Drinking Age

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The federal 21 drinking age must be abolished, because it's pretty clear it doesn't do any good. In fact, it encourages people under 21 to drink.

You know America is the ONLY[/i] developed nation where it's as high as 21?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I had a teacher who visited Germany, and he said the McDonald's restaurants there serve big mugs of beer to little kids.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I know some stupid 30-year-olds who I wouldn't go near with a beer in their hand.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

On the Fourth of July, a young woman who was 19 crashed her car into a stone wall on my street. If I had been riding my bike down the roadway at the time, she could have very easily killed me.

The cops arrested her for DUI.

I would bet that this incident wouldn't have occurred at all if not for the 21 drinking age. The driver of the car probably felt encouraged to drink just because it was illegal for her to do so.

If I had been injured, I would have sued the driver of the car as well as MADD for helping to get the 21 drinking age passed.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Uh, I'd hate to be the one to break this to you, but it was Reagan who established the 21 drinking age.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

McDonalds does serve beer in Germany, but in paper cups. Hardly anybody ever drinks beer there - there are millions of nicer places to drink in.

This was 20 years ago when my teacher told us about this. Maybe it's different now from what it used to be.