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Drinking Age

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cincibuck;1233285; said:
Maybe because the 18 year-old with an M-16 reoresents less than .5% of the American population. The force is very small, there is no draft on, you have to volunteer to serve.
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Regardless of how many serve, the law of 21 is idiotic.

I'm given every right as an american citizen and adult at 18, with the exception of being able to (legally) drink. Which is basically saying "your not quite adult enough"

When I was 19 I worked two jobs - one as an office manager of a hotel. It was easily 45 hours a week + how many phone calls I got once I left. Then I also was helping a friend in the early stages of opening his own restaurant. I don't know many people even twice my age that busy, on top of taking college courses.

I payed rent, taxes, insurance (health, car, home etc) gas, cable bill, internet, cell phone, went to church when I could and was a very responsible and capable young adult.

Keep that in mind, because after a hard day's work, somebody who was 21 (a mere two years older) was able to go home and legally have a beer.

Its bullshit, Its expected of me to carry my weight as a citizen and man - yet I"m constricted in this right. It makes zero sense in my mind, that (at the time)

It was illegal for me to stay at home on a rare Saturday off, have a couple beers and watch the Buckeyes kick ass...

Isn't something terribly wrong with that picture?
 
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It would be interesting to see the impact of a drinking age change on team policies....how would coaches such as Tressel deal with the legal right of all players to drink at age 18? I imagine quite well, but it seems like with the law the way it is, it's a little easier for coaches to make black and white rules.
 
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Jake;1233282; said:
The problem is the feds took the issue out of the states' hands through legalized extortion, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. Anything under 21 and they withhold highway funding (that they took from you in the first place). :pissed:
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Ohio was one of the last states to agree with the new 21 age limit when the Feds told them all their highway funds would be frozen.
 
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Thump;1234697; said:
huh?
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Alex P. Keaton....and....

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Skippy. :wink:
 
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