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This is why there should be term limits or at least age limits. Maybe have 80 be the max and if you turn 80 during a term, it has to be your last and you have to retire when it's over.
I'm hoping the old coot gets the boot next fall and the presidential candidate that lives in northern Florida can make some headway in the next few months.
Some of these congressman and senators are practically buying their seats on Capitol Hill .
Our entire election process is a trainwreck. We need to have about a six-week campaign period at the most, and I think every incumbent should be challenged in a primary for their seat because they need to prove they've earned it every time they go up for reelection.
Unfortunately, that’s not how our system works, so it’s up to the voters to not constantly return the same people to Washington over and over. To do that they'd have to be willing to elect the challenger from the other party, and no one is willing to do that.
That's how we end up with Feinstein, Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell, Trump, and Biden, among others.
I totally agree. Apparently Pelosi’s daughter has been Feinstein’s “ caregiver” this year . I saw that in one news report earlier this year when she returned to the Capitol after her long absence .
I don’t think an old person should have the responsibility of being president either . Trump and Biden are both too old and both showing cognitive problems . It’s been reported that Reagan had cognitive issues as well when he was still in office .
@scampie. It’s not terrible . They should step down. If anyone of us could not do our job properly, that’s what would be asked of us.
Some people want the retirement age ( for social security ) raised again . That’s problematic. Just because people live longer does not mean they are automatically capable of doing their job any longer . Not everyone sits at a desk . What about those that do a more physical job , for example construction work .
Even though we have these age discrimination laws, sometimes enough is enough. I remember when Justice Thurgood Marshall retired. Someone asked him during an interview why he was retiring. He answered; Because I'm old.
When my grandparents were living, they died at reasonable ages in their seventies. Even the formula created for social security was created on the life expectancy of around seventy-two years old give or add a few years, and this was about fify years ago. Now with all of the medications, some seniors are tired of living.
One teacher shared years ago about her mother who had terminal cancer and was undergoing cancer treatment in the hospital. When she went back to visit, her mother had thrown all of her medicine in the trash can. She said that she was done living.
The body gets tired.
I don't feel Thrump or Biden should be candidates. Trump is 77 and Biden 80! With Biden they have been saying there is a cognitive problem. At 80 there has to be some cognitive decline. You should not be able to run for president over 70. For Congress, retirement at 70. The Spreme court Judges, no more till death. If they start showing signs of cognitive decline, they retire.
If the people that worked around these people would step up and tell these people to retire , maybe I wouldn’t have these thoughts .
As for age, I'm not willing to back a cutoff. Some 50 year olds are unfit to hold public office. I do believe that when someone clearly is no longer capable of performing an important job, their teammates should have the courage to tell them that it's time they retire or act to put them out to pasture.
I LIVE (and own) in SF and have for more than 40 years. Along with all you say a building bought at 412,000 is now estimated more than 2 million; home down the block sold for 8.7 million recently, and old Mark Z. is just up the hill from me (a STEEP hill; too high to carry any Matua Sauvignon Blanc to share with him).
So with all you say, we have no end of very wealthy waiting in line to buy here and pay a 20,000 a month mortgage.
Yes, it's all a bit schizophrenic, I assure you, and I am no fan of our current very progressive Mayor. No regular citizen type knows the City better than I do. Nor its politics.
As to the GENERAL decay across big cities in our country I am afraid we are not alone. Have you read about the "smash and grabs" in the UK which mirror our own.
With global changes the immigration will continue to worsen in ALL countries around the world, with populations moving from South to North. This has been happening for decades and will happen now with increasing rapidity. Has happened before and has never historically been very pretty at all.
Given I have now unleashed the whole global warming thing (can vaccines and masks be far behind, hee hee) I have to say that when we go all political on AC I get real bored with us; so will bow out of this thread and leave it to y'all while I wade through the feces off to Trader Joe.
All take care; see you on the other threads.
You have people strung out on tranq, people defecating in the streets, and worse.
San Francisco used to be a beautiful city and now it is just a decaying mass of homelessness and drug addiction.
The leadership there and their policies are 100% responsible for what is happening there.
You didn't hear a peep about it from Feinstein or Pelosi or any of the other "leaders" in Washington or from the local government, and it seems policies are in place to make sure things don't change there anytime soon.
Many business owners and San Franciscoians are really upset about what their city has turned into.
All that said, a very, very sad and heartbreaking end for a woman who, due to my being a San Franciscan, was a personal hero to me, and to many in my city. Her ability to work across the aisle alone made her a living fossil.
Hail the traveler.