AARP:, The

This is the story of how America's most powerful lobby overcame its shady origins to become an exemplary player in the great debate over the future of Social Security and Medicare. The single, bone-crushing problem in American politics - now and for the next thirty years - is how big a share of the nation's economic pie should go to older people for income support and health care. The American Association of Retired Persons is the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of American politics, an organization made up of 32 million members, the most influential, single-minded voting bloc in the United…