Healthcare is the missing ingredient in Mamdani\u2019s grocery plan<\/a>,\u201d op-ed, Aug. 23). Many inner-city areas are food deserts, and these grocery stores will make food affordable. Mamdani is taking a valuable first step in making food available to inner-city residents. How else can we make it better while remaining affordable? Let me suggest internships in training programs for dietitians who can offer advice to shoppers on meal planning to optimize both health and budgets, with bonus points for interns who are multilingual, and rotations for medical students who need to understand the dietary and cultural habits of their patients. We need more of this thinking to truly address the health of our working class, whose diet is often the biggest issue in maintaining health.<\/p>\nDavid J. Melvin<\/p>\n
Eradicate the radical<\/p>\n
Manhattan: Voicer Andrew Ross conflates meliorism with socialism in suggesting that Mamdani try to impose a surcharge on high-earning occupants (maybe 10% of the total) of rent-stabilized apartments. Long ago, \u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d dismissed as bourgeois socialism the attempts by do-gooders to patch up the flaws of capitalism. The super-rich (and powerful) have managed to install this \u201creform\u201d particularly in Scandinavia, and to varying degrees throughout most of the developed countries of the world, in order to maintain systemic capitalism. Even if the surcharge caused higher-income residents to vacate their apartments (which likely are over 50 years old and in need of substantial rehab), the median rents probably exceed the 30% of income level of New Yorkers most in need of housing. So the suggestion satisfies neither ideological nor practical concerns of the \u201csocialist mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michele P. Brown<\/p>\n
Damaged goods<\/p>\n
Brooklyn: Giancarlo Stanton will make the Hall of Shame, not the Hall of Fame, for most games missed and most injuries as a Yankee. We really don\u2019t need $30 million a year for an injured designated hitter who can\u2019t play the field and can\u2019t walk, stand up or sit down without pulling a calf muscle.<\/p>\n
Billy Somma<\/p>\n
Worse predecessor<\/p>\n
Pearl River, N.Y.: To all of you President Trump haters and anti-capitalists in this country: Yes, Trump is making millions of dollars and doing it overtly and legally. Joe Biden and family made \u2014 or should I say stole \u2014 millions of dollars corruptly in shady backroom deals, using offshore accounts, funneling it through shady nonprofits and fraud, and nothing but crickets from you Trump haters. Biden was and is one of the most corrupt people in government history, and I hope and pray he and everyone with him are exposed. He pardoned his family and so many more because he knew Trump\u2019s Justice Department was going to go after those politicians and prove their corruption without a doubt. Biden and company stole our taxpayer money \u2014 your money \u2014 and yet you still support or justify his presidency. Why? They robbed you.<\/p>\n
Robert Brennan<\/p>\n
Better record<\/p>\n
Schenectady, N.Y.: To Voicer Peter McCarthy: You were duped twice! Rep. James Clyburn duped no one that Biden was a good choice. In fact, Biden was a great choice, based on facts: He didn\u2019t start any wars, he created and recovered 16 million jobs, he signed the Infrastructure Bill, he signed the CHIPs ACT, he signed the PACT Act, and he didn\u2019t build monuments to glorify himself. Peter, you can\u2019t fix stupid, but the red hat makes it easy to identify.<\/p>\n
Diane Sanders Hombach<\/p>\n
Stinging rebuke<\/p>\n
Forest Hills: To all who are antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, however you want to call it: Say your wish came true. What if your dream of Israelis\u2019 nonexistence happened? So many inventions and technology \u2014 the IV, the life-saving work, not getting lost in your car, research in biotechnology and water. Would your lives be better or worse? How many of your lives were saved as a result of Israeli technology? How much is the price for your hatred? If we go, you go with us, and what\u2019s the point of that? Are you like the fable of the scorpion and the turtle, where the scorpion promises not to sting the turtle if it takes him to the other side of a lake? The turtle trusts the scorpion, who stings him anyway and they both die. The turtle is furious: \u201cYou said you wouldn\u2019t sting me.\u201d The scorpion replies, \u201cThat\u2019s my nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stew Frimer<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t aim your \u2018anti\u2019<\/p>\n
Levittown, L.I.: When someone or groups of people voice a protest against a certain entity, such as anti-Israel\/pro-Palestine or vice-versa, it\u2019s probably their way of being anti-war\/pro-peace. I think we can all agree that war is death and destruction. We must be objective about it, not subjective. It should be stated as such without singling out an entity. It\u2019s all about being anti-war, and all protest must be peaceful.<\/p>\n
John Di Milia<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n
Bloomfield, N.J.: Why do you bother to print \u201cBaker Street Puzzle\u201d when the answers are never readable?<\/p>\n
Eli Kelley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riders left waiting for a bus to nowhere Brooklyn: On Monday, Aug. 3, at about 9:30 p.m. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,264,63,299],"class_list":["post-329075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-nyc","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}