Those two kids in the story "Pedalin-treats-for-pool-money" live two houses down from me. The day I rolled into St John Kansas on May 20th last year with a 15' Budget box truck after buying my house was the first day I'd ever been in this town. Their mom came over while I was unloading and offered to have the kids help out and they did. Still took me two days to unload it anyway but I appreciated the little bit of extra help. Selling ice cream for pool money is a good thing. My view on the next story is not a good thing.
Pushing beer sales for college scholarships is something I've never heard of before until recently during the Jubilee. Not only is it a potential hazard to public safety. Encouraging people to get all liquored up with the idea it will make education affordable to the less fortunate is conceivably demoralizing to community outlook.
People like Bill Gates, Clessie Lyle Cummins, Issac Singer, John Deere, Henry Ford, Mark Zukerberg (created Facebook) were/are all self made million and billionaires to name a few and not one of them has ever had a college degree in their entire lives. Google their names and read for yourself. Not that I condone higher education but these type of people pushing beer sales for scholarships try and make it look like it's a wonderful thing and it's not.
Pushing beer sales does aid the economy though, as it helps create more jobs for cops, emergency staffs at hospitals and plot sales at funeral homes. Even the flower shops do better sales with trickle down drunkonomics thanks to beer promos.
Japan has a greater number of engineers then the US. We have a greater number of attorneys then Japan, and a greater number of alcohol related problems as well. Associate alcohol sales consumption with goodness to promote the product and the aftermath is anything but good when somebody else pays the price and now someone needs an attorney a doctor a cop a rehab center and so on.
All it seemingly equates too is a cheap hustle to try and make some quick money, and provides a poor example for people to think they can party their way to success.
Aside from being a potential hazard to public safety it could manifest into a major lawsuit if just one person got killed over it. So not only are the promoters putting others in harms way, there putting their own necks on the line and may or may not even realize the serious of it.
I watched a drunk driver die right in front of me on a friday night. I saw the horror in his face as he lost control of the car. He plowed head on into the truck I was driving and was dead as soon as the cops showed up. The idiot was even married with children.
All that because of beer!
Rick Memmen,St. John
