When Is America’s Government Going To Stop Being A Nursing Home?
Sometimes older means wiser, but at risk of sounding like a toxic “ageist,” Americans really need to view our elderly political class through a more skeptical lens. A nation likened to a nursing home warns of “late-stage republic” and is a major liability, not only on the global stage, but for the best outcomes of its own people.
Would you hire an attorney if he or she were older than 75? What about an accountant? Whether a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a practicing lawyer, many firms in America have mandatory retirement ages because, as a person ages, they do genuinely run the risk of losing some amount of mental functioning. Now, while some would say that mandating a specific age for retirement unfairly discriminates based on an immutable characteristic, like race or sex, when someone chooses to work into old age they could cause issues for their employers (and employees).