... too high in this country. Why enact laws to prohibit an act that will be ignored by many of our peers? The opposition may say that the higher drinking age discourage teenagers and young adults from consuming alcohol. They say the laws that force merchants to refuse to sell alcohol to persons under 21 years of age will help stem the ... prohibit merchants from selling alcohol to persons under 21 are hard to enforce. Even if they are enforced by the authorities, the establishment that breaks that law is rarely punished severely. For example, in Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted...

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... federal level, all three branches of government-the legislative, the executive, and the judicial are dominated by enemies of working people. Moreover, the recently enacted campaign finance reform law will severely impair organized labor's ability to influence elections. By default, the influence or large corporations and other nig-moneyed interest will be increased (www.aflcio.org). With so many step backs ... and obstacles, it is easy to become discourage. Where are the bright spots in all this gloom? They exist in the individual organizers who are engaged in the fight for economic at ...

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