Why should I support someone else?
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| Sat, 12-30-2006 - 1:24pm |
Let me start by saying that I"m new here so this may have already been discussed, but this has come up in my office several times and I wanted to get some other views of this.
I do payroll for a rather small company so I know most of the workers and their wives (most of the workers are men due to the nature of our business). There are two in particular who's wives SAH. These two are up to their eyeballs in debt. I have bill collectors constantly calling for them. That part is really their business, it is annoying but I enjoy being rude back to the bill collectors, lol.
The part that bothers me is that both wives have been in the office wanting copies of X amount of check stubs so that they can go and get public assistance (I know because they told me that is what it is for)! Why should my tax money go so that these women can SAH? I know that not all families that one parent stays at home are like this, but I know lots that are. Heck, growing up we were always broke because my mother refused to work, but we weren't on any public assistance.
So, why should I pay for a woman to SAH? Why can't she go and get a job to support her family just like anyone else?


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I don't get the concept that people don't understand that you are not supposed to have the same mindset at 40 that you did at 20. You grow in life and has you get older and make more money, you are able to do and buy more things. I am not saying you should not save because you should but why should you still be eating ramen noodles for dinner like someone in college does. You work hard to earn your money, you should enjoy it.
Why not trade it in?
The grease car has intrigued me as a bridge car. I think I could do it for a few years, but not indefinitely and you have to get used to your car smelling like McDonalds.
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