EDUCATION BEST CURE

If Jan. 27 had been April 1, I would have considered the editorial "Out of
prison" an April Fool's joke! I can't believe the writer really thinks
ex-prisoners are due all the privileges The News-Journal wants them to
have. They were incarcerated for crimes that they chose to commit. The
writer seems to believe some crimes should go unpunished.

We as a society need to take a look at where most criminals come from. Some
possibly could come from the homes where mothers are paid to have as many
babies as they can produce and homes where men produce as many babies as
they can find women who will have them.

If these children were raised in a loving family environment where they
were taught right from wrong, they might stay away from committing crimes.

These kids carry on the family business generation after generation.

The solution? Education! Force welfare recipients to learn a trade of some
kind. Everybody has some basic skills, even the most indigent. Welfare
recipients should make sure their children finish school, no exceptions. If
they can't or just simply won't control their children, take them away and
put them in a lock-up school and don't let them out until they have learned
a basic skill for securing a job.

We are paying for a prison system that doesn't work and a welfare system
that doesn't work, so maybe this would save law-abiding taxpayers money.

Civil rights? What about everybody's civil right to live without fear of
being robbed, beaten or even murdered? Oh well, I have always been a dreamer.

JOY GLOER

Ormond Beach