Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Double Standards in American society Message-ID: <1732@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:54:04 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.1732 Posted: Tue Jul 9 15:54:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jul-85 19:18:47 EDT References: <300@tektools.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA. Lines: 28 > I can't take it any more! I'm old enough to go fight a war, pay > 200 dollars in taxes on my last pay check, and get the death > sentence, but because I'm under 21, I'm not old enough to > buy a glass of beer. > > Now (or this year) Reagan is trying to force ALL states to raise > the minimum drinking age to 21 do to pressure from special interest > groups like MADD. > > Its true that a major portion of drunk driving accidents come for > 23 year and younger folk but how can we put up with these types > of double standards? > > Bob Crane > tektronix!tektools!bobc >> It's idiotic logic like this that supports rasing the drinking limit. >> If you think paying $200 in taxes qualifies you to go somewhere, >> have a few drinks, climb behind to wheel of a self propelled vehicle >> and take off down the road I for one am glad you can't legally buy >> beer. >> >> Very few people either 18, 19, 20 or 29, 30 or 40, 50 etc have the >> brains to drink and have someone else drive. ( A cab costs to much >> money ) Let me tell you something it cost a lot more to lower a >> 4 year old into the ground that was run over by a drunk driver. >> >> The laws are not tough enough.