8. I guess you are joking regarding the 8 million plus combined age...
or you do different math than me. I love Senator Kennedy so I hope he is around for a long time but you do have a point. The most ridiculous was Strom Thurmond who near the end had to have someone raise his arm for him to vote. With age comes wisdom, but we do need some new blood in congress. Some of the young republicans scare me as much as the old ones, so that's a problem.
I am sort of sick to always being ruled by these old WW2 guys. Like Reagan they seem to think a bigger tank will fix every thing. Some new thinking would be great.
10. It's only the leadership that is realy really old.
The majority of congresspeople are Boomers, though the leadership is dominated by Silent/Beatnik generation folks like Pelosi and Reid. I read on another forum that 2012 should be the peak of Boomer power in Congress, at which point they will start giving way to a surge of GenXers.
11. It has a bigger problem in that it has a combined personal
income larger than the national debt. I don't mind age as much as I mind the classism that the economic policy that has been created by a bunch of very rich people over the past few years.
13. So experience to you is worth less than ... what? Just youth?
I agree that age can debilitate - Thurmond is the perfect example - but this blanket cry that everyone in Congress is just *too old* and therefore need to be swept away rubs me the wrong way. Plenty of good reasons to vote someone out of their office; many decades of life experience just doesn't seem to be a prudent one.
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