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
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:09pm

No that's not was I was trying to debate.

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:12pm
You won't surprise me. I spent ten years working for a police department. This is bringing up some old, almost forgotten memories....like, one day we start getting a bunch of calls from "irate citizens" who have been ripped off. They had all gone to some guy who was selling "brand new brand name color TVS" off the back of his truck. Told the people they'd been stolen....he had the boxes, all nice and heavy and shrink-wrapped. Sold about fifty of them, far as we could tell. Only when the people got home and opened their boxes, they were full of rocks. And they call the police, wanting to know what we are going to do about the people that sold them fake stolen TVs! Why, they were feeling ripped off! We went and took reports, and some of the "victims" were from the nicest subdivisions in town....they couldn't understand why we weren't as indignant as they were about their plight....and eventually, we arrested the guy, but never recovered the money. Oh well.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:16pm

I have no idea, one is a legal activity and one is not.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:18pm

I posted some for you, did you not read the links?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:20pm

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PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:22pm

<<Not a bad deal to make tons of money for a few hours of work. >>


Isn't that pretty much the motto of thieves?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:24pm

It's amazing, isn't it?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:30pm
texas colleges hold a reputation for having some of the *lowest* tuition rates in the country. and they are graduating very fine graduates every year......*one* i know of happens to be my gp.

 

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:35pm
yes, you assumed by guessing!
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 1:45pm

And it's the motto of high-priced call girls. Nope. I'm not going to let that analogy drop. It's the Best. Analogy. Ever.

In fact in the couple of articles I've read interviewing these expensive women, it's literally what they said.

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