Why are diapers so expensive?
This article is so frustrating.  The helplessness and dependence are just sad.  Cloth diapers cost less than $1.50 each in a 10-pack.  If you are poor enough, you can wash them in a bucket with bar soap.  That&#x27;s what virtually everyone did before washers were invented.  I&#x27;m saddened that this girl didn&#x27;t figure this out.  I know first-hand, when you&#x27;re poor and desperate, you figure shit out.  Unless, of course, you have a system that encourages dependence on public assistance and actually ends up hurting a woman&#x27;s self-sufficiency and puts her little boy at a high risk of being helpless and dependent, too.<p>I want to help them, but the answer isn&#x27;t more subsidies.  I want to see her get that better job, even if it means losing the assistance.  I want to see Dad stay in the home because that&#x27;s so critical for developing emotional control in young adults.  I want their son to grow up scrappy and industrious, with a good sense of how to get by even things are tough because tough times happen for everyone.<p>I don&#x27;t blame this woman. I&#x27;m
 not pissed at her.  I&#x27;m pissed, however, at the politicians who have created this dependency web to trap people like this woman and ensure that there will always be a need for do-gooder politicians.