Do people need a reason to SAH?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-29-1999
Do people need a reason to SAH?
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Sun, 07-18-2010 - 9:28am

This theme was touched upon in another thread and I wanted to discuss it further.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-04-2009
Sun, 09-05-2010 - 9:46pm

I, usually, don't either but you cannot miss the SHARP increase in debt in 2009 and continuation in 2010.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-04-2009
Sun, 09-05-2010 - 10:47pm

Social security is not welfare.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-13-2009
Sun, 09-05-2010 - 10:48pm

The unemployment rate is much more worrying that the debt, but that's a macroeconomic discussion I don't really think you'd be interested in discussing based on your prior responses.

What is socialist about any of the current policies IYO? (I lean to the socialist side and would love to see a single payer health are system).

The US has to invest in a manufacturing culture rather than a consumer and services culture to get out of this downward spiral. On recovery, inflation will draw down the debt with a balanced response from the fed reserve.

Did you or you husband take a SHARP cut in salary in the past two years? We didn't because we still have jobs, but a number of our family and friends we not quite as lucky. We've prospered during the recession. I'm not proud, I'm just lucky.

Get people back to work now, invest and make things that other countries want to buy, balance and fix entitlement programs e.g. ssn collected should not be part of general budget, and get out of oversees wars.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-04-2009
Sun, 09-05-2010 - 10:54pm

All I can say is wow.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-04-2009
Sun, 09-05-2010 - 11:11pm

The debt isn't doing anything to lower unemployment.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 8:51am
the logic could be very simple here but i don't get how one qualifies for WIC PLUS welfare, food stamps..don't they all come from the same welfare system?

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 9:01am
well, there's the duggar family who work hard to earn their own way.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 9:03am
limerick?

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 9:09am

or street smarts...but LOL, PG rated board, yes.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-22-2009
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 9:15am

Although they are all income based they have different criteria.

You can have a higher income and qualify for WIC but it has other criteria. The acronym WIC stands for woman/infant/children so to qualify you not only have to qualify financially but have to be a pregnant or breast feeding woman, an infant or a child under 5. What you receive is based on the category you fit in.

The income levels are much lower for food stamps. What a family receives is based on family size and income.

It someone's income is low enough to qualify for food stamps then it would also be low enough to qualify to for WIC but in order to receive WIC they must also fit the other criteria of WIC.

Many people who have a low enough income to qualify for WIC have too high of an income to qualify for food stamps.

So only those who have a low enough income to qualify for food stamps and are pregnant, breast feeding or have a child under 5 would qualify for both food stamps and WIC.


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