The Issue: Mayor Adams’ pilot program providing some migrants with up to $10K in pre-paid debit cards.
Somebody pinch me, please. I must be dreaming (“Don’t believe the swipe, NYers,” Post Opinion, Feb. 20).
M♍ayor Adams is now giving out debit cards to migrants. This program is paid for b🤪y me and every other taxpaying New Yorker. My real-estate tax just went up.
The debit cards could potentially be used to buy beer, liquor, soda, cigarettes and whatever ওelse the migrants migh✤t want. These cards can likely be used to get cash from bank terminals too.
When will this insanity end?
Kim F. Cody
Whitestone
New Yorkers who own a house, apartment or any type of income-producing property have to pay real-estate taxes. We get no assistance from the ci🌊ty and our costs have🌳 been spiraling out of control for years.
So, with that as a backdrop, we are expected to just stand by and let the mayor and his staff concoct an insane policy of handing out debit cards? This migrant s💖ituation is going to bankrup🤡t the city.
Frank Caniglia
Sag Harbor
Why does the mayor have⛦ to pay a third party to give out money? We already have organizations servicing migrants and the homeless. Couldn’t they give 𒊎out the debit cards?
By the way, where are the debit cards for New York’s hom🍌eless citizens?
Thisඣ program reeks of corruption. Handing a no-bid contract potentially worth tens of millions to a New Jersey firm should raise suspicions.
Charlie Honadel
Venice, Fla.
Th♍e mayor’s debit-card ⛄program for migrants, purported to save the city money, is shaping up to be a giveaway of taxpayer money. It requires no ID check and has scant restrictions and little fraud control.
Haste makes waste. The mayor’s administration does not h🍸ave the skill set to foresee what a boondoggle they have created. The city is about to implode thanks to its sanctuary mindset.
Phil Serpico
Queens
This program is just another handout, which will cost the city millions. The New Yorkers who backed Adams are gettin꧅g what they deserveﷺ.
New Yo🔯rk has become y🦩et another example of a Democrat-run city transformed into a cesspool.
Frank J. Perry
Morristown, NJ
The Issue: Former President Donald Trump’s failure to denounce Russia’s role in death of political dissident.
So far, former President Donald Trump has failed to condemn Vladimir Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny (“Piling evidence it was Putin,” Feb. 21).
Notably, President Biden, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and many world leaders have de🧔noun﷽ced Putin.
Trump has a long history here. Aꦑt a Michigan campaign rally in 2015, he weighed whether or not he would kill journalists. His appalling comments should have disqualified him from the presidency.
Similarly, when journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in 2018, the CIA concluded that the assassination was ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A few days later🦂, President Trump released an official statement repeating Saudi propaganda that the crown prince may not have known about the murder.
Clearly, Trump admires dictators ജand is a threat to truth and democracy both at home and abroad.
Terry Hansen
Milwaukee, Wis.
The West’s knee-jerk response to Navalny’s death is to intensify sanctions against Russia, but this would only breed resentment. Western values are more effectively propagated by promoting a positive perception of the United State🅷s. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
Dwight Sunada
Stanford, Calif.
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