Blog 3890 – 07.17.2026

Before I Forge, Here’s a Thought

The old guys are never going to vote for term limits or a maximum age requirement so we the people should show them how to fix the problem. Older folks (I am seventy-five going on a hundred) like to say to younger folks, “I have forgotten more than you will ever know.” Perhaps that is part of the problem. We have forgotten how we once believed that you could never trust anyone over thirty.

Why on earth would anyone in their right mind think it is a great idea to let people who should be retired run the country. The old adage is that they who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. When I was ten years old the oldest President we had ever elected had turned the White House over to the youngest President that we had ever elected. JFK wanted to change things. He announced that he was bringing the American military advisers to South Vietnam home and ending our involvement in that war. A month later he lay dead in Dallas, Texas, the home of several companies in the military industrial complex that his predecessor had warned us about in his last speech.

John F. Kennedy announced in his inaugural speech, that I watched as a wide-eyed ten years old boy that, “ The torch has been passed to a new generation.” It is high time we started sending younger people to do the job of government. The corruption and ineptitude of the current government has never before been so obvious even to an old guy like me.

I recently wrote a blog entitled James Talarico for Texas. He is a young man running for the U.S. Senate. I have not had as much hope for politics since I was that ten year old boy excited about a better future for myself and my country. I hope Talarico wins in November and makes such a difference in the Senate that perhaps he or some other young man or woman will soon be elected President and with a younger Congress and Judiciary make some much needed changes.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White