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: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:16pm
So, generally these are highly evolved types is what you are saying?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:16pm

Sure I do, it's a form of theft.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:17pm
GREAT! I agree to disagree!
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:18pm

How typical....@@

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:20pm
Typical? That you totally missed every bit of point I had, YET AGAIN? Yes, typical.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:21pm

Ah yes, no support again.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:21pm

Maybe YOU really should.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:22pm
To go you one better, lol, and I completely agree that the analogy was unusually apt, the purse party equivalent in a prostitute is the escort who comes to your hotel. "You know, they are very, very nice girls, educated, speak French, nicely dressed and the madame is really more like an agent, not like a pimp at all. You pay them for the date, not for the sex."
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:26pm
n/t
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:28pm

Perhaps i have, honest mistake, you have also missed every point i have made.




Edited 2/22/2007 2:30 pm ET by xenozany

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