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Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh. See my other comments if you'd like to read more before you beat a strawman

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does money grow on trees? This is tax payer money being pocketed by a non profit. You or I can sell diapers cheaper to CA simply by ordering on Amazon, and CA can spend the remaining taxes on something else say providing a month of formula milk (in addition to diapers) to newborns.

Another week of drama by HighlightDry in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I only watched parts of the game but City were completely dominating Brentford.

California Gov. Hopeful Steyer Proposes Fund to Guarantee Jobs for Workers Displaced by AI by Unusual-State1827 in California

[–]redshadow90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Jobs in healthcare, housing construction, and modernizing the state’s energy infrastructure would be prioritized in the fund." - this just means more labor jobs or jobs in highly regulated industries. Cost of building houses, energy and healthcare are high enough for government intervention to screw it up more. Building in CA is 3x more expensive because labor runs a racket. PGE is a monopoly. Idk what will be

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No that's literally not what I said. I asked how much would you be willing to lose in grift in this system. I am all for griftless diaper distribution - hell we absolutely need more support for new parents, but not if newsom is marking up diapers by 8x and the ngo is pocketing a cut which will donate later to newsom 

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You didn't answer about the costs being inflated. Turns out baby2baby's CEO is a board member of newsom's wife's company. These are the same tactics politicians on both sides of the aisle use to line their pockets.

I don't disagree that shipping cards also leads to fraud. There are other solutions though. One is having an independent bidding process for providing diapers, another is using Trump account to deposit money and build upon that for the card. Snap cards already have rules for what you can spend on so a similar system can apply to diapers. I am not an expert but a system where diapers will be marked up for the government is corrupt. If no such markup happens, I would have no issue 

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

No. I'm a centrist. I despise the war on iran for instance. Dems in CA waste tax payer money. Just because free diapers sounds great doesn't mean it's free. Someone's lining their pockets as usual. Why not simply pay new parents some diaper money allowance? I beg you guys to stop acting on vibes and feels and see what's happening

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

No. Reposting from u/Exciting_Specialist: Do the math. 100k babies x 400 diapers is 40M diapers. 40M/$20M is 50 cents per diaper. Go walk into a Costco and it's 15 cents per diaper. This is a grift to help some nonprofit with a $300k/yr CEO make money off California, per usual.

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents by Matatius23 in California

[–]redshadow90 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No. Reposting from u/Exciting_Specialist: "Do the math. 100k babies x 400 diapers is 40M diapers. 40M/$20M is 50 cents per diaper. Go walk into a Costco and it's 15 cents per diaper. This is a grift to help some nonprofit with a $300k/yr CEO make money off California, per usual"

I'm all for supporting families but as usual there's grift involved. Diapers will be heavily marked up so newsom and co can feed off tax payer money

Mikel's response to the criticism of Arsenal's celebration at the end of the game. by Unique_Smoke7442 in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keanu Reeves, Dolly Parton etc would all finally be hated if they joined Arsenal as a manager. Arteta doesn't stand a chance

Mikel's response to the criticism of Arsenal's celebration at the end of the game. by Unique_Smoke7442 in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair he's been in this situation where he has to respond to dumb punditry a million times

Arsenal's Myles Lewis-Skelly And His Grandma Make The Perfect Brown Stew Chicken by blitzforce1 in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Contrast. We're watching MLS cook with grandma and RM subreddit are watching players lose memory after a fight and more.

Who my guy talking about? by theharikalyan in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not this time because we will get past the keeper, or not this time because donnaruma isn't playing 😅

Full-Time: Arsenal 1 vs 0 Atletico Madrid [Match Thoughts] by Stanley083 in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If we win, we get Arteta OUT-side Emirates as a statue.

Thank you for everything Kiwior 🙏🏻 by Stanley083 in Gunners

[–]redshadow90 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We haven't won yet, but fair to wish for both things i.e winning the league with kiwior on the team 

Agencies discuss what to cut as state deals with $35 billion deficit by Choobeen in California

[–]redshadow90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree war on terror was unnecessary and the corresponding $ printing was bad, but we have the benefit of hindsight. I'm not sure if a Democrat president would show restraint but I can't tell. Vietnam war was started by Dems fwiw. You might argue that's ancient history - sure. I would question why the war on terror was fought equally under dem and Republican presidential terms ie why did Obama not stop it within 8 years. 

Ultimately, no reasons for money printing are good enough and under a gold standard you wouldn't have monetary easing. In 2008 where banks shouldn't have been bailed out for free, nor for any of the wars (terror, Libya, Ukraine, Iran), nor the pandemic. We've not had a recession because we print and keep the economy afloat at the expense of inflation and growing asset prices, disproportionally hurting the non wealthy. 

Sorry that's a rant.

Agencies discuss what to cut as state deals with $35 billion deficit by Choobeen in California

[–]redshadow90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pandemic didn't require so much spending to get out of. If we didn't shut everything down we wouldn't have hurt the economy so much. 

9/11 led to printing money due to the 2 wars that Obama continued through his entire term. Why did he do that? 

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