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All things in moderation The selling of alcohol won't help our economy nor hurt it. It won't increase our tax base nor hurt it. The one reason to make it available is to control its sale better. Legal sales are controlled much better than illegal -RALPH WAGGENER By Ralph Roy Waggener Commentary: Personal Opinions of the Writer A Big Mack burger - Excessive exercise - Sleeping too much - Drinking Alcoholic beverages. Any time you overindulge it's hard on your health. That said it's hard to turn down something you like. Is one of these worse than the other? I grew up in the Columbia Baptist Church and I truly believed that anyone who took just one drink of alcoholic would grow horns! That's what I picked up from well meaning adults in our church. Was it right for these well meaning people to misrepresent the truth to keep the young people from drinking? The sale of alcohol is done in most all the states, towns and cities in the USA. All except the Bible states and most have a quality of life as good or better than our own. The selling of alcohol won't help our economy nor hurt it. It won't increase our tax base nor hurt it. The one reason to make it available is to control its sale better. Legal sales are controlled much better than illegal. Our bootleggers, for the most part have done a pretty good job of checking minors, I have been told by some youngsters that they had been carded at one local joint which was located down the road after you cross Russell Creek bridge. The one thing we might do as a society is to teach young people how to drink sensibly before they get out on their own and don't know how to handle there drink and have an accident. I'm 68 years old and I don't drink anymore. Yes I have been guilty of not moderating my consumption of alcohol in days gone by. I can speak to this from experience in days gone by. Drinking is not a good thing other than a drink before dinner, which relaxes and helps digest food. One thing for darn sure it's a lot better than our youth getting on drugs, as so many are doing. Of course the teetotalers would argue that alcohol causes people to get hooked on drugs and in some cases they are right. Most youngsters learn alcohol is as far as they will go most are not dumb but most youngsters are going to do dumb thing as they grow, that the only way for them to learn by doing. I for one would support legal sales of alcohol beverages in Columbia, KY, because it would put better control of alcohol. It just makes good sense to control it legally! This story was posted on 2011-08-31 15:15:56
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