Read this article called Prohibition Returns! Teetotaling do-gooders attack your right to drink…
Amazing that people think they have the right to imprint their views on me. See, I happen to be an adult. I choose what I eat and drink, the people that I hang out with, what music is playing and when it’s time to go home. As far as I know there are no laws limiting me in anyway as long as I play by just a few rules. The most important is how to get home without needing a car. In San Francisco that is pretty simple: cab, train, bus, BART. But in other parts of the country it’s not so simple. The car centric world of mega malls and cookie cutter eateries leaves you little choice but to get behind a wheel at the end of the evening. Of course just a little bit of planning gets you home without the need to drive if you rock, paper, scissors for the DD spot.
I know that people like to throw numbers about like how many innocents die. But here’s an alarming statistic: 16,885 died in 2005 from alcohol related fatalities but 300,000 die annually from obesity.
Do a walk through of your grocery store and read the ingredients on packaged food. It’s chemicals, partial hydrogenated oils and sugar. It’s in everything with few exceptions (beer is one of those). Scary stuff this food. Why isn’t a group of mad mothers fighting corporate food manufacturing to stop this? Where is the outrage?
The challenge to everyone is to see the greater problems and find solutions to them. Making laws, lowering limits and increasing punishments are not solutions. Those things only make the legal system crowded and lawyers rich. Want a solution? How about this. The MADD fundraiser of $38 million dollars for 1994 could have bought 1,900,000 cab rides home for anyone that needed a ride. Now that’s a solution.
