Old Man River…
As of January 27, 2011 there are three senators in their 80s, 18 in their 70s, 37 in their 60’s, 31 in their 50s, and only 12 that are under the age of 40 years of age.
I’m speaking as a person in my 60’s, but, these old guys in the senate are OLD! Moreover, they are old and OUT OF TOUCH!
At my age, I have problems keeping up with new technology that changes daily, yet alone the social network that propels it. We need young fresh innovative people in office, not these died in the wool career politicians that have no idea what a Facebook page is, yet alone Snype.
And here we have an electorate whose average age is 61 years old.
These guys are so old that when they fart they pass dust!
What brought this to mind was watching the State of the Union Address earlier this week and looking on a sea of old, worn out (some appearing to have drunk to much) senators and representatives of the people, who have no business representing anyone, other than the retirement community that they should be settled in.
We wonder why Washington is so out of touch with us until we begin to look more closely at who is representing us, and, unless you can’t do the math, it’s electorate from the 20th century who doesn’t understand today’s electronic media. (In fact, some of them are still amazed by the invention of the light bulb!)
When the “founding fathers” formed the new nation, George Washington was 44, Thomas Jefferson was 33 and John Adams was 41. Now one might argue that people didn’t live as long as they do now. The exception was Ben Franken who was 71 and entertaining women of pleasure when in Paris! But the simple fact is the founding fathers were by average under 40 years, unlike today where we have an out of touch congress so obsessed by their own personal gains and profits that they have totally neglected the popular.
I am a baby boomer, and as such we have a huge clout in how Social Security and Medicare is managed. We are all over 60.
But I have to tell you, I don’t think it’s a good idea that the country be governed by a bunch of people my age or older managing the affairs of the younger generation.
They need their own representation. I do not believe that the founding fathers ever thought that one would ever hold a political office more than a few years, as it was their view that this was akin to jury duty; something you did for your country and then moved on.
Clearly, by the looks of the Senate, and to a lesser degree, the House of Representatives, we have career “old fogies” that are not in touch with the modern American dream, nor the mandate of our founding fathers who established them.
If ever there is a time for total over-haul of the people that represent us, it’s now!
Where’s Tomas Jefferson when you need him? HA!
As of January 27, 2011 there are three senators in their 80s, 18 in their 70s, 37 in their 60’s, 31 in their 50s, and only 12 that are under the age of 40 years of age.
I’m speaking as a person in my 60’s, but, these old guys in the senate are OLD! Moreover, they are old and OUT OF TOUCH!
At my age, I have problems keeping up with new technology that changes daily, yet alone the social network that propels it. We need young fresh innovative people in office, not these died in the wool career politicians that have no idea what a Facebook page is, yet alone Snype.
And here we have an electorate whose average age is 61 years old.
These guys are so old that when they fart they pass dust!
What brought this to mind was watching the State of the Union Address earlier this week and looking on a sea of old, worn out (some appearing to have drunk to much) senators and representatives of the people, who have no business representing anyone, other than the retirement community that they should be settled in.
We wonder why Washington is so out of touch with us until we begin to look more closely at who is representing us, and, unless you can’t do the math, it’s electorate from the 20th century who doesn’t understand today’s electronic media. (In fact, some of them are still amazed by the invention of the light bulb!)
When the “founding fathers” formed the new nation, George Washington was 44, Thomas Jefferson was 33 and John Adams was 41. Now one might argue that people didn’t live as long as they do now. The exception was Ben Franken who was 71 and entertaining women of pleasure when in Paris! But the simple fact is the founding fathers were by average under 40 years, unlike today where we have an out of touch congress so obsessed by their own personal gains and profits that they have totally neglected the popular.
I am a baby boomer, and as such we have a huge clout in how Social Security and Medicare is managed. We are all over 60.
But I have to tell you, I don’t think it’s a good idea that the country be governed by a bunch of people my age or older managing the affairs of the younger generation.
They need their own representation. I do not believe that the founding fathers ever thought that one would ever hold a political office more than a few years, as it was their view that this was akin to jury duty; something you did for your country and then moved on.
Clearly, by the looks of the Senate, and to a lesser degree, the House of Representatives, we have career “old fogies” that are not in touch with the modern American dream, nor the mandate of our founding fathers who established them.
If ever there is a time for total over-haul of the people that represent us, it’s now!
Where’s Tomas Jefferson when you need him? HA!
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