How young is too young working for the government?

[Trocian]

What?

He's fucking 29.

I thought this was going to be about some 14yo joining the CIA because he's a freak or something.

[Xno Kappa]

I was half-expecting Light Yagami for some reason...

[wipers]

Twenty nine is not that young. I could see it being a probably if they were eighteen maybe. Most people that are 29 should be mature and responsible.

[tyven]

i am 26 and wield the power of 10 thousand gods on capitol hill. also virtue is right and made me lol

[wipers]

Really age to me is not the most critical factor in hiring someone for a job. They could be very young and do better than someone that is older. Everyone has different levels of maturity and work ethic.

[Mizango]

Exactly, I mean look at Josh McDaniels and God Orton.

[QuePsiXI]

YOU WILL NOT TURN THIS BEAUTIFUL THREAD INTO NFL WEEK X.
Wait, idgaf. For all I care this can be derailed into the fourth thread about the baby in the stroller.

[Niiro]

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hired Adam Storch, a 29-year-old former employee in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s business intelligence unit, as the enforcement division’s first chief operating officer, according to people familiar with the decision.

The COO, who started Oct. 13, has “a great deal of background” in technology and managing processes and the pace of work, Robert Khuzami, head of enforcement, said yesterday in Washington. Storch, who worked since 2004 in a unit at Goldman Sachs that reviewed contracts and transactions for signs of fraud, will be charged with making the unit more efficient. Storch, reached by telephone at the SEC, declined to comment.

Khuzami announced the position in August as part of the unit’s biggest overhaul in three decades. He is taking steps to add front-line investigators, speed inquiries and create specialized units after the agency was faulted for missing Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion fraud.

Storch holds degrees in accounting and finance from the State University of New York at Buffalo and studied at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has certifications in accounting, fraud examination and auditing.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Storch was a senior analyst at accounting firm Deloitte & Touche and an intern at Neuberger Berman LLC, a New York-based asset management firm.

Khuzami has created specialty units of investigators and is giving people more incentive to cooperate with investigations. The five groups will investigate cases in asset management, structured products, municipal securitie

His age isn't what concerns me.

[Senoska]

You ever take notice of people's rhetorical choice in words? Almost everything the conservatives of these boards posts are not to inform, not to educate, but almost always to imply fear.

One of the most interesting things you can do is listen to the rhetorical choices people make. They chose every-single-word they typed for a specific reason. There's motivation behind what they say. See if you can find out what it is

[Absolutely Virtue]

i am 26 and wield the power of 10 thousand gods on capitol hill. also virtue is right and made me lol

h^5 tyven

Here is an article from the Post today about rappers in the DMV. It has relevance to BG because it features black people talking about things I don't understand.

washingtonpost.com

[arus2001]

On the other side, how old is too old to be in the government? I'm all for experience, but trying to reenact the good ol' days seems to have spawned the fucked up party of Republicans we have now and I'd imagine there are some Dems who aren't too far behind.

[Sirrus_Asura]

His age isn't what concerns me.

This.

[Sirrus_Asura]

You ever take notice of people's rhetorical choice in words? Almost everything the conservatives of these boards posts are not to inform, not to educate, but almost always to imply fear.

One of the most interesting things you can do is listen to the rhetorical choices people make. They chose every-single-word they typed for a specific reason. There's motivation behind what they say. See if you can find out what it is

[Absolutely Virtue]

On the other side, how old is too old to be in the government? I'm all for experience, but trying to reenact the good ol' days seems to have spawned the fucked up party of Republicans we have now and I'd imagine there are some Dems who aren't too far behind.

You're confusing the old, white douchebags you vote for and send to Washington with Federal employees who live and work here.

[Kryssan]

Hey look! Its another mutlipage political discussion thread in the works on BG~

[Xno Kappa]

I blame liberals for this hiring young employees hippie shit...

[Olo401]

I blame liberals for this hiring young employees hippie shit...

Really now?

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/im...g-30943296.jpg

[Kuya]

Goldman Sachs...

In October of last year, a Goldman Sachs Vice President, Neel Kashkari, was named by former Goldman CEO and then-Treasury Secretary Hank Pauslon to oversee the$700 billion TARP bailout. In January of this year, Tim Geithner hired a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, Mark Patterson, to be his top aide and Chief of Staff. In March, President Obama nominated Goldman Sachs executive Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures markets, even though (or "because") Gensler confessed to lax regulation during the Clinton administration over the very derivative instruments that caused the financial crisis. In April, Goldman hired as its top lobbyist Michael Paese, the top aide to Rep. Barney Frank on the House Financial Services Committee which Frank chairs.

According to ABC News in October, 2008, Goldman "spent more than $43 million dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions to cultivate friends and buy influence in Washington, D.C. since 1989" and their "bankers have been the country's top political campaign contributors this year." "They are almost in a class by themselves," said Sheila Krumholz, the executive director for the Center for Responsive Politics. As Michael Moore has been pointing out, Goldman was the number one source of funding for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign. The bailout of AIG -- which resulted in massive federal government monies to Goldman -- was engineered at a meeting between Paulson, Geithner and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Last year, Goldman paid top Obama economics adviser Larry Summers $135,000 for a one-day visit to Goldman.

Recently obtained calenders from Geithner reveal that "Goldman, Citi and JPMorgan can get Geithner on the phone several times a day if necessary, giving them an unmatched opportunity to influence policy" and "Geithner's contacts with Blankfein alone outnumber his contacts with Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee." Documents obtained by The New York Times relating to Geithner's work before becoming Treasury Secretary "show[] that he forged unusually close relationships with executives of Wall Street’s giant financial institutions."

I think that people should start worrying about this company.

[arus2001]

You're confusing the old, white douchebags you vote for and send to Washington with Federal employees who live and work here.

Eh, if they're working for them, saying such things have no effect on their judgment doesn't seem 100% possible. Depending on where they are, they'll probably want like-minded individuals, and how far that trickles down is hard to say. I know the presidency has the minimum age requirement, but how about other offices? Should more offices getting term limits be considered to keep agendas from going stagnant and maybe forcing people to think come voting time because so-and-so has been at it forever and they never hear anything bad (or good, for that matter).

Ideally, I wanna say if you're qualified for general work and have a clean record, then whatever. I guess my initial point was age doesn't always reflect maturity and it's painful seeing dudes on TV old enough to be my grandparents acting like they're on a kindergarten playground instead of getting shit done.