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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Sabina
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Absolutely ridiculous!
Yes, I think you are right. The problem is, IME, that people who are rabidly anti-meds also tend to Tom Cruise like views about mental illness generally.
To medicate a child is a very big step to take and should not be taken lightly. That I can completely understand. However, to extrapolate from that understandable and sensible caution that, more or less, all meds are bad, all doctors who prescribe them incompetent scheisters and besides it is all in your head anyway (yeah, duh, that is kinda the problem) is a bit much.
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PumpkinAngel
Yes, Tom Cruise does not exactly lend credibility to non-medication now does he?
I totally agree with the rest of your post as well.
PumpkinAngel
ime,that's backwards. we are a society that believes *medication* is the answer to behavior ills so we've gotten extreme,very extreme about it - medicate and over medicate......i think our young people are still too young to show outcome of all of it,too. time will tell.
so no,i'm not a parent that believes in it.
Edited 2/21/2007 2:08 pm ET by egd3blessed
I just think it is interesting the mountain you are trying to make out of a molehill.
You have broken laws, it is still breaking the law but I am evil and you are perfect.
If your child has an ear infection or a fever, do you medicate?
PumpkinAngel
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