[allmost]

Facebook, myspace, every single email, should be suspect. If it's not then you are an idiot.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“the current generation of policymaker’s lack of technological understanding.”

If they know how to walk into the same room as a computer, they already have a better understanding of technology than they do of finances and debt management.

[BitWielder1]

U.S. Gov Official: Current Generation of Policymakers Lack Understanding

There, fixed it.

[fishtank]

Here's a TRUE STORY.

Years ago, I was working as an intern on Capitol Hill for the House Science and Technology Committee.

I was asked to go over to a joint hearing with the House and the Senate on the Love Canal issues.

Halfway through, someone told me that I had to go out into the hearing room, and walk VERY quietly behind the senators and congressmen, and then sit down behind "Senator Foghorn", since he had a question.

So, I did it, and sat in a chair behind "Sen. Foghorn".

He then leaned back and very quietly asked me to tell him how to convert parts per billion of a chemical into parts per million of a chemical.

NO JOKE.

TRUE STORY.

[BitWielder1]

A simple competence hearing and American Civics 101 for all elected officials, is that really asking too much?