Who says babies deserve all these perks? If those babies can't diaper themselves, then why should we, the God-fearing taxpayer, give them a hand? 

 

Such is Rush's opinion, apparently, on the DIAPER act, which will help low-income families be able to keep their babies in child care so that they (the parents) can continue to work hard to earn money and help pay their way through life. WORST THING EVER, according to Rush Limbaugh, who derided the project as giving "new meaning to pampering the poor."

 

I know, right? It's so awesome to be poor in America right now! No wonder so many people are trying it out!

 

Here's the real deal on the DIAPER act. It doesn't give more money to low-income child care facilities. It just allows them to use the money they already get for diapers, if they want. It doesn't require them to, it just makes that option open.

 

Babies need diapers. And they need to have more diapers, so that their current ones can be changed. (You would think Rush Limbaugh would understand this, since he's the biggest baby of all. But I digress.) When you take your baby to daycare, they make you drop off enough diapers for the day. No diapers, no child care.

 

Now on the other hand, you cannot use WIC or food stamps to pay for diapers. This means that, in the words of blogger whitneymoss, "the result is that 1 of 3 American women struggles to provide diapers for her baby."

 

So imagine that you're a working mom. At the end of the pay period money starts running tight, and you can't afford extra diapers. This means that you can't put your baby in daycare, which means that you can't go to work, which means that you can't earn money for the day. Which means that your next paycheck will be short. And it also means that you're at risk of being fired, because if there's one thing that employers hate, it's moms who have to take a lot of time off to care for their kids.

 

I can guarantee you that the people running these subsidized daycare facilities don't want to see this happen. But their hands are tied by government legislation that tells them what they can and can't do with their money. (You would think Rush Limbaugh would be against that kind of thing!) And here we have the DIAPER act that lets working moms keep working, and Rush is against it.

 

Not only does he not understand what it's like for the 49 million Americans below the poverty level, he really doesn't care. What an ugly, ugly heart he has.