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: 12-06-2004
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:25pm

Oh please!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:26pm
So because you did not want meds for your child, nobody should have meds? Your family history comment earlier sounded as if you were speaking from personal experience. I don't remember what your child's condition is, but how can you pronounce on meds generally like that, based on one case. How can you even know whether the meds might have helped your child?
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:27pm
I am glad you found a solution that worked. I have a child with a neurological problem. He was first diagnosed at age five, and we were offered medication as an option, but the doctor we were seeing at the time actually said that his symptoms weren't bad enough yet but that he would probably need medication in the future. We started trying some medicines with him when he was in fourth grade, but it wasn't for several years that we found the right combination of medication and other therapies that allow him to thrive.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:31pm

You aren't concerned about the theft itself or being caught?


Either way, isn't your lack of concern part of the reason that others do not want their children to have ipods?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:32pm
Just like anything in life, there are good doctors and there are not so good doctors.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:33pm

Interesting defense.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:35pm

It amazes me that violations of copyright, in the form of either purse parties or illegally distributing music, are seen as just par for the course here. As in, "Well, I want it, and so I am going to have it, and never mind who it really belongs to or who I am supposed to be paying for the right to have it."

And yes, sometimes I drive too fast. But never in a stolen car.

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Registered: 10-17-2003
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:37pm
Thats the approach I plan to take when/if the dds' tastes change over. I love Amy Lee, though, and can't wait to buy the new cd.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:40pm

I believe there is a growing extreme that doesn't want their children to have medicine of any kind.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-06-2004
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 1:43pm

Concerned about what?

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