Valuetainment - October 03, 2022


How Old Is Too Old？ PBD Explains Why Government Officials Should Have An Age Limit


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

194.78026

Word count

913

Sentence count

54

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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The average age of a member of Congress in America today is 60 years old. Why should that be the average for a politician? And why should the average age for a general in the military be 62 years old before they are required to retire?

Transcript

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00:00:00.120 What do you think is the average age of a member of Congress is today?
00:00:03.060 What would you say? 45? 50? 52? 55?
00:00:06.320 What would you say the age is?
00:00:07.740 When I saw this data, I was a little bit concerned and I said,
00:00:10.560 you know what, I want to talk about this to see if you feel the way I do about this.
00:00:14.840 And by the way, when I make my argument to you, if you agree with it,
00:00:17.420 give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel, so let's get right into it.
00:00:20.720 Do you know today, only 17% of Americans are above 65 years old.
00:00:25.140 The average age of an American today is 38.6 years old.
00:00:29.160 38.6, but the average age of a member of Congress today is 60.
00:00:34.260 60 years old. I sat there and I said, is 60 the average?
00:00:38.100 Should we have somebody at that age serving in the member of Congress?
00:00:41.920 I said, okay, in America, a president, the president of the United States,
00:00:46.740 the other title for the president is commander in chief, which means what?
00:00:50.440 The leader of our military, right?
00:00:52.760 Should there be an age to the military leaders?
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00:02:13.340 When I was in the military, there was a certain age that you couldn't join the army, right?
00:02:17.620 And those laws, those numbers are out there.
00:02:19.980 So we looked it up right now, and here's what we found out.
00:02:22.320 Do you know what is the oldest you can be in the military
00:02:24.960 before they force you to be retired, ready?
00:02:27.580 If you're a non-general in the military,
00:02:32.100 you're forced to retire at 62 years old.
00:02:35.520 Now, if you're an 09 or an 010, which is a three-star general, I believe,
00:02:41.200 or a four-star general, you get to stay, if you get an approval,
00:02:45.120 until 64, 66.
00:02:47.220 But if you want to stay until 68,
00:02:49.840 you have to get an approval from Secretary of Defense
00:02:52.500 or the President of the United States, which rarely happens.
00:02:56.680 And that 68 maximum age is what we're talking about.
00:03:00.080 So now, I said, okay, how old was Obama when he was President?
00:03:04.660 47.
00:03:05.480 He became a Senator at 43.
00:03:07.360 Clinton was 46.
00:03:08.740 Trump was 69.
00:03:10.060 Biden was 78.
00:03:11.220 He's 79, about to be 80.
00:03:13.100 That's old, if you think about it.
00:03:14.580 And I'm not saying, hey, you know, you're calling these people.
00:03:17.280 I'm not saying that.
00:03:17.980 All I'm saying is the following.
00:03:19.720 If the average age of Congress is 60,
00:03:22.720 yet the military forces people to retire by 62 years old,
00:03:26.040 why aren't we forcing anybody that's 62 years old or higher to retire today?
00:03:31.040 Go play a role of a consultant.
00:03:32.840 Go play a role of an advisor.
00:03:34.060 But America is young, it's 38.4,
00:03:37.280 and they need the representation to be a little bit more closer to them
00:03:40.680 so they can relate to them.
00:03:42.160 Yes, a good age gap is good.
00:03:43.800 Maybe 48.4 is a good average.
00:03:46.180 Maybe 52 is a good average if America's 38.4.
00:03:49.580 But 60 years old means we got people in their 70s
00:03:53.400 that are in Congress today.
00:03:56.420 Why?
00:03:57.200 If military forces you to retire,
00:03:59.280 why shouldn't we be forcing congressmen and women 1.00
00:04:02.400 who have served their time to retire?
00:04:04.280 This ain't even term limits, by the way,
00:04:05.660 although I'm, you know, for having term limits in place
00:04:07.880 where these guys cannot be there for 30, 40 years.
00:04:09.820 This is purely about you've done your service,
00:04:12.540 you've reached an age, thank you for your service,
00:04:14.840 here's a retirement check,
00:04:16.240 go become a consultant,
00:04:17.620 go sit on a board,
00:04:18.900 go do a bunch of different,
00:04:19.700 you're going to make more money anyways,
00:04:21.260 maybe, some of you make more money staying in Congress,
00:04:23.220 but you're going to make more money anyways.
00:04:25.040 Let's decrease the age from 60 to 55 to 50, 0.98
00:04:29.220 maybe to 48.
00:04:30.100 Now, I may be delusional,
00:04:31.720 I may be wrong.
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00:04:40.380 about my argument.