Posted on 08/05/2014 4:12:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It was the last week of the month, and Shanique Brown had already spent her $515 in CalWORKs benefits. Other programs would prevent Brown and her 18-month-old son, Armani, from going hungry, but the 22-year-old single mom had no money for a necessity so basic it is often forgotten: diapers.
“I cried and cried,” said Brown, now 24.
Armani is now potty-trained, but a new state bill seeks to ensure low-income parents will never face the challenge Brown did. If passed, Assembly Bill 1516 would make California the first state in the country to create a diaper assistance program for families on welfare.
The groundbreaking legislation comes with a price tag: more than $100 million annually.
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What is this can’t let them go hungry?
They get food stamps, WIC, handouts form local churches, , and groups.
They then get those free meals given to them by other groups, girls and boys club amongst other set ups they have.
Their kids on top of food stamps and WIC also get free lunch and breakfast at the public schools and also when school is out there are still programs which still give them food.
Why is it nearly every woman on welfare is over 200 pound , in their 20’s , and has kids?
Then if they are that fat they are hardly struggling to feed themselves.
If they get food stamps and WIC then they do they also have their kids get free breakfast and lunch at the school , but for dinner they are to to Burger King or other fast food places.
One couple just moved to here from Brazil and went to the local school moaning that the breakfast their kids got free was not the same in Brazil and how could her two daughters eat it.
Yes she drove away in a 2014 Infiniti SUV
The whole system is corrupt
Run by the church, yes... but what Cali is pushing is yet another in a multitude of government programs. Government doesn't do anything well.
(Other programs would prevent Brown and her 18-month-old son, Armani, from going hungry, but the 22-year-old single mom had no money for a necessity so basic it is often forgotten: diapers.)
Oh my God, my frigging head is going to explode. What idiotic, nonsense, bullshit this is.
There are so many charitable groups churches etc that would gladly have helped here. Was this women buying expensive convenience diapers instead of cloth washable ones? What ever happened to doing what you have to do for your family to get by? Why is it my responsibility to feed and clothe her family? When I was serving overseas with a wife and baby (for a period of time) I ate one meal a day the meal I got while working, so my family could have enough food. They were my responsibility and I accepted that..
I am so sick and tired of the liberals trying to drive their agenda by an attempt to shame us into paying for everything. Shame on you for using children and not really helping them.
Asinine programs such as this $100 a month cash for diapers — cash! not even actual diapers or at least coupons specifically for diapers! — eventually will pass in California and will spread to the rest of the country.
We're doomed, folks.
(Cloth diapers and rubber pants aren’t made anymore?)
Not convenient enough. requires a little work!
Yes, I think the cash is a really awful idea.
You are 100% right, but you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. Change is not going to come from the welfare population itself. All forms of welfare have to be overhauled and designed to not reward bad behavior, or the sleeping around and having babies out of wedlock will not stop.
When my son was a baby (15 years ago), we used cloth diapers. If you can’t afford a service, you can wash them yourself.
People have been doing that for thousands of years.
It's racist to expect welfare mothers who are receiving welfare payments from Section 8 housing, Aid for Dependent Children, Food Stamps, Cal Medical, Social Security Disability and whatever else to actually wash 4 dirty cloth diapers per day .
Staying home all day and being paid for not working is hard work and washing those 4 diapers is really icky and besides, it demotivates a person and puts crimp in the action to get busy on child number two (or three, or....) .
True. The government should not be involved in any of this.
The left has spent 50 years eradicating that idea through the public school indoctrination centers and , in effect, established a breeding program for more dependent Democrats. They will not turn back now.
This is only because the productive and responsible majority have allowed themselves to be shamed because of past discrimination. It is time to say ENOUGH! Conservatives need to fight in the arena of ideas and unabashedly shame those who would support anti-social behavior. Do not even try to defend against charges of "racism" and "discrimination". Rather, throw it back at them and say "Shame on you! Stop defending the indefensible." Move the debate from racism and discrimination to the immoral behavior that produces poverty. Stay with the message no matter how much the other side yells.
What the heck happened to washing diapers? It is responsible recycling after all.
At 18 months old that child should be potty trained and no diapers needed. At 18 months old they are in pull ups, not diapers. I raised 3 boys, potty training started at 12 months, and by 16 months was completed, with cloth training pants. Just as they had cloth diapers. Buy once, wash and wear. We need to go back to that method.
Diapers take 500 yrs to decompose in land fills. Not very green of this current throw away generation.
Don’t forget her LOTO tickets and energy drinks.
Follow the Money.
Who took campaign cash from Kimberly Clark and P&G?
My thoughts exactly.
I don’t remember that much leakage.
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