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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: "A Deliberate Act of Sabotage"
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On 29/10/2024 9:40 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:07:19 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/27/2024 6:14 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:46:22 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/27/2024 2:02 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:49:40 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/27/2024 8:03 AM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>>> This could just be the last election.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3ixwA2UVY
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The US fruit-picking and meat-packing industry will just replace their
>>>>>> illegal immigrant labor with 12 year olds it's OK. Former illegal
>>>>>> immigrant Musk has never had a problem with child labor in his EV supply
>>>>>> chain so far
>>>>>
>>>>> Or replace the labor with Ivy League liberal arts graduates. People
>>>>> need to eat so the market aways adjusts.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How many Ivy League liberal arts graduates at this point in history do
>>>> you figure really need to work for a living in the first place? Or Ivy
>>>> League graduates, period?
>>>>
>>>> Remember Jean Harlow in "Suzy": "Don't you worry about me; blondes never
>>>> go broke. Being a brunette, you wouldn't understand that."
>>>>
>>>> Nobody goes to an Ivy to go broke. Not even the basket-weaving majors
>>> >from the few destitute families that manage to make it there. Networking 
>>>> is the biggest advantage of schools like that and like Ivy graduate DJT
>>>> must know well enough you're your own "too big to fail" brand once you
>>>> have an Ivy degree in hand, probably why he likes bringing it up so much.
>>>
>>> You sound like the New York Times. All Trump, all the time.
>>>
>>
>> He's certainly a unique character.
>>
>> At age 80 that should probably be something of a matter of concern for
>> the Republican party, much less the NYT's bottom line.
> 
> There is a minimum age requirement for a President. There should be a
> max too. Either party!

Brain development follows a fairly predictable path. Minimum age limits 
make sense. Brain degeneration is old age is a lot less predictable, if 
it happens at all, and an arbitrary maximum age limit wouldn't make a 
lot of sense. Some sort of intellectual competence test might make 
sense, but politicians aren't likely to set up a good one.

> Senate and House, ditto. And term limits.
> 
> A min age for any political position would help elect people who had a
> real job once in their lives.

But then you have to define what you mean by a "real job". You seem to 
have a particular admiration for builder, plumbers and motor mechanics 
none of which offer a particularly good preparation for a political 
career. Trump had a real job as a real estate developer, and was 
responsible for a string of bankruptcies, which should have marked him 
as dangerously irresponsible from then on. Banks certainly stopped 
lending him money at that point.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney