Trip to the woodshed

I think every American family should have a good old-fashioned woodshed behind their house and use it every day for a good old-fashioned spanking. Sometimes more than once. That's what is wrong with today's youth. If we only had enough parents with any backbone at all, maybe they would use a little more discipline on their kids while they are very young; then maybe these juvenile halls wouldn't be so full and the adult prison population would begin to diminish.

I agree with the caller in the Jan. 21 Middletown Journal about Ohio 4 being a speedway. On Jan. 18, we were going down to Fairfield. A funeral procession was coming up toward Middletown. Most of us pulled over but there was one car that sped by us. It happened to be a driver's training car. I am glad I'm not in that school because I was taught — when I got my driver's license — that you pull over out of respect for the dead.

To follow up on the 12-mile racetrack — Ohio 4 South between Middletown and Hamilton: Something that is needed are speed cameras posted, where needed, from one end to the other.

I see in the Jan. 20 Journal where everybody is complaining about the red lights in Middletown. The thing I would like to complain about is the wheelchair access on the corner of Breiel Boulevard and University (Boulevard) where the blend-in lane is where the cars don't have to stop. You cannot see whether there are cars coming and the cars couldn't see anyone in a wheelchair if they were trying to cross there. Had to be a genius that did that. They ought to put one of the council members in a wheelchair and let him take his chances crossing the street. My odds would be on the automobile.

It's great Americans are raising all this money for the earthquake victims. It's awesome. I really wish the Americans would get that excited about helping our homeless and our people who are starving to death. That's what we really need.

There is one message to Democrats coming out of the Massachusetts election. Simply this: Campaigns are strenuous races involving consecutive stages. The candidate must be on the go 24/7 to the very finish. Taking a vacation during the peak is plain stupid.