, they want to pay lip service to the program without being forced to give up t...

The following is from AARP. Being an old guy, I am a member in good standing of AARP. I don’t always agree with everything the organization supports but I have never caught them lying to me. Sadly I can’t say that about either political party. Health care reform has become a political issue which denigrates its imperative necessity. “Swift Boating” has become a popular tool to discredit anything the demagogues disagree with. The louder and harder you lie, the more people fall prey to your lies. Oddly enough the “big lie” was a popular tool of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) and that party name is being used as a club against those who support health care reform. This issue has become emotional and has attracted the emotionally unstable to become vocally bombastic. Getting away from the emotional rhetoric, I pay a bunch of money each month for very basic insurance. It is expensive but necessary. Key here is that I can afford it. Way too many people can...

I am a member of AARP, a gang for old folks. As a gang, we have colors red, white and blue. We have our “do-rags”, AARP ball caps. We also have our club houses, the local senior centers. Somewhat like your street gangs that offer protection to their members, AARP also offers protection. Of course, AARP does not justify their existence with violence or guns. Instead, AARP offers benefits. There has to be some compensation for aging. It sure isn’t the bum knees, the tricky back or the balding head, in this case it is the AARP benefits. I recently re-upped with my AARP dues. It was $39.95 for 5 years. Shortly thereafter I needed to rent a car for several weeks. I did my due diligence and went to all the sites that claim to save you money on car rental. I even went to Bill Shatner’s site, Priceline. Not one of those sites had a price even close to what I got through the AARP site. Even Captain Kirk’s “name your own price” site failed dismally to compete with the AARP site. How much did I s...

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