[inishowen]

2.5 years is pretty harsh, 10 years from now it'll probably be 5 years.

Anybody else find it odd that MADD executives are paid over $12 million on a $45 million budget?

Is it fairly obvious that they lack any incentive to say enough is enough regarding DD laws?

Has our biology changed that much in the last 20 years that what once was considered impaired at .12 became .10 and now .08? Or is it more likely that the level will continue to drop regardless of the science of BAC impairment?

Here's a formula: take an emotional issue, raise money to combat it, basically achieve the initial goal, misconstrue facts to keep the issue at the forefront, raise more money, when the issue has been saturated sharpen legislation to the point of imposing on peoples civil liberties, raise more money, lastly make up stuff to keep the issue pertinent, raise more money.

Don't think so? Then why does MADD want to make drinking and driving a golf cart, while playing golf, a crime?

DD laws will continue to be more and more punitive. Not for cause but for the almighty dollar. It is a huge industry. The founders of MADD were long ago ousted by the corporate execs who run the "business" on a for (their own) profit basis.

Last stop will be prohibiton. Followed by a valiant effort to eliminate the evil that is better known as cough syrup.