Posted on 07/18/2005 10:19:10 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
Raising the age simply caused 21-year-olds to act like 18-year-olds, and 24-year-olds to act like 21-year-olds. It made it worse in the long run.
"My opinion-if you are old enough to serve your country, you're old enough to be served alcohol. JMHO."
I have mixed feelings about this issue,
I know I got my arse shot off in Nam when I was 20 in 1969 and still couldn't get a drink in a lot of places in America but I also understand the reasoning behind limiting the drinking age to 21...
Maybe the enlistment/draft age should be raised to 21 along with the drinking and smoking for that matter.
Raising the enlistment age to 21 would also give young people the time to go to college and get an education uninterrupted... just a thought...
Semper Fi,
Kelly
19 should be that age. You're out of high school and making plans for the future.
Always an interesting topic.
"Tying the drinking age to federal highway funds was a blatantly unconstitutional overstep of Federal authority."
But they got away with it didn't they?
federal idiots know this. the kids live longer, so they pay more in taxes and take out more student loans.. sure they don't get the interest payments for years to come, but the money itself is all insured, so they get that back, even with only a little interest.
Would someone please tell me: What happens between 23:55 hrs. on the night before your 21st birthday, and 00:00hrs begining the day of your birthday that all of a sudden makes you a responsible adult?
some people never become "responsible adults"
look at Draft Dodger Clintoon...
EXACTLY RIGHT!
Click here, here, and here to learn more about MADD's prohibitionist agenda.
The federal 21-to-drink defacto prohibition law is a national disgrace and needs to be repealed as long as adults aged 18 through 21 minus 1 day are in harm's way defending our liberties.
and btw, lets not forget that reeeeely responsible "adult" Ted Kennedy...
Absolutely true in my experience. The fact that you had to go out of your way to get alcohol in high school made it natural to then take that alcohol and get as screwed up as possible. I still enjoy drinking, but I gave up drinking like that shortly after turning 21, which I suspect is true for many people here.
As an aside, what is up with Wisconsin? It seems to be the norm there for guys to knock down 12 or so frosty ones a day. I had a buddy from there who kept that pace and was blown away to hear that his whole family, grandfather on down, kept it with him.
Since most people think like you and I do- the question is why did we allow idiots to make the law this way?
The answer is that people lost faith in personal responsibility, a central tenet of conservatisim. Groups like MADD didn't go after criminals like they should have, but after our freedom.
"My opinion-if you are old enough to serve your country, you're old enough to be served alcohol. JMHO."
Generally speaking (depending on the CO), this is the case.
"How about tying it to military service. Old enough to serve, old enough to drink."
Such is already the law.
The fact that an 18-year-old can't have table wine at a family gathering is outrageous. If we were libs we could scream "cultural oppression" and watch how fast the law would change.
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