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: 11-15-2006
Mon, 02-26-2007 - 2:05pm

This is too much talking in circles for me, so i wont comment. Except for one thing, if you really want to find your stance, you really need to research it yourself.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-26-2007 - 4:13pm

Then,

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 1:39am

Because I thought his specialty was something else. I wouldn't expect a podiatrist to prescribe something for a sore throat. I wouldn't expect an ear, nose and throat doctor to prescribe a suppository.

I was surprised, I said no thanks.

Apparently there is a raging debate going on here about weather or not ob/gyns can/should/ or do prescribe meds. (Not sure which is being debated at this point in this huge thread)

So I am offering up my anectdotal evidence. Here are the disclaimers, I am not in any way shape or form claiming that every gyn in the universe does this, or even that most gyns in the universe do this, but since my gyn offered me Paxil, when I didn't even ask for it, it isn't unheard of. I doubt if my gyn is the ONLY gyn in the Universe who has offered to prescribe or has prescribed meds for mental health/mood disorders.

I guess once you get your MD, you can prescribe anything, it doesn't even have to relate to your specialty.

I am just sharing my experience, let those who are debating weather or not gyns can, do or should prescribe meds do with that expereience what they will.

(And my condition had nothing to do with pregnancy, infertility, post-partum or PMS, my gyn always takes a med history, and he just let me know that if I ever thought I needed anti-anxiety meds again, he could write me a prescription) Maybe I seemed anxious to him, because I didn't ask him about it. Who knows ?

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Registered: 05-09-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 2:42am

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Could you possibly translate that into English, please? I have no idea what it is you're actually trying to say.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 11:26am

I always thought that obgyns, at least mine did anyway, looked at me as a whole person, whole life kind of thing and not just my reproductive organs.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:15pm
As i have told you many post's ago, i disagree.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:17pm
Um, i did not say you made that statement i asked you 2 question's also, which you did not answer.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:19pm
You must have missed the post i was responding to.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:21pm

Okay...so then what is there to discuss if the point is not moot?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:24pm

I can't answer them, I don't have any relevant facts to answer them.

PumpkinAngel

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