Jack’s Winning Words 5/22/19 “The old believe everything.  The middle-aged suspect everything.  The young know everything.”  (Oscar Wilde)  Jay Leno got laughs when he asked some adults civics questions.  Jay:  “Who elects Congress?”  Ans: “The President.”  Jay:  “How many stars on the flag?”  Ans:: “32?”  There’s discussion about lowering the Federal voting age to 16.  What should be the determining factor when it comes to voting?  If Oscar W is right, each age has its problems.   ;-)  Jack FROM WALMART REV:  Perhaps a refresher course reminding us why the current age was selected in the first place might help know if it should be changed today?! I've never given it a challenging thought myself?! 0;-)===JACK:  I think that there's room for all of us in the world and in the Church, too.  More and more, I see politics as a manipulating of the mind.  Some accuse accuse religion of the same thing...but, isn't that what education is all about?  The mind was created for thinking.  As a pastor I've always tried to get people to "think" about what they believe...and to see that there's a place for faith, too.  A professor once taught me, "You can't find God at the end of a logical syllogism." FROM GUSTIE MARLYS:  I don’t think that is funny at all.  I think it is pretty sad! ===JACK:   ...and those were only two out several that I could have used.  But, we don't always  have the best candidates to choose from, do we? ===GM:  We sure don’t.  They seem to be in it for themselves and not the people they represent.  But we keep on reelecting them!  ===JACK:  Well, you do have Senator Amy!GM:  True.  I didn’t vote for her.  You probably knew that.===JACK:  I just wanted to pull your chain.===GM:  She may be our next President.===JACK:  As Lou once said, "She's got spunk!"---GM;  That she does.  You know that her Dad became a Lutheran and got sober.  He had been born and raised a Catholic.  Just came from a Bell Choir picnic.  We had a “jello” contest!  It was fun.  Lots of us made jello.  It may turn into an annual event!  Ha!  I have friends who traveled with Amy's father, Jim Klobuchar on a couple of bike trips and also climbed Kilimanjaro with him.  I don’t think they even knew he had an alcohol problem at the time.   FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  legal majority... 18. everything should be 18. if you are old enuf to be drafted, you can vote, smoke, drink, own guns.===JACK:  In 1971 President Nixon signed the 26th Amendment to lower the voting age  from 21 to 18.  How old were you at that time? FROM BLAZING OAKS:  HA! Good old Oscar Wilde...I think the old are pretty discerning, and question a lot!  18 is probably as low as the voting age should get, tho I worked for Thomas Dewey as a teen-ager. Came to respect his opponent much more (Truman) in later years!  I've always voted, every election, but have sometimes felt like the person (Leno?) who said, "If God wanted us to vote, he should have given us candidates..."Still, the popular vote is crucial to our governing!===JACK:  After winning the Revolution, the country decided it didn't want a king.  WW 2 was fought to say: "We don't want a dictator, wither."   FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL:  Jack,  i read recently that 30 million Americans can only read at the 2nd or 3rd grade level.  also,  the average American now reads at about the 10th grade level.  not good signs for a democracy that needs an educated electorate for it to work well. ===JACK:  ...and just because people can read does not mean that they can think (discern).   FROM VW MARY:  Scary stuff.....===JACK:  I wonder what would happen if Jay Leno interviewed people (even church members) about things religious. FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  I couldn’t wait to vote.  But I really can’t say if 16 year olds are able to realize what the issues when voting.  It’s said the brain in not fully developed until age 21 or 22.  However having a brain and using it are two different things!===JACK:  I believe that the same things were said before the voting age was lowered fro 21 to 18.  An official in Green Bay, WI, was opposed to lowering the voting age , because "most young people lean Democrat."