How do we get rid of this man (“Food Stamp-ede (Again),” Editorial, Jan. 20)?
Now Gov. Spitzer wants to give away food stamps to all comers?
New York voters have made mistakes in the past, but this one is of epic proportion.
New York can’t afford to wait until this man’s term of office is over. We need to remove him now.
Eugene Kneip
Manhattan
Who does the governor think elected him?
Adding 200,000 people to the food-stamp rolls is Spitzer’s big folly for 2008.
You can’t get something for nothing. If you try, you usually wind up stealing something that does not belong to you.
Spitzer is going to pay a price for trying to appease the disenfranchised. People who work hard for their paycheck bristle when standing behind anyone in the grocery store who is walking off with a basket of free food.
There is going to come a time when the hard workers of New York are going to say, “Enough, Eliot!” Then Spitzer will have to leave or will be chucked out.
Tune in, Governor. You are backing the wrong horse.
Tom Cahill
Jackson Heights
Almost all of the overpayments and duplicate assistance in the food-stamp program come from unqualified provisional civil servants or overworked workers, not from deficiencies in the system.
Since the food-stamp program receives 100 percent federal reimbursement when the error rate is kept low, it would behoove the city to give more civil-service tests and hire more qualified workers from the resultant list of eligibles, thus improving the quality of the service given to the public.
Barbara Levow
Tucson, Ariz.