I do not receive SNAP benefits. I do not have Obamacare. But it is unconscionable that our administration would choose to let hungry people go without food and affordable health care.
I would rather see my tax dollars spent to keep people fed and housed and have health care than to give more tax breaks to the wealthy to line the pockets of Trump and his minions.
We can find billions to give to Argentina, but not to hungry Americans?
Petty tariffs punish countries that refuse to bend their knee to our wannabe king. Competent and essential workers have not received their paychecks. Others are fired for their political beliefs.
What kind of country have we become?
Certainly not America, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Bonita Osowsky, Boynton Beach
Words of compassion
Thank you, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, for your words of compassion related to justice, love and immigrants in our midst (“Immigration law must mean more than broken, unjust status quo,” Nov. 6).
The essay was so beautifully written that I was unable to read it without tears.
Tears because love is beautiful and worthy as your opinion piece is beautiful too and worthy of expressing what many of us know, think and feel in our hearts.
Nina Leonard, St. Augustine
Start spreading the news
New York City will definitely sink like the Titanic, economically and socially, only much faster, with Zohran Mamdani as mayor. Heaven help us.
There will definitely be an exodus of people from all five boroughs who won’t want to continue to live there.
Everyone will follow the yellow brick road right out of New York City to other states, upstate New York or Long Island for a better quality of life for themselves and their families.
Public schools will become more fragmented. The quality of education will begin to drop sharply. Crime will go up. Mamdani wants to close Rikers Island jail, which means prisoners could be released. The city needs lots of prayers.
It’s a sad commentary: New York City will become the Shrunken Apple.
John Amato, Fresh Meadows, N.Y.
Food banks are a blessing
I feel terrible for federal employees working without a paycheck and for those folks on food assistance who lost their benefits. It’s a scary time.
Thankfully, food banks are there to help. What a tremendous blessing.
When the shutdown is over, the affected workers will get their back pay and those on food assistance will finally see funds deposited into their accounts and they will be back to even (though food banks may be depleted).
We’ve heard of the concept of “paying it forward,” but there’s also “paying it back.”
I hope that when the affected workers and folks on food assistance are made whole, they will pay back what they can to the food banks that were there for them when they needed it.
During the holidays, we always see an increase in people seeking assistance. I hope food banks will be replenished so they can continue their honorable work.
Ed Colantoni, Boynton Beach
MAGA and children
Are we “Making America Great Again,” one starving and uninsured child at a time?
Stacie M. Kiner, Hypoluxo
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