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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Double Standards in American society
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:54:04 EDT
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> 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.