On 2021-04-17 10:14 a.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 4/17/2021 7:09 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-04-17 1:34 a.m., dsi1 wrote:
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>>> I'd say that the exact opposite is true. Advertising to old folks are
>>> mostly for adult diapers, heart medicine, supplemental health
>>> insurance, funeral insurance, yadda, yadda, yadda. My guess is that
>>> majority of seniors don't have a lot of money to burn. You are
>>> correct that they are a huge group.
>>
>>
>> Don't bet too much on that. A lot of seniors are in good financial
>> shape.Â* They have pensions and benefits. Most of them paid off their
>> mortgages long ago. They aren't paying feed, clothe and educated their
>> kids.
>> I was ticked at our federal government for handing out money to all
>> seniors a couple months into the pandemic. They reasoned that some
>> prices had risen.Â* That may be true but we aren't shopping. We aren't
>> going in vacations. We aren't going out for supper. We aren't spending
>> much money at all.Â* MY wife and I are saving thousands of dollars a
>> month.
>>
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> Yes, but when you buy votes all of that doesn't matter.

Yep. Vote buying was what it was all about. I am sure that a lot of
seniors were grateful for that unsolicited $300. I just wonder how many
of them realize that since there are more people in the receiving end
than on the giving end, that $300 is going to end up costing them much
more than they got.


> Also, lots of ads for river cruises, etc. that in reality are mostly
> directed at older people with time and money on their hands.



My wife is a retired teacher and their organization's monthly magazine
is chuck full of cruise advertising.