Posted on 05/10/2016 5:58:30 PM PDT by artichokegrower
For parents of young kids, diapers present both a necessity and a constant cost. There’s not much Norah Weinstein can do about the first part, but she’d like to ease the impact of the second.
Diaper affordability has proved to be a popular issue in California. Assembly members voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation to end the sales tax on diapers and to create a $50 monthly welfare diaper stipend for working parents. The issue has also gotten attention in Washington, with President Barack Obama penning a Mother’s Day missive calling for the private sector to help promote diaper access and Obama adviser Cecilia Muñoz spotlighting the issue.
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Those cloth diapers are for rich people.
Same reason that food stamps aren’t restricted to “healthy” foods.
Get a clue. You can use washable diapers as generations of mothers have. I had 9 doz. cloth diapers for 4 kids. They make great rags and polishing cloths afterwards. And the kids get potty trained quicker because they can feel when they are wet. I cried when the last one fell to pieces.
Many years ago kids potty trained at about one year old. Now they wear diapers until they are two and three years of age.
What’s next? Puppy pads?
Since they like it so much let them pay for it themselves.
Maybe it’s time to LEAVE THIS STATE FOR GOOD
You already get free birth control, use it.
I’m pretty sure they’ll use that $50 for diapers. /s
Good lord, when will it stop?
We pay for their birth control and then when that fails, they either kill the baby or have it and we have to pay for its food and clothing and room and board and diapers!
Beam Me Up Scotty!
/Traficant
Dude....
You have nipples?
Thems boobs, just not functional.
Bruce Jenner knows.
Do you know what California lawmakers and diapers have in common?
The prices of diapers will skyrocket with any subsidy, punishing those who do not rely on Gov’t charity.
Access to your wallet, to my wallet, to that guy's savings account, to that woman's paycheck...
How true!
Regards,
$100 will get you a used supply of cloth diapers for your baby’s needs. 1-2 extra loads of laundry a week. Head over to eBay, poor women.
Also...If anchor babies are needing free diapers, please call Vicente Fox. He cares about you so much and he is very rich. He should buy you all the diapers.
It’s not bad. The new all in ones are as easy to put on as disposables, and sont have toxins on your baby’s delicate privates (skin that easily lets in anything to their bloodstreams). It really is only 1-3 more loads of laundry a week, and remember, laundry is EASY with washers and dryers. You can be sleeping or doing other things.
And they are cute and wick away wetness and keep baby healthy.
The bigger problem is finding the right plastic pants to guard against leaks.
No, they are so good now. This is an expensive brand I used, it was so fun to collect. It did NOT leak on us. The outer PUL protects the inner absorbent soft part. I used them, washing them carefully, for two years, then sold them for almost half their cost. Totally worth it and she had very cute dipes.
Forgot the link. http://www.chelory.com/All-In-One-AIO-Diapers/
Diaper “access”.
OK, who’s stopping people from buying diapers?
All that sounds so cute, but California still has a drought and the amount of water necessary to use non-disposable diapers (in any form) is humongous.
I have not heard that the water fairy is returning any time soon.*
Then what?
* Read the history of California's water management system. The state over the last 100 years alternately has passed "water bonds" to build, then destroy dams created for water supply and flood control in an ever ending cycle.
The last pass, earmarked more money for the "Bugs and Bunny crowd and the trash fish "preservation," with humans and agriculture taking a distant second place. And all the trash fish died anyway... California, "idiocracy" is thy name... I seriously doubt that more than a half dozen members of the California ignorant moron legislature has read the California Water Atlas, My favorite being the 1979 Edition.
I have a personal copy, but there is now access to a very large, high res (180 Mb) PDF scanned on line and downloadable at:
High Res 1979 California Water Atlas PDF
A new edition is in the works, which I suspect is being heavily influenced by the wrong groups, full of BS and psychobabble, people-last sort of thing. Ironically, the 1979 version was prepared during the clown Governor Brown's previous stint at being "Governor Moonbeam."
The version at the link above is worth the trouble downloading for permanent reference. It is a classic.
Not so obviously welfare recipients sell their benefits at 50% (great scam) and since cigarettes by the carton are about $60, $120 of welfare checks goes to cigarettes, while breakfast and lunch is being funded for the little bastards at school, in addition...
Yes, Bernie and Shrillary, let's increase all that and share the fake "wealth."
How many real and man-made ten year droughts did your sainted mother live through?
The California Central Valley for 100 years the fresh vegetable producer (80%) for the entire U.S. is now virtually a dust bowl.
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