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re: Will America ever come out of the dark ages and lower the drinking age?
Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:47 am to heartbreakTiger
Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:47 am to heartbreakTiger
It should be raised to 25. People younger than that drunk are obnoxious.
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Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:48 am to TreyAnastasio
might be the first post of yours that rg would ever like
Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:50 am to heartbreakTiger
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well the 551 was just in la. no more cigs on the way to class
Arkansas did this in 2009. All the neighbors off campus bitching about butts now.
students butts
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 11:54 am
Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:51 am to heartbreakTiger
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might be the first post of yours that rg would ever like
I take it back then
Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:57 am to Person of interest
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If your old enough to serve in the armed forces and vote you should be able to have a fricking drink.
18 year olds should not be allowed to vote.
It was a Jimmy Carter ploy, to get more liberal votes because young people are typically more liberal than older people who have matured enough to realize how fricked-up liberalism truly is.
18 year olds do not have a clue, for the most part, what this world is about.
As I posted earlier though ... military personnel should be allowed to drink (and vote) at the age of 18.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 11:59 am to heartbreakTiger
I don't see why everyone is in such a fuss about lowering the drinking age. It's a 3 year difference, and very few people actually wait until they are 21 to start drinking. I know people use the argument "If they're old enough to go to war then they're old enough to drink". OK..... Most 18 year old aren't really that mature to handle their alcohol. Hell I know a few 21 year olds who aren't that mature yet.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:00 pm to scrooster
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It was a Jimmy Carter ploy, to get more liberal votes because young people are typically more liberal than older people who have matured enough to realize how fricked-up liberalism truly is.
Nixon was president it was in response to 18 yo being drafted to conflicts they had no vote on.
18 n dumb?
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:01 pm to scrooster
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18 year olds should not be allowed to vote.
It was a Jimmy Carter ploy, to get more liberal votes because young people are typically more liberal than older people who have matured enough to realize how fricked-up liberalism truly is.
You absolutely don't know what you are talking about. Jimmy Carter had nothing to do with the change of voter age.
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military personnel should be allowed to drink (and vote) at the age of 18.
Sorry there Heinlein, that's not the way it works.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:03 pm to scrooster
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The only 18 years olds that should be able to drink legally are soldiers ... on post.
^^^^^this.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:05 pm to heartbreakTiger
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why not let the states decide what is proper on a social issue?
When I lived in Lafayette some years ago my 18yo sister was of legal age to drink. But I was told that law was changed by the state in order to get more federal money for their shitty highways.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:06 pm to Carolina Tide
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The only 18 years olds that should be able to drink legally are soldiers ... on post.
Yea that doesn't make any sense at all. In fact they make some of the worse bar patrons.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:07 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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But I was told that law was changed by the state in order to get more federal money for their shitty highways.
MADD got on a tear in the 80's pressuring the Federal Government to raise the drinking age. The only way the Feds could do it was tying federal highway funds to a demand that states have to raise their drinking age. If I'm not mistaken, Louisiana was the last hold out.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:08 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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Yea that doesn't make any sense at all. In fact they make some of the worse bar patrons.
Having been a young soldier, I can vouch for that statement.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:09 pm to AUCatfish
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If I'm not mistaken, Louisiana was the last hold out.
No doubt.. Driving from Houston to Mississippi you could be blindfolded in the trunk of a car and tell where Louisiana began and ended.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:14 pm to heartbreakTiger
The issue is America doesn't have what it takes to wait that out. MADD will ruin it because of stats of 18 year olds dying. Lowering the drinking age will require a culture change. Which will take at least 10 years.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:15 pm to heartbreakTiger
Get rid of any federal age limit on alcohol.
Let the states decide, ideally they should scrap any age limit too.
For those complaining about having drunk teenagers in bars, just use public pressure to get bars to only serve those over 21 or whatever.
Let the states decide, ideally they should scrap any age limit too.
For those complaining about having drunk teenagers in bars, just use public pressure to get bars to only serve those over 21 or whatever.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:21 pm to heartbreakTiger
I felt dumber after reading the OP.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:27 pm to heartbreakTiger
No. Too much of a renvue generator for the out of control, big brother, government liberals are constructing.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:33 pm to heartbreakTiger
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We still defied them somewhat with a few loop holes and things such as being able to drink when you are 18 if you are with a relative that is 21 or over
surprisingly a lot of states have this
Posted on 8/1/14 at 12:47 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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Yea that doesn't make any sense at all. In fact they make some of the worse bar patrons.
They've earned the right ... and that is why I typed, "on post," where the MPs can handle things if they get rowdy.
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