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: 11-15-2006
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 5:46pm

So the only way you can make a opinion or a point in a discussion with you is if the other side offers support from a link on line for their opinion. COME on.

That is silly.

YOur obgyn choose not to prescribe you a medicine for feeling blue not all obgyn's do this AND some of the same med's to treat ppd/ or the blues is the same medicine they prescribe for mental illness.

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 5:57pm

15k huh, that is good new's i thought it was 20k a year, now for a state school. The tradition on my side of the family for state school's would be illini or northern, dh's side is u-mass.

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 6:08pm
Go Illini! UIUC costs $18,682 ($9,996 for tuition and fees, $1,00 for books and supplies and $7,176 for room and board) for in-state students. It costs $32,768 for out-of state students (tuition and fees are $24,052 and the other costs are the same).


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Registered: 11-15-2006
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 7:12pm
That is costly, imo! Go illini!
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2006
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 7:39pm
No, but generally there has to be at least one sentence that relates closely to the point you are making in the link.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 11:28pm
There was!
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2006
Sun, 02-25-2007 - 11:17am
So is speeding and being a drug dealer. Doesn't really fit into the same category either.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 02-25-2007 - 12:38pm
What does this mean: ". . .AND some of the same med's to treat ppd/ or the blues is the same medicine they prescribe for mental illness." PPD IS a mental illness. Also who is the "they" in that sentence?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Sun, 02-25-2007 - 1:00pm
<< So the only way you can make a opinion or a point in a discussion with you is if the other side offers support from a link on line for their opinion. COME on.

That is silly. >>


No, actually it's called debate.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sun, 02-25-2007 - 1:02pm

Sure it does, keep reading....

PumpkinAngel

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