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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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:08pm
I have no clue. I know where she gets them from but I have no clue the higher up chain from that.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:08pm
Hmmm.. I'm not familiar with ALL of those drugs, but the ones I AM familiar with, I find it hard to believe would be used recreationally. Have you ever seen what lithium does to a person? It's hardly desirable. Do you have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that it's common to use these drugs recreationally?
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:09pm

I did read it, it is information in my reasearch files. I knew it was bias...that was the point.

Iam using my own experience for my work experience about knowing some obgyn's who prescribe medication for mental illness.

You are free to disagree with me.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:10pm
I've tried that one. The problem here is, she doesn't care, even about child labor, as long as she gets her handbag. It's a lost cause I think.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:10pm
The reason there is such a big demand for the handbags is because no one else buying them worries about where they came from. They want that particular bag. They might not have the money at the moment to buy the real thing, so they buy fake.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:12pm
Do you really think this woman selling handbags would do time? I doubt she is very worried about getting caught. She is not selling out of the back of her truck (which I have seen but never bought). She is going to someone's home and no one has a clue what she is there for. I can assure you too that there have been some cops wifes who have come to these parties. They are really not interested in busting some woman with very few bags. They are going for the big businessses.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:15pm
I never said that. I have never met a person who would turn turn a handbag party though.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:18pm
Do you not remember the Kathie Lee clothes line? They were made by child labor and no one knew. Just like alot of things. You probably have no clue how most of the things you buy are made. Are you going to stop buying them? Unless you go to the factory where something is made, you have no clue. Who's to say ALL of these fake handbags are made in the same place by the same people?
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:19pm

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I didn't say it was bias, it just doesn't support your claim that obgyn's are currently (and have been for years) prescribing meds to any mental illness.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 1:20pm

Gee, warm fuzzy feelings all around.

PumpkinAngel

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