I wish we could accommodate everyone inside Kendrick Family Ballpark. But Randy’s Ridge has emerged as a great (and free) alternative for many Mountaineers. We are adding portable restrooms & trash cans in the area. There will be 1000 FREE pepperoni rolls! Who knows, @CoachMazey himself might make an appearance. Be safe, have fun and as always Let’s Go Mountaineers! @WVUSports #HailWV #RandysRidge
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani getting a multi-billion dollar bailout from the state and then claiming he cut the deficit to $0 is one of the most mind-blowing examples of socialist math ever.
These diapers will be priced 3-4x market rate so he can pay his friends. If you actually wanted to do something like this, just pull the average number of births per hospital per month and make a contract with amazon. Far cheaper, same result. The point is not the diapers.
Ok… most of you know I was in the organic baby formula business, but what you don’t know is I dabbled in diapers as well.
I also know this baby2baby “non profit” and have had past interactions with them.. I’ll leave that out for now..
Let’s dive into this absolute grifting nonsense. Prepare to be shocked.
California is about to spend $20 million of taxpayer money to give 100,000 newborns 400 diapers each through Baby2Baby.
Do the math with me:
100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers
$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper!!!!!
Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!
That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers.
So the state is paying 8–10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.
They could’ve just handed every low-income new mom $100 cash and told her to go to Costco. She’d get more diapers, better ones if she wanted, and still have money left for formula, wipes, or whatever the hell she actually needs.
But nah… that wouldn’t let Gavin and his connected “nonprofit” girls running the show there cut ribbons, take photos, do galas and be friends with celebrities and brag about the “first-in-the-nation” program while skimming their cut for “administration” and “partnerships.”
This is peak government stupidity!!!
Spend way more money to feel good and look good, instead of just trusting parents with their own damn money.
We’re not helping babies. We’re funding another bloated nonprofit-government grift.
Math doesn’t lie. The diaper math is brutal.
What a scam and a joke!!!!!
This sounds cool. But wait.
400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.
The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.
That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)
Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.
“I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
Thomas Sowell
Actually, @JasmineForUS, you’re not “powerful” at all. You’re a public servant. You’re the opposite of powerful. Once upon a time, those who chose to serve understood this.
You are the employee of your constituents, you’re just too ignorant to realize it.
My favorite part of King Charles appearing before Congress was the part where all the liberals who refused to stand or applaud for Angel Moms or a kid with cancer, and who constantly scream “NO KINGS!” give a 3 minute standing ovation for a literal king. 🙃
What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.