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A selection of reader comments from our Facebook page last week:
On Texas officials reconsidering sending prostitutes to prison due to the expense, and if you think prostitutes should be imprisoned:
• Not unless you plan on sending all the men they are sleeping with to prison too — Heather P.
• Prostitution should be legalized and regulated. Make sure they are safe and healthy. It’s sad that someone finds themselves in a situation where they are forced into prostitution and it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults wish to do or barter as long as their actions do not harm me or my rights. I have never seen a prostitute nor do I ever plan on seeing one but my morals and my preferences do not apply to other individuals in a free society — Joe H.
• Let’s just legalize everything and let people do what they want! Yeah, what a great idea. As if this country isn’t in bad enough shape as it is! Good grief! How ignorant! — Kim P.
• I say let ’em sell it! It is a natural resource! — Matt U.
• I think they need a program where they work for their food, money and shelter outside of selling themselves so that they can get an education and actually add to society rather than take from it in a prison system. Our tax money pays for them in prison — where prostitution and STDs are still prominent. So how is that a solution, other than we don’t have to see them on the streets any more? — Erica B.
On the death of Neil Armstrong, and if you remember the first walk on the moon:
• I remember that very special day — Kaye W.
• I remember, too — Mitzi B.
On a poll question asking how you would rate the crime problem in your neighborhood:
• Not bad at all. Hope it stays this way — Shirley F.
On a story about the reality television show “Honey Boo Boo,” and what it says about our culture:
• Anybody that would watch this show is as sick as the child’s parents. Why would anyone want to make a child this “obnoxious,” for want of a better word. But then there is money involved and people would sell their souls to the devil for money — and in this case they have sold their child’s. Sad — Pamela M.
• There is no difference in this show than “Dancing with the Stars,” soaps, “Jersey Shore,” etc. It’s guilty pleasure TV, and most people with common sense will not duplicate it — Chrissy C.
• It’s very sad that this is entertainment on any level — Anthony H.
• It’s a lot different than all the other shows mentioned, those other shows aren’t exploiting a child. — Samuel B.
• It shows me that people are looking for someone with a life more pathetic than their own, so they can watch and make themselves feel better — Jamie L.
On if you would support an increase in taxes to save Social Security benefits for future generations:
• No way. The government needs to limit spending, not take more from hard-working Americans in order to solve this issue — Susan M.
• Everyone’s total salary should be subject to the Social Security tax and the government needs to pay back all the money it “borrowed” from it — Bill S.
On if you have ever served on jury duty, and what you thought of the experience:
• I have always wanted to be on jury duty until I was. It’s not that I wanted to get out of it, it was just a very sad case. No matter what we decided three families were destroyed. I feel that jury duty is my civic duty. People who try to avoid it for silly reasons should be ashamed ... — Heather G.
On a story about some teens using a “designated texter” when driving:
• If my phone or my fiancé’s phone goes off in the car I reply to the text when he’s driving. I’ve witnessed too many accidents where texting was involved ... Selina T.
• Great idea! — Kathy C.
• My daughter does my texting while I drive — Donna B.
On a story about a West Virginia State Police trooper who was killed in the line of duty:
• Bless his family, God. So sad — Denise W.
• Thank you for your service you gave West Virginia as a state trooper. Our prayers are with your family — Jessie C.
• So sad — Debbie M.
On whether smoking pot as a teenager makes you a slower-thinking adult:
• Didn’t the last national election answer this? :) Dale R.
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