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
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
where do you think oprah comes up with her stuff,anyway? the blue sky? barf. while she may pander her majority sah audience,she does not just share therapeutic messages without some reliable source of where it comes from. she has qualified writers who gather reliable,proven information for her.
oh and about ans. are you a qualified doctor with a more expert opinion about her poor background? i am really,really sad for her. she problably was a mental case. what a pathetic mother she had. shame on her.....but what i disagree with was the more *general* report that came from her story - celebrities are getting legal passes for anti-depressent drugs because of *who* they are. heavens,cancer drugs be given to celebrities just because of *who* they are,too?
Edited 2/21/2007 1:17 pm ET by egd3blessed
Which, apropos, shows that there are plenty of mentally ill people who do not receive treatment. Anyway, I simply meant that there are indeed specific, physical signs associated with various mental illnesses. It is something that is being investigated by some neurologists and psychiatrists, especially as a possible tool for early diagnosis.
Physical, but not visible to the naked eye, quite recently a MRI specialist also came up with a set of subtle abnormalities in the brains of people who had schizophrenia: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/uops-pr110705.php
I know you were kidding, but it is pretty serious for those affected, and I confess that it irks me when people (I know you did not) propose that mental illness is imagined, invented or that mentally ill people should just get over it.
Honestly sometimes I think that many of us forget that doctors are just
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