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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Oh please!
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
Interesting defense.
PumpkinAngel
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.
I believe there is a growing extreme that doesn't want their children to have medicine of any kind.
PumpkinAngel
Concerned about what?
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