Posted on 07/02/2012 5:20:32 PM PDT by george76
much less the 26 yr old 'child' clause of deathcare...
...If you can vote and serve our country in the military at 18, you should be able to get an alcoholic drink
You know I agree.
Its just that I don’t agree with teenagers drinking OR serving in the military - a teen not voting or drinking doesn’t bother me at all, but the hypocrisy that you pointed out is certainly valid.
Except in times of war the age for full time Service in the Military should really be 21.
Perhaps some conditional or reserve service and training in support roles could be provided for between 18 - 21.
I remember the governor of Connecticut, a handsome woman named Ella Grasso, who was one of the last (perhaps the last) holdout against the feds forcing the state to increase the drinking age. She said that someone coming home from the military deserved a cold beer. Eventually, the state folded.
Just part of the incremental growth of the federal government. It’s actually one of the incidents that had led me to conservatism and Constitutionalism; I guess taking beer away from a 19-year-old can do that.
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