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: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:06pm

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What kind?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:08pm
Then you really do not know the business and the women who purchase these bags. All you see is some shady transaction happening in a dark alley when it is very "out there" and not unfamiliar.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:10pm
I can no longer be surprised about the state of the world.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:10pm
True, no doubt, but maybe people should start to worry more about whence the bags come.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:11pm
Well, in that case, by all means mail them their money. Restitution is a good start.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:11pm
(sigh) I give up. Anyone got a helmet?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:11pm

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I don't know that.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:14pm
Maybe they really should, but I doubt that will happen.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:14pm
I don't understand your answer. Is that a yes, or a no?

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:15pm
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