Why should I support someone else?

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Registered: 12-27-2006
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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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:03pm
Obviously. And you are one of the reasons why my kid does not have an I-Pod, because you probably won't teach your kids right from wrong in this matter, and because you might even condone kids participating in illegal behavior in your home.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:06pm
Do you think Iam a MD?
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:10pm

I will clarify, I was directing the other posters opinion about needing a psych to get psych drugs.

The commoet about drugs in general, i forgot i had mentioned, my bad.




Edited 2/21/2007 12:26 pm ET by xenozany
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Registered: 06-30-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:13pm

The piracy issue is

Sabina

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Registered: 06-30-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:15pm
I don't know; I do suspect, though, that it might take an M.D. to tell if another M.D. is crooked wrt prescriptions for people who aren't sick.

Sabina


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And love is a thing that can never go wrong; and I am Marie of Roumania.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:17pm
That is a good point. Schizophrenia, for example, is usually accompanied by a characteristic body language. You need not be a shrink to recognize it. All you need is to spend a few afternoons visiting a locked ward.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:23pm
What you are doing is violation of copyright.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:24pm
I guess I only get half an opinion, because I did allow my son to buy himself an I-Pod, with the provision that any illegal behavior would result in immediate and permanent loss of the I-Pod. I caught him at it and was just about to take it away when he ruined it anyway. Too bad. I would have liked one for myself.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:25pm
I dont!
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Registered: 06-30-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:42pm
Au contraire, you are entitled to an expert opinion, having done the experiment and proven what others can only suspect ;-)

Sabina


Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea:


And love is a thing that can never go wrong; and I am Marie of Roumania.


Sabina

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