California families are struggling to afford housing, electricity, insurance, gasoline, groceries, childcare — and now even diapers.
Agovernment-branded box of free diapershanded out at the hospital.
Under Newsom’s newGolden State Start program, California will provide 400 diapers to families with newborns leaving participating hospitals.
Sounds generous. Until you do the math.
A newborn can go through eight to 10 diapers a day. So 400 diapers lasts roughly five weeks.
The cost to taxpayers is about $12.4 million this year alone.
Newsom calls this “what affordability looks like.”
No. It is what dependency looks like.
Diapers are expensive. For struggling families, every dollar matters. There is nothing wrong with churches, synagogues, charities, neighbors, or extended families helping new parents through a difficult season.
This is Sacramento taking taxpayer money, running it through government, partnering with a politically connected nonprofit, and handing some of it back as a “free” benefit.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
