Please remember that you are choosing to read my opinions.

When I watched the Democrats debate the other day, the drinking age was brought up. Almost all of them were against lowering the drinking age. There was only one person I remember, Dennis Kucinich, that said that he was for lowering it.

But I think that man will say anything to get elected. He gives off a very weird vibe, like he is trying to say and do things that will have an impact, regardless of whether he has a real, emotional investment in it.

Still, he has a point. You can vote at 18, you can enlist and die for the country at 18, and you can smoke by 18.

I think we should change everything.

If it were up to me, I'd change the age you can buy cigarettes, enlist in the military, and buy alcohol to age 19.

Why? Almost all people have graduated high school by then, and I don't think that you should be able to do any of those things until you have.

 I'd change the age you can vote to 17.. If you are about to graduate high school, I don't see why you can't vote, too. Half the people graduating are probably more intelligent than certain people they'd be voting for, anyway. Let them vote!

And while I'm changing everything, let's get realistic about education. Sex education. Teach them about it, don't tell them not to do it. That has never, ever worked. It has only led to young, confused, pregnant teens. If you want to tell them not to have sex, tell them. But don't expect them to listen. Expect them to do the same things people have been doing since the beginning of time, and arm them with the knowledge they need to be safe and happy. So the education system isn't doing a good job? Maybe we should send every household with a child a Sex Education package and let the parents decide if they want their teenager to have a child of their own, or get an STD.

And what else should we fix, here? Social Security? Tax everyone and keep the government's greedy little hands out of it. Oh, and how about putting some of that money back you took out for your wars and unrelated crap like that. You guys have your own budget, right? Leave our future alone. It really isn't that complicated. You see, you use the money the way it is intended to be used. If you don't have enough money to fund education, how about stop sending our troops where they don't need to be? That'll save a few billion.

This fixing stuff is pretty easy. Any one happier now?