You're right about alcohol. When my dd was 18, she got a job at a restaurant. They made this teenager, their main bartender. She couldn't legally walk into a liquor store, but it was a ok for her to mix, prepare and sell the liquor. This restaurant had a 5 drink limit. I don't know about anybody else, but if I drank 5 margeritas, I'd be plastered to the sidewalk. And one of the margerita's ingredients, was everclear! But these restaurants sell liqour, watch you get drunk, and then send you on your way. The same thing with bars. You get wasted, and they cut you off and kick you out...out on the streets you go, for anything to happen. At the restaurant, the least my dd ever made in a shift, was $80 in tips. She worked with several college graduates...teachers, coaches, business degrees, but they preferred waiting tables. The money is just too good. At the bar where she now works, she has never had less than a $100 shift, and most nights are between 2 and 3 hundred. They get off too late to go to the bank, so the money piles up. She leaves loose money everywhere. One day, I gathered up all I could find, and she had over a $1,000! I'm scared to death somebody is going to get wind of what she earns, and follow her home, rob her, or break into our house, or worse. Anyway, my point is that there's a LOT of money in alcohol sales. If the bartenders and waitresses are doing this well, I can't imagine what the bar owners and alcohol companies are earning. It's scary really. There's so much money in alcohol, that our economy might collapse without it! Seriously, it can be a wicked thing, but I don't see it going anywhere.But whats the point of cracking down on those drugs when the hardest and most harmful to you and OTHER PEOPLE is in your local store.
Who claims 50 times more lives than all the illegal drugs combined? Who costs the American people 130 billion dollars every year to mop up it's blood-bath of human slaughter? Who destroys 1 in every 4 families in America? Who kills over 200,000 Americans each year? Is it crack? Is it cocaine? Could it be heroin?
No, the undisputed heavy-weight champion of the drug world and number one killer of Americans is ALCOHOL!
And nobody dares utter a peep!
THANKS TO ALCOHOL . . .
There are over 18 million alcoholics in America.
Cirrhosis of the liver kills over 30,000 each year and rising.
50 percent of the people on welfare are due to alcohol.
80 percent of all fire deaths are due to alcohol.
65 percent of the drownings
22 percent of home accidents
77 percent of falls
36 percent of pedestrian accidents
65 percent of all murders
40 percent of all assaults
35 percent of all rapes
30 percent of other sex crimes
30 percent of all suicides
Over 80 percent of all arrests are linked to alcohol!
And one of the most disturbing statistics of all - 60 PERCENT OF ALL CHILD ABUSE IS DUE TO ALCOHOL!
Every major organ in your body is poisoned by alcohol. According to The Birmingham News (Nov. 19, 1990), "Scientific data show alcohol is THE MOST PHYSICALLY DETERIORATING drug there is. It causes more organic damage than any other drug. . ."Why is it when people get drunk, they have a tendency to vomit? Because your stomach knows POISON when it comes down! No wonder the bartender says, "NAME YOUR POISON"! When a man is drunk, he is INTOXICATED. Do you know what a TOXIC is? IT IS A POISON! A drunk man is a man who has LITERALLY POISONED HIMSELF!
Scientists have only recently discovered the physical process that creates the slurred speech and drunken stupor. Once in the blood stream, alcohol causes a coagulation of the red corpuscles referred to as "sludging". The blood thickens so that it cannot flow freely and clogs the metabolic exchange of life-giving oxygen. And when cells are deprived of oxygen - THEY DIE! And because brain cells require a high oxygen supply continuously, they are particularly vulnerable! And brain cells are the only cells that do not reproduce! Brain cells destroyed are never replaced! Autopsies performed on drinkers, often reveal hollow cavities in the skull, where ENTIRE CONVOLUTIONS OF THE BRAIN HAVE DISAPPEARED! And according to studies by Dr. Melvin H. Kinsley, brain damage occurs progressively from THE VERY FIRST DRINK! The next time you see that man staggering drunk - YOU ARE WATCHING A MAN LITERALLY DESTROYING HIS BRAIN!