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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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:23pm

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PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:24pm
The point was that alot of these women CAN afford the real thing.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:25pm
But you know that there were drugs in these mansions you saw? There are plenty of drugs in normal houses to, on LI and off. You would be surprised at what "normal" people do.
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Registered: 02-22-2007
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:26pm
And you will most certainly be deducting from your paycheck the time you spend here, right? Hours and hours day after day week after week most of us here. We're all the same
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:27pm
Unless your employer's policies allow employees to surf the 'net on work time.

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:27pm
Most of these people HAVE legitimate jobs and lives. They sell these as parttime jobs. You would never know as these are all "normal"middle to upper class people.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:30pm
So just from MY posts you know the people who go to handbag parties. Do you realize they are the normal middle-class and upper-class families that live down the street from you? They are different religions, have different ethic backgrounds, etc. I KNOW people who have used thrift shops, that is the difference. You don't know anyone who has gone to a handbag party.
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Registered: 02-22-2007
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:32pm

Very old. Everyone speeds. Speeding is illegal because it kills. Burning a cd or buying the fake bag won't kill a soul.

There's no denying that being here instead of working when we are getting the paycheck is wrong. Its theivery and stealing and a crime. But you are the bad one because you burned a cd? Consider the sources. Thanks.

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Registered: 08-12-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:37pm

I don't belive any one here has claimed never to have done anything wrong, but even assuming they had, your examples are not particularly apt.

 

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Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:39pm
I wouldn't know, I don't post from work. But I don't agree that sometimes stealing is alright if everyone else is doing it.


Edited 2/22/2007 3:44 pm ET by lindamom3kidlets

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