OPINION: Stop making sweeping, disparaging statements about all senior citizens because age is just a number, BrettArends writes.
In case you’ve been hiking in the wilderness in recent weeks, you can’t have missed the growing whisper campaign against President Biden. It apparently now includes a significant number of Democrats. This has extended to several articles over the weekend.
Hedge fund tycoon Leon Cooperman was on Bloomberg radio Monday morning, talking wisely, quickly and at great length about the markets, the economy, and the political scene.Warren Buffett is 91 and still running the seventh most valuable company in the world. He was already 78 during the 2008 financial crisis, when he struck brilliant deals with Bank of America BAC, -0.65% and Goldman Sachs GS, -0.80%. Charlie Munger, his vice chairman and Svengali, is 98.
For that matter, Paul McCartney is 80 and Mick Jagger is about to turn 79 and both are still going strong. Neither is running the federal government, of course, but then the president doesn’t have to perform on stage for several hours at a time. Dismissing someone solely based on their age does a terrible disservice to all those who are in their senior years and still going strong. There is a reason “ageism” is illegal, even if the law is honored more in the breach than the observance.
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