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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talk to your parents, people. [/quote]

Perhaps your parents are different. You can't tell seniors with a mind of their own what to do. Even once they have Alzheimers, good luck. The aide can convince them to give all their jewelry and anything that can be found in the home that is worth something. It is very hard to protect vulnerable people. Before you have a diagnosis of cognitive impairment it is so much harder. [/quote]

Yep.   My Dad gave away about $85,000 in political donations in just the first half of this year.   He was getting emails and texts from various politicians (he truly believes to this day that he was really direct personal contact with  senators and congressmen) asking for money--and he happily obliged.   He definitely does NOT have the money to do that!   When my brother  found out and talked to him about it (probably pretty harshly!) my dad got upset and said he was "still learning" how to manage money (at 75!) and then refused to let my brother look over his finances at all. Some elderly are very reluctant to give up ANY independence and would literally rather be scammed out of millions than allow their adult children any oversight.

Just FYI if you want to look up political contributions by name, you can search here https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?two_year_transaction_period=2022&min_date=01%2F01%2F2021&max_date=12%2F31%2F2022[/quote]

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