Speak Ups for June 29 - I finally have proof that the Ohio lawmakers are losing their common sense.

8:30 PM Tuesday, June 28, 2011

I finally have proof that the Ohio lawmakers are losing their common sense. Raising the felony theft amount from $500 to $1,000 is crazy! Look out, Wal-Mart. Open the doors and let them in, and keep raising prices for hard-working folks. Retailers will need make up the losses from not being able to prosecute the deadbeats who steal.

Wal-Mart has been as good for employment in this country as this disgraceful administration has been bad. So it’s no surprise that this left-wing rag editorializes against Wal-Mart every chance you get. It is great that the Supreme Court put a stop to some of the liberal looters.

Whose idea was it to purchase the huge speedometers on the side of our streets? Let’s return them so we might be able to repair our streets that are filled with potholes. I was made to fix my sidewalks; now I want my street repaired.

Re skateboarders on Mitchell Boulevard: I agree that skateboarders and bicyclists should use the sidewalk. It’s only common sense, right? Wrong. If a person gets caught skateboarding or bicycling on a sidewalk in Springfield, they are given a $100 ticket. That’s our money-hungry city at work. Thank them when a catastrophe happens.

My wife and I stood in awe as some police officers attempted to subdue a man in front of a local store. The scene was scary for the officers and passers-by who witnessed the incident. The officers did a good job of securing the man and removing him from the area. These are some of the public workers who will be negatively affected by the governor under Senate Bill 5. But not if I get to vote on it.

Talk of American exceptionalism is nice but, instead of talk, I want to see proof. Our students should outsource the rest of the world and we should lead the world in green energy breakthroughs. Talk is cheap and living in a fantasy world is pathetic.

Teenagers today do not seem to have any home training and the little companies around town that hire them either need to have a responsible adult monitoring them or — at the very least — demand that they respect their customers.

(Barack) Obama should go back and listen to his campaign speeches!

Why does Ohio allow bath salts to be sold?

They need to put an end to this bath salt problem before that stuff ends up on doughnuts.

Re bath salts: I am a grandmother of nine and it is unfit for people to be showing kids snorting bath salts on TV.

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