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To: Nifster
Were you drafted or did you enlist?

NROTC Regular program. I enlisted.

You and I both know that service men routinely are served liquor at facilities on base.

How is that relevant?

The arguments one presents about other countries does not phase me in the least ( unless of course you want to become that other country). You sure get really angry when someone suggests that there are reasons that the drinking age should stay 21. Interesting.

It is a matter of personal liberty that has been taken away due to federal mandates and blackmail. The rest of the world allows access to those 18 and over. Does that make us exceptional? Why are American 18 year olds less trustworth than those in Australia, the UK, Belgium, Germany, UK, the Netherlands, etc.?

The idea that drinking makes you an ‘adult’ or is somehow good for minds that are still forming neural connections does not compute as logical.

And who should make that decision for you? The government or yourself? You sound like Bloomberg and Michelle Obama who want to decide what is good for us whether it is salt or a Big Gulp. Now you are worried about neural connections. LOL.

If you want the US to be so much more like Europe in drinking laws then logically you should be very happy that we are becoming more like Europe in our health care laws. Don’t bother to respond I don’t want you to blow another gasket

No I have lived a total of 13 years in five European countries. I don't support Obamacare nor do I support federal mandates and blackmail that resulted in 21 being the national drinking age. How can anyone who calls themselves a conservative support such nonsense?

The US joins Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Fiji, and Palau as the only countries in the world where 21 is the legal drinking age.

At age 18 you can be drafted, vote, and be tried as an adult in court. The idea that you must be 21 to buy a drink is nonsense. It should be changed.

70 posted on 07/03/2012 9:06:21 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

We have an all volunteer armed service and have since 1973. Your ‘drafted’ argument is pointless.

You have devolved this discussion into a rant about libertarian issues for which I have no taste.

You don’t like the 21 year old age for drinking . So what? Scream and yell and kick all you want. Have we been loosing freedom left and right since our founding? Yes indeed. Because you and I disagree on the drinking age let’s not make silly arguments use silly arguments such as you did at the end of your rant.

Your arguments really lack logic. I am done. rant all you want.


72 posted on 07/03/2012 10:54:57 AM PDT by Nifster
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