Comments on: Minimum age limits

By: JLM

JLM — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:53 +0000

I am 40 years old , the mid way point in life. I think that both young and old have much to offer but you will not see the point of the other side. I think what this young man was meaning to say was that older people should think of more then just there vain ambitions . Wile you think you know what it is like to be young today you do not have a clue.
It should not keep an older person from running for office or voting but it should guide there choices. If everyone who is in charge is twice my age and I am in midlife, its not going to be so great that nobody younger could get the needed time in the job to do as well as the older people have done.
On the flip side, at 21 you have your whole life ahead of you. There are things you can do now like have kids or be a pro ball player, that people as young as me have a hard time pulling off. You can wait 5 more years. It’s not likely to kill you and you will be glad you did things in the correct season of life.
If you think you are sick of this Gen Y , I have had 20 more years of it then you have. I still get BB who tell me I am a greedy slacker with no work ethic that just wants them to give me everything for free. No, I just had the dumb luck of being born when The Commons you enjoyed for free started to be seen as an entitlement of the welfare state. How come it was a perk for you to have decent roads or a park to take a walk in but I am a bum because I ask you to use the rules you learned in scouts, leave your area in the condition you found it in.

By: BC Kenai

BC Kenai — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:56:35 +0000

Hummm….Guess that ALL is in the eye of the beholder, as it were. It would seem that the writer thinks that only the young have the wisdom and maturity to do what is prudent, borne of the newness of their experience and conviction. Certainly, there are those of youth that DO have a wisdom beyond their years just as those of age that still have much to offer. Transversly, there are those who should never be in that position – only born of a political machine, personality, or just luck.

Let’s not throw the towel in yet for the older leaders. Political euthanasia is not the answer. I am, however, in favor of term limits for all Congress.

By: joe

joe — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:41:38 +0000

i agree with the author. I am sick and tired of the people in congress that have been there all ” My Life”. I am not happy with their crap and they need to go. They have gotten rich and need to retire their old addled mind to the front porch, or other endeavors cause they sure can’t seem to run this country as it was originally meant to by via our constitution.

By: Wolfe_Tone

Wolfe_Tone — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:56:26 +0000

As I read this commentary, I could almost feel brain cells dying.

Assuming they had any working gray matter to begin with, I submit that most readers killed innumerable brain cells wasting the couple minutes it took to read this inanity through to the end.

I’d be interested in Mr. Davis’ opinion on this, since he’ll be 69 years old on his birthday this month. Perhaps you should ban him from posting his opinion, as well (actually, having read some of his posts, you MAY have a point).

Mr. Nicks, in keeping with your suggestion that “old folks” shouldn’t be allowed to run for office, perhaps a other “maximum age” rules are in order:

I suggest that the “no old folks running” rule be expanded to “no old folks voting” as well.

Then it will be completely the decision of the “young ‘uns.”

By the way – for whom did you vote in the last presidential election?

I’m assuming it was Barack Obama… since Republican Senator McCain and Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr were both far too old for your liking.