$600-a-week a lot for a family?

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Yonkers: Nothing tells you more surely that we need to vote out Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham in their assessment that $600 a week is a lot of money for families that have lost jobs and income — so much that they would be disincentivized to return to work. OMG, obviously they have never had to live on a modest salary and worry about how to pay bills!

To get this country back we need our working class (and working poor) to be able to survive until they can return to work. And memo to the Repugs: Many of those jobs, like those at restaurants and bars, won’t be coming back at all. So this myth that people will be declining to work when there are plentiful jobs and opportunities is just the most evil kind of lie, designed to convince the public that all these “welfare types” are simply unwilling to work. I wish they could trade places with these people for a month and see how they’d fare. They’d be crying and screaming in a matter of seconds if they ever missed a meal — guaranteed! Vote them out!

Suzanne Hayes Kelly

Locked out

Chicago: While everyone is focused on the pandemic, the Department of Housing and Urban Development replaced the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule with a much weaker one. The new rule will have a negative impact on millions of low-income people in underserved communities of color. This latest act by the Trump administration is shameful, and undermines the legal commitments required by banks, while promoting poverty, and giving a green light to institutionalized racism.

William J. Booker

Bleach body

Bronx: Regarding the question of whether Hillary Clinton would have COVID under control: At the very least she would not have dismissed it as “going away quickly” and I’m sure would not have encouraged drinking bleach or using ultraviolet light inside the body.

Mary Ann Guarneri

Sandcastle

Brooklyn: Your editorial “He peddles poison” (July 30) was spot on, but the one question I have yet to hear any media person ask Trump point-blank is: “How much stock do you own in Sandoz, the Big Pharma company that makes hydroxychloroquine?” Follow the money, people!

James D. Young

Futurama

Brooklyn: “‘Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” – John F. Kennedy”

Joseph Savino

Black & white!

Bayonne: Why do you keep using a capital “B” but a lowercase “w” in all of your articles? I can’t fathom why! Aren’t we all equal? Isn’t that the point? Please just tell me. Isn’t that racism? We are all just people! Humans! Equality is the goal! Period!

Kevin Parker

Fighting words

Bronx: I can’t believe you printed an article by warmonger John Bolton. His foreign policy is designed to bring us into war, whether it be with Syria, Iran, Afghanistan or Venezuela. Now we must get China. In your desperation to hurt Trump, you now embrace America’s foremost warmonger. Kevin Harrington

Trigger warning

Brooklyn: It is ridiculous what’s going on with killings. Every page in The News has stories of people being shot! Where is the mayor, who should be working on gun control instead of painting Black Lives Matter on the streets? This city is becoming a total war zone with innocent people and babies being shot. Something must be done. Get the guns away and don’t dis the police. They put their lives on the line every day! They need our support. Let them do what they have to do to keep us safe!

Rita Leslie

Rotting apple

Brooklyn: I find it so disturbing and sad that we are all watching NYC take its dying breaths because of this incompetent mayor. Once a beautiful melting pot, with so much culture and beauty, the city has become immersed in graffiti, lawlessness, homelessness, garbage, crime, violence and low expectations for education. The City Council adds to the mayor’s incompetence. Goodbye, New York. You were a golden jewel! Maria Ciarametaro

Special delivery

Jamaica: If Dr. Stella Immanuel double dares Dr. Anthony Fauci to send her his urine to prove he is not taking hydroxychloroquine, then We The People double dare Trump to send his DNA to E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers to prove he did not molest her. Sean A. James

Unnecessary

Austin, Tex.: Sen. Tom Cotton may be a well-educated individual. But when he claimed that “slavery was a necessary evil,” his ignorance and arrogance were starkly revealed. At minimum, Cotton’s decency is in scarce supply — something that should trouble all Arkansans regardless of political party. Moreover, Cotton’s pitching a bill to prohibit use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project is silly, exposing a total lack of awareness of the purpose of history. Contrary to Cotton’s inaccurate declaration, the 1619 Project is not “a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded.” Moreover, it does not “indoctrinate young Americans with this left-wing garbage.” Cotton is an example of why graduating from Harvard does not mean one is educated. Richard Cherwitz

Tried & succeeded

Brooklyn: One memory I’ll always have of Regis Philbin is the year he substituted for Dick Clark in hosting New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (2004 into 2005). I was in Times Square holding up a sign that said, “Rock Us Into 2005 Regis.” Regis commented on it on national TV, saying, “Look at that. ‘Rock us into the New Year Regis.’ Well, I certainly tried.” You will be missed, Regis, and that’s my final answer. David Turner

Barr, interrupted

Manhattan: I actually laughed out loud when I read your (as usual) biased coverage of a Trump official. You claim that Attorney General Bill Barr had “a hard time explaining” to the House Judiciary Committee why the administration didn’t respond to far-right demonstrations in the same fashion they addressed the protesters in Portland and Seattle. Hard time explaining? The man couldn’t get a word in edgewise. Every time he started to speak his Democrat “interrogators” shut him down. How about some straightforward, objective news coverage for a change?

Carmine Coluccio

Ridiculousness

AP

Long Beach, L.I.: Gov. Cuomo said the MTV Video Music Awards will take place at the Barclays Center in August (and MTV said that it will feature “epic performances from various iconic locations” across all five boroughs) — but on 9/11 the families of deceased heroes cannot read their names “out of an abundance of caution and in line with the guidance regarding social distancing.” Am I the only one who sees a problem here?

Susan Farrell