Re:Paying Criminals for their Crimes

Erika De Los Santos gives a great description on The Youth commission as she argues its irony. The irony in here is that thousands of civilian are losing their jobs, while young criminal minded folks sleep, eat, dress and exercise with taxpayers money. Not only just that, but they also hold jobs for which they get paid with taxpayers money. Best of all, these monetary gains are tax exempt for them. Perhaps, I should be incarcerated too. The money I would save on food, clothing, bills, transportation and the nifty bank account I could build up. I agree with my colleague, "If the point of this program is to rehabilitate youths and bring them back into society, then why have they started crippling them with special privileges." I would suggest that Erika emphasized on this portion with some sort of emotional attachment in order to engage the reader.

"Mother used to always tell me not to touch the iron. One day I was able to reach it. I will never touch it again. We must burn our hand in order to learn. And these young criminals will never feel the burn if we continue placing handicaps for them.

Other than that, I like what I've read. I look forward to reading the next original editorial

Beer runs

Local government and its laws affect our everyday life more then we acknowledge. We don't question its authority nor know exactly why such law has been placed. Some laws have obvious reasons, others don't. Most of us find ridiculous how an American citizen has the right to vote, and or join the armed forces of this country, yet he may not purchase alcohol at his nearest liquor store. What are these age restriction based on? Are they there just because legislators can place such restrictions there? I agree with DWIs being enforced, and they should continue to be strictly enforced to avoid accidents and save lives. However, the policy on open bottle container is absurd. One can received a citation for simply transporting an alcoholic beverage simply because the seal is broken, Under the Texas Penal Code Section 49.031, even if you have not quenched from it. Absurd, completely absurd! Staying on the alcohol subject, it is insane how the legislation of Texas says when and when not you may purchase alcohol. Laws of this sort vary upon states. So why and on what does Texas base its hours and days of which liquor and beer can be purchased? Last night I wished such law didn't exist because we definitely could have used two more kegs. Our laws on alcoholic beverage should be more like Louisiana's I personally believe. Twenty-four-seven, three-hundred and sixty five days of the year to purchase alcohol.