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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Sabina
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Not sure why you'd ask this, given that I already said:
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Ok, I decided to "inform" myself and I glanced at your links.
They were rather short on information and long on specualtion.
I thought the article about the cell phones, showed it's bias in the very first paragraph. The article opened along the lines of "Before you give in to your child's "demands" . . ." and then proceeded to speculate on the POSSIBLITY of brain tumors 30-40 years down the road. The whole article was peppered with speculation and admissions that the data is not clear or conclusive yet.
Also, we don't use the cell phones in the manner described in the other article, calling each other in the middle of the night for every little thing. The only people who know my cell phone are my immediate family, I only use the cell phone when I want to call someone, I don't hand my # out so people can bother me at all hours with trivial stuff.
Really, all these huge problems arent the fault of evil cell phones or IPODS, it is the fault of people who don't use common sense when using them.
Automobiles and swimming pools claim many lives per year. I don't think that means automobiles and swimming pools are inherently dangerous, it just means people need to excercise some common sense.
Common sense could alleviate all the disconnect the author seems to think is caused by cell phones.
I remember when I was growing up, Rock Concerts were the big thing to blame hearing loss on. Now it is is IPODs.
As for the speculation about cell phones & brain tumors, I consider those reports about as credible as reports that the government is monitoring us with the wavelegths emitted by microwave ovens.
Never mind.
Edited 2/18/2007 12:26 am ET by geschichtsgal
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