Do people need a reason to SAH?

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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: 06-24-2008
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 6:24pm
I think it's sad when total strangers care more about whether or not your kids eat than you do.



I think it's sad when people are so uncaring and judgmental of those who are born into different circumstances. I don't have a sense of entitlement because I didn't grow up with a sense of entitlement. As great as entitlement programs are, because they provide for the neediest in society, those programs also create a sense of entitlement that can go on and on for generations. It's a cycle we create on the basis of caring, and it has a major catch 22. Society holds as much blame as anyone for creating the problem. When you pile on inequities within our educational system, racism, disparities in health outcomes for the poor, along with the problems that are created by our attempts to help, you can see our system IS the problem, not individual parents.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-01-2009
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 6:24pm
or HIS butt.
it's not just women...
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Registered: 05-13-2009
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 6:49pm

So social welfare or those at the bottom of the scale, schip is bad, but incentives for businesses and farms are unworthy of judgment?

Those milk and corn producers should be able to meet all the needs of their businesses. Why should my tax dollars subsidize them?

So its bad that children, the cheapest to insure, shouldn't have access to vaccines, well child care, but use the ER as their PCP?

All children need access to food, shelter, and medical care regardless of their parents ability to provide.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-08-2009
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 6:53pm
You know, that's exactly why I privately educate my children. If all of the 1200 children in my community whose parents have the decentcy aelf-respect to educate on their own dollar suddenly descended on the public school system, we would require at least three new schools, which would be paid for by bonds, which the next generaton would be paying for. Because I care about my children's future, I don't want them to be paying for their schooling long after I retire. Instead, we buy the bonds and keep the income. Really, I can't see why anyone capable of educating their own kids feels comfortable leeching off the system.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-22-2005
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 7:12pm

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Some people, yes. It is certainly NOT okay (in my mind) for a person to say "Well, if I got a job, my take-home pay would be enough to bridge our financial gap, but I'd RATHER not work, so I'll just go on government assistance instead." That is so, so, so wrong.

That's different than a person who says "Well, if I got a job, not only would I not net any take-home pay because of childcare costs, we'd actually be LOSING money every month AND disqualifying ourselves for WIC in the process. In the interest of feeding my children, it would be financially wiser for me to stay at home right now."













iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 7:46pm

actually i heard he's trying some new tactic or stimulus to jump start housing again, lord knows what rocks he finds all the funding for his programs under, LOL...my husband is very familiar with banking, the mortgage crisis and all.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 7:49pm

sounds to me like you're just separating the two by incomes, that doesn't mean they belong to separate departments.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 7:52pm
LOL, but traffic laws are to blame for why ppl run red lights.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-22-2005
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 8:02pm
I found this: http://www.foodandsocietyfellows.org/digest/article/wic-snap-101-%E2%80%93-how-do-these-programs-work It seems to provide a nice explanation of how the two programs work.












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Registered: 02-23-2010
Mon, 09-06-2010 - 8:09pm
I also live in a high COL area and have personally known people who have paid $30/month for an individual apt. for section 8.

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