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: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:40pm
So?
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:40pm
I very much disagree. Before the internet these same employers did not allow break time half as generous as the time we all waste here. Its very dishonest what we are doing here. Its stealing. Plain and simple No better than buying a fake bag.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:41pm

The point that was trying to be made was that obgyn's subscribe meds for all types of mental illness and the fact that it had been going on for years.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:41pm
You are the ultimate mistress of the non-sequitur. The point was that whether someone is rich and poor, the law is the law. I was staying in the mansion, and although I am a bit slow, it dawned on me that people in the place were using drugs. I have also lived in the projects once, people used drugs there too.
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:42pm
No I knew you didn't post from work. No one here posts from work.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:42pm

I have not excused or justified it, I simply stated it is not a huge deal.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:42pm
It's pretty clear that the type of people who go to those parties believe that the moral implications of stealing disappear when the stealing doesn't happen in a dark alley.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:45pm

So then you did not understand after all. If they are selling counterfeit goods, they are no longer legitimate. I do not care how they appear or how much money they make.

In the city where I live, there is a very famous and powerful lawyer, with a big firm. However, he does things that make him not legitimate in the eyes of most decent people. He has not been caught yet, but that does not mean he is legit.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:50pm
Ha ha you're so amusing. I don't have a job.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 3:51pm

My examples are very apt.

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