[CWOJackson]

"You are so much smarter and sophisticated than those silly old guys in the white wigs that founded the country."

If he can work an ATM he is. If he can manage an IRA electronically he is. Indeed, I wouldn't trust my economy to a bunch of dead guys who couldn't even figure out how to make the time stop flashing on their VCR.

[Cacophonous]

Since I assume you are being facetious, I will let it go. I do disagree with CP's description of them as normal men doing extraordinary things. They - Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, et alia would be extraordinary in any situation in any time. Noone else could have done what they did.

[FITZ]

If he can work an ATM he is. If he can manage an IRA electronically he is. Indeed, I wouldn't trust my economy to a bunch of dead guys who couldn't even figure out how to make the time stop flashing on their VCR.

They also had a different definition of wealth back then. Today that whiz-kid with the VCR probably thinks he's wealthy because he's got all the latest electronics but hasn't tried to buy a house, lives paycheck to paycheck, "invests" his money in a $25,000 car, and is so far in debt, he may never get out.