In Monday's letters, readers riff on subprime solutions (for lenders and for borrowers,) on the battle over the MTA transit tax, on animal shelter budget cuts and on a onetime-nuclear-site-turned-tourist-attraction.

Sue Talbot, of Los Angeles, offers this retort to a story about a new Los Angeles program to recycle table scraps:

I was surprised and dismayed by the snarky tone on the city's experimental food waste pickup program.... What better ideas does The Times have for getting rid of the detritus of our excessive consumerism?... Quit dissing the program before it's even started.

*Photo: Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times