Letters to the Editor

• Overpaid workers inflate state prison budget
  Taxpayers are being duped by state Senator Nozzolio! It was his decision when he came into office in 1974, to take away the many jobs that for many years were done by inmates for 50 cents a day. He gave them instead to his voting constituency at hundreds of dollars per month!
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• Spitzer's mistake does not outweigh his good acts
  God bless Eliot Spitzer. God bless Eliot's wife and children for the difficult times they are going through. I believe Eliot Spitzer must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. However, I also believe that this act does not erase all of the good he has done. I just want to take a second to try to put this in perspective for all of those morally outraged citizens. For 99 percent of us we will never be able to make the kind of mistake Spitzer made. We won't be able to make it because we didn't get our law degrees at Harvard, we didn't work countless hours fighting corruption and making New York a better place. I offer you two different ways to look at this incident.
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• One's moral values should not be imposed on others
  Some controversial subjects - abortion, gun control, pornography - are so emotionally wrought that they inevitably spawn some of the most ridiculous responses from individuals who try to draw lines where none can logically exist.
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• Solid plan needs to be in place for juvenile offenders
  Carole Estabrook's column is right to point out job replacement opportunities promised by the state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is an “empty offer.” She is correct in realizing many families can't simply uproot to larger more expensive cities. This is all part of the uncertainty as a result of the agency's plan to close several youth facilities including Auburn Residential Center.
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