Why should I support someone else?

iVillage Member
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 - 2:39pm
There are many different types of women and different income levels that buy fake bags. Even the girls on the radio station I listen to say they frequent the shops in Chinatown. They can easily afford new but they buy the fake too. You are not taking about just poor women.
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Registered: 12-06-2004
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:40pm

Sure, watch Cops.

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Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:41pm

It's not that I've never done anything wrong. It's that I can't understand deliberately doing something that is so horrendous. Buying a fake purse is not "just buying a fake purse". I'm sorry you don't see it that way.

In addition, I can see how someone would buy a fake, not knowing that it's that bad. I can't see how someone could say that they wouldn't care if it was manufactured by child labor.




Edited 2/22/2007 2:43 pm ET by lindamom3kidlets
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:41pm
Well just like I was attacked that I did not know people who go to thrift shops because I do not (even though I DO know people who have used them), how can you say you know what kind of people go to the parties if you personally do not know anyone who ever has?
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:44pm
I know where she gets them. I do not know where "he or she" gets them.
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Registered: 08-12-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:45pm
In case no one's answered yet:

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:46pm
Thank you.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:48pm
I have seen drug dealers operate in mansions on Long Island. The location does not make the drug dealing any less illegal. What are you trying to argue here? That it can't be illegal because everyone is doing it? Or do you mean that if something is done in a nice place it can't be illegal, or maybe it is that if everyone is doing it in nice places, THEN it can't be illegal?
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:51pm
Thanks!!!
Do you have an article on it. I would love to read about it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 2:52pm
Uh-oh! That is like the POD people!

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