前不久，某乡在精简村级基层干部时，采用了“按年龄一刀切”的办法，规定，凡是在1942年12月底以前出生的在职干部，一律免去其职务。笔者认为，这种做法实在欠妥。现在，有些地方的村级干部人数多而年龄老化，不但加重了农民负担，而且有碍于农村经济的迅速发展。对村级干部 Not long ago, while using a “one size fits all” policy, one township, while streamlining grassroots cadres at the village level, stipulated that all active cadres born before the end of December 1942 should be exempt from their posts. In my opinion, this approach is really defective. Nowadays, the fact that the number of village-level cadres in some places are aging at an advanced age has not only aggravated the burden on farmers but also hindered the rapid development of the rural economy. To village level cadres