Congress' age debate reignites over member living in retirement home
While leadership may have been kept in the loop, several rank-and-file House members from both parties told Axios they were unaware of Granger's living situation until this weekend.
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The headline should include Granger’s DEMENTIA.
She’s been absent from work since July, living in a luxury retirement home, with dementia.
If you’re in a retirement home you shouldn’t be allowed to make laws.
The only laws you can make are laws pertaining to retirement homes.
Sounds like a conflict of interest. Make laws pertaining to retirement homes before you end up there. You deserve to feel on your own skin whether your laws were any good.
The government made laws saying you couldn't be a pilot after 65 due to age. They made laws making air traffic controllers be under 56 do to cognitive decline and having to make good sound decisions. I would argue that congress members also should need to be able to make good sound decisions in a quick fashion. I'm fine with saying no Congress members over 60. They are in mental decline and out of touch with many of their constituates at that point. The government was meant to be turned over to new members in their 30s and 40s when it was written to make a sound tomorrow for those up and coming generations. Not their 60s and 70s. When you pass up 60, be an advisor / consultant.
I will once again propose that we take the average age of death in this country and subtract 18y and make that the cutoff for voting. Disenfranchise people who won't have to live with the consequences of their vote. This doesn't solve for shitheads staying in office until their brain is tapioca, but it's one solution to the problem of a geriatric class having outsized control.
A better tactic for overall humanity to prosper is to enact ways of capping or limiting absurd levels of wealth and also providing a basic living income for everyone. A world where no one is allowed to completely fail to the point of facing death or an early grave as well as a world where no one is allowed to have so much power over others that they can literally destabilize the entire world.
That sounds great too. But let's stop elderly people from controlling us. When I reach that age, I don't plan on making decisions for everyone else.
If you build a more equitable society ... then the elderly would be less likely to be in government. A more equitable society and civilization would have more opportunities for younger people rather than the elderly holding onto power until they died.
You're still not saying anything about what should be done. "Make it more fair." Ok, how?
I proposed an action. Cut off voting at a specific age. How are you building equity?
How could someone not show up for their job for six fucking months?
I think if you are eligible for social security. You can't hold public office. Just retire