To the Editor:

Re “Reports Find Errors and Fraud in Small Business Administration Contracts” (Business Day, July 24):

Congress has required that 23 percent of all federal contracts be set aside for small businesses, but a dozen Fortune 500 corporations received Interior Department contracts that were listed as going to small businesses.

Insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result.

The Small Business Administration has outlived its usefulness. It is time for Congress to reassign the tasks that the S.B.A. is supposed to perform to agencies that can actually perform them. Then dissolve the S.B.A.

I have had two marketing contracts with the S.B.A., and I know the ineffective manner in which that agency operates. Small businesses deserve better.

Steven A. Ludsin
East Hampton, N.Y., July 25, 2008