"If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin." -Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren,

 October 24, 1780

It is an honor to know that so many of America's "experienced Patriots" will be reading the messages of this newsletter.

In the 10 weeks since Glenn Beck asked me to tell his TV audience my story about the 912 Super Seniors, thousands of you have contacted our site with questions, concerns and interest in joining together to do something. That "something" is evolving in several directions and will continue to develop as the volunteers here work with Seniors all over our country.

The three goals of 912 Super Seniors, to educate, empower and act are being accomplished through the national website and the creation of local groups.

We educate ourselves and others by reading and sharing the news articles posted on the homepage. We empower Seniors every time we post or read experiences, insight and information in the Seniors Chat and by participating in the COLA Project tracking food inflation. We act by sharing the website with our email list of friends and family, starting local Super Seniors groups, writing our elected representatives and alerting our family and friends.

We have barely begun but that beginning is everything. It is a reflection of the experienced Patriot's resolve to defend our freedoms, promote our prosperity and, as Samuel Adams wrote, to prevent our country's ruin.

We Super Seniors begin the year 2011 with heightened resolve and determination to preserve for our heirs this country we love. The remnants of past mistakes and current non stop assaults on our constitution do not deter us.

No one of us can take on all the problems, but each one of us can do something. No one can know all the answers, but each of us knows some of them.

Seniors are not afraid to ask questions and we recognize nonsense when we hear it. If it sounds too good to be true, we know it will never work. We know there is no pie in the sky, no free ride and no gain without careful planning and sacrifice.

And so we resolve to step out of our own comfort zones, to speak up in our communities and organize with others. We resolve to be an example to our children and grandchildren of what Samuel Adams wrote about in the formative years of our nation, the experienced Patriots. For if not we Seniors, then who?