Baltimore Sun reader Stas Chrzanowski opines that SNAP is a crutch upon which too many have come to rely in their family budgeting (“ How to reform the SNAP program ,” Nov. 5). He says the government should slowly wean citizens off SNAP and encourage them to rely upon their own hard work.

Mr. Chrzanowski is woefully unrealistic. My young adult friend is working her tail off and still cannot scrape together enough each month to feed herself and her daughter. She is not alone. In Maryland, nearly 700,000 receive SNAP benefits, and many of them are likely in her very situation.

The Sun’s co-owner Armstrong Williams points out that SNAP has fraud and theft issues (“ The uncomfortable truth about SNAP ,” Nov. 4). I heartily agree; those issues should be fixed. Indeed, The Sun has covered

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