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If they have arms and legs, have all of their toes and fingers, don't have any health problems, are standing on U.S. soil, and are here legally, then it isn't life that is miserable, the issue is a miserable attitude.
Nice try, but no - the issue is not a "miserable attitude," but rising COL and stagnating wages. Not to mention industry being shipped to China, since *someone* wanted to have the ever-growing profits.
But..those cloth diapers aren't very cheap when you have to go to a coin operated laundry every day to wash and dry them. In apartment complex coin ops, $3-$4 per load is standard around here. That can eat up the money saved with cloth diapers pretty fast.
I listed the cost for 100 diapers, pins, waterproof pants, and a diaper pail earlier in this thread. $100.
That's enough for a week.
At $8/load to wash and dry, you are still saving money on disposable diapers.
It is less convenient, of course. But people do it.
Often times a mortgage payment is less than rent.
The point is for many middle class after THEY pay their rent/mortgage, utilities, insurance premiums, Dr. bills, food etc. they often don't have anymore disposable income than those on assistance with their rent and utilities paid or subsidized, food stamps, medicaid, etc. yet they don't spend what they have left on tattoos, salons, booze, etc. to feel better about not having any money in their pocket. The only difference is one has to get up every morning take the kids to daycare then go to work and the other doesn't.
While I have to agree that the income of the middle class keeps on shrinking (along with the middle class itself,) it's silly to grow indignant and envious looking at those BELOW you.
They are not the source of your problem - those ABOVE you are.
The ones on the bottom were always there, and taking care of them were not as big of a problem as it seemingly becomes today. The difference between yesterday and today though, is those above you, are seeking bigger and bigger profits, yet they are not ready to live in a downright third world country ( not yet at least))) And that's why they are shifting responsibility for keeping the bottom feeders afloat on the middle class. They themselves want to stay free of such responsibilities.
Not my place to support the lazy and stupid who don't understand that tattoos, cigarettes and booze that they can't afford, just to escape their self-inflicted reality, is NOT "making good choices".
Just more excuses........
Errr.. that's not "self-inflicted reality" - that's the reality of capitalism. ( You know, the system that thrives on some taking advantage of others. )
Sorry for your self-inflicted delusions, but if they help you to feel self-righteous and sleep better - who am I to argue)))
One of my friends used plastic buckets in the bathtub. She'd rinse the diapers out and then drop them in a bucket with the soapy water. If her children had "accidents" she would rinse out their things and drop them in as well.
After she bathed the kids at night, she'd wring out the bucket of diapers, panties, and pjs, rinse them in a tub of clean water, hand wring them and throw them in one of the buckets with clean water, empty the tub, wring out the diapers, etc., then hang everything up to dry on one of those foldable wooden dryers in her tub.
It was a bit of a process, but the little kids liked to help her with it. And the next morning, she had dry diapers and pjs.
She had a washer, but she only used it for weekly washings. She hung everything on the line when she could.
Sounds awesome, and it only keeps me wonder - why don't day cares want to follow this practical procedure, and accept only disposable diapers? Or did you miss the point brought in the article? ( No day care, no job kinda... )
If they can't even afford cheap, plastic diapers they have no business having a baby then.
Having babies while poor has become a very profitable family business. They live lavish lifestyles already, the last thing America needs is subsidized diapers for children and diaper banks.
Amazing, how senior citizens who worked all their life don't have diapers covered under Medicare which should be included but these poor women with children get a big windfall each month with only a tiny amount of that big, fat TANF check going to diapers.
It's all a bluff and desperate plea for higher taxes and more welfare so they can buy gold-rims for their Cadillac SUV's and trying to emulate Kardashian lifestyles.
Maybe they should use TANF money for diapers as opposed to manicures, gasoline for Cadillac Escalade's and steaks and lobsters.
As a single male without kids, I think it is interesting how many articles these days on pampered millennials who complain about child care being expensive and how diapers are expensive also.
If Jessica Frazier did "everything she can" to make the cost of diapers affordable, we'd be reading about how she uses cloth diapers and [gasp!] launders them, herself. What a concept.
I, too, am sick and tired of the increased number of bennies doled out to slackers, thanks to the largesse of taxpayers.
Sounds awesome, and it only keeps me wonder - why don't day cares want to follow this practical procedure, and accept only disposable diapers? Or did you miss the point brought in the article? ( No day care, no job kinda... )
Sounds like a lot of work. That's why I used my washing machine.
Of course, daycares aren't going to wash your kid's diapers. They aren't going to wash the outfits that get dirty either. They are going to send the dirty outfits home in a plastic bag.
They are also going to send the wet diapers home in a wet bag. Happens every day, all over the country.
Most children in daycare are there because their parents work. If they earn enough to pay for disposable diapers, go for it.
If not, cloth diapers are a less expensive option.
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And that's why they are shifting responsibility for keeping the bottom feeders afloat on the middle class. They themselves want to stay free of such responsibilities.
Or did you miss the point brought in the article? ( No day care, no job kinda... )
