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WHY DRUNK DRIVING IS ENCOURAGED

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About 100 people in the “lower 48” die in automobile accidents, daily.  That’s the number of people who died in the World Trade Center, on 9/11, in a little over three months of automotive death activity.  Over 90% of those are alcohol related.  In spite of organizations like MADD and stiffer penalties for drunk driving, the statistics of death to alcohol consumption regarding automotive death has changed almost not a dot in the 50 or so years that statistics on such things have been kept.  Road-side bars and Mall bars, with little or no public transportation to them, nor, more especially, from them, continue to be built and flourish, and although the idea of the “sober” driver has been a nice idea and an interesting though half-hearted advertising campaign for liquor companies, it is one that has not been widely practiced.

       I believe the “system”, meaning our government, including state and local governments, does not want to see an end to drunk driving.  Not only is it an enormous source of revenue that most municipalities have come to heavily rely upon, most parole boards and agencies that deal with the follow-up of drunk driving, also including jails and prisons, are privatized and would lose considerable of their business were drunk driving to end.

       However, I believe the biggest incentive to encourage drunk driving (and encouraged it is, through alcohol advertising, television shows and movies in which people drive drunk and rarely get caught - most particularly police officers who leave their crony bars after several shots, well over the legal limit*) is this: no more automotive deaths, no body part transplants i.e. kidneys, hearts, lungs, etc.  Most transplant parts come via fatal automotive injuries and, as I said, and as is fairly well known, most of those deaths are due to alcohol consumption.

       As a society, we have become heavily dependent on criminal behavior as an increasingly large source of government revenue, but that is a discussion for another time.

*I believe Hollywood movie-making and, not only corporate advertising, but government agendas as well, are frequently intermingled: think of the plethora of Army, Navy and Marine movies that yearly get produced, using genuine military hardware (such as aircraft carriers, jets, etc.) and how those movie "spots", if you will, increase the number of people signing up to "serve".  Just as you see Corn Flakes in a movie, or Pepsi, and know those "spots" were paid for by the sponsoring companies, so, I believe encouragement for alcohol consumption is also paid for and subsequently endorsed in similar movie "spots".

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