(More on topic, I do agree with you. Congressmen who haven't even raised a child in the last 25 years, let alone been one, tend not to have the most up to date notions of how modern technology impacts the life and raising of a child. Having some younger voices to balance them out would be a good thing.)
What we need is to elect (to Congress) a bunch of 25 year olds who are young enough to be technologically brillient and inexperienced enough not to be "bought" by corporate america.
That would be a pipe dream though... smart *and* moral *and* technologically savvy? Keep dreaming... Not to mention unconstitutional, unfortunately.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
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See, this is why I rarely post, I'm just not very good at it :)
My brain farted out on the House, I was just thinking about the Senate since that's what the article was about.
The quote was from the United States Constitution.
Sorry for the confusion!
(More on topic, I do agree with you. Congressmen who haven't even raised a child in the last 25 years, let alone been one, tend not to have the most up to date notions of how modern technology impacts the life and raising of a child. Having some younger voices to balance them out would be a good thing.)
That would be a pipe dream though... smart *and* moral *and* technologically savvy? Keep dreaming... Not to mention unconstitutional, unfortunately.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
If only we citizens could band together and give politicians large amounts of money, so that they would work in our best interests.
We've already got that. They call it taxes. Doesn't seem to work too well, sadly.