Danny the Vampire Fish

The idea of lowering the booze age is stupidity. College presidents and other adults should teach college and high school students to have fun and enjoy themselves without alcohol or drugs. The best way to teach is by example.

The reason teenagers drink and use drugs is to have fun and enjoy themselves — in others words, to party. And, to party for them is what they have learned from adults — get drunk or high.

Parents and college presidents should learn to enjoy themselves without becoming challenged with alcohol or dope.

Danny W. Shultz
East Brady

I think feeding the rich for the past 28 years — since President Ronald Reagan took office — has come back to haunt us.

Oil, gas, utilities, groceries, farm subsides, banks, Wall Street, etc. — I don’t think replacing a president or governor is going to help.

I think we should get rid of all government “piggies.”

Danny W. Shultz
East Brady

This is in response to James H. Matson’s Nov. 8 letter to the editor, “Legalize marijuana.” In that letter, he says, “America imprisons more of its citizenry than any other country in the world. That fact makes me ashamed to be an American.”

Russia, China, North Korea and most other counties have laws against illegal drugs, and drunken driving also. Rather than through legalization, the better way to avoid jail is by not using “pot” or alcoholic beverages.

Danny W. Shultz
East Brady

Allegheny County wants to place a 10 percent tax on alcohol. Drinkers interviewed on television’s “booze news” say they will go to Butler, Armstrong or one of the other surrounding counties to do their drinking.

Those opinions show just how stupid drunks are.

If a beer costs $2 in Butler County, it will cost $2.20 in Allegheny County.

Gas now costs more than $3 a gallon. Think how many beers a drinker would have to drink just to “break even” drinking in another county.

Then the drinker would risk getting a drunken-driving ticket.

Danny W. Shultz
East Brady

In regard to the July 24 article “Child caught setting fires must clean up,” the same story could apply to drunks.

Underage drinkers and legal-age adult drinkers playing with beer, wine, whiskey or dope end up destroying property and mangling, maiming, injuring and killing themselves, friends, their own family members or others.

So let’s clean the slimy, stoned, smelly slugs up.

Danny W. Shultz
East Brady

Why don’t we lock all gun owners, beer, wine and whiskey drinkers, illegal-drug users and slot machine gamblers in a closet or gun cabinet with their guns, booze, illegal drugs and slot machines and quarantine them, so the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can study them.

We all can see how contagious they are.

Danny Shultz
East Brady