The progressives in the Democrat party have taken to referring to the S&P downgrade of the US government’s bond rating as “the tea party downgrade.” Pretty clever huh? But in reality it should be called the AARP downgrade. It is this group of statist oldsters who have continued to successfully push for more and more Social Security and Medicare benefits, not caring a wit about the their grandchildren’s financial well being. Over the years the AARP has been able to turn the greatest generation into the me/entitlement generation. On top of that they have opposed every effort to reform these two treasury busting entitlement programs and put them on some semblance of a sound footing. It is these two programs that are breaking the US Treasury’s back and that have resulted in the government’s bond downgrade. The blame for all of this rests squarely on the AARP’s shoulders and the shoulders of the politicians who have been in their pocket all these years.