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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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-29-1999
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 3:44pm
Like you and the other poster...I'd like my furniture to have a history and tell a story. Waaaay more interesting than a cookie-cutter house.
Christi babies
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 3:47pm
The assumption you made- not based on ANYTHING- was that the people who shop there are doing so because they blew all their money on frivolities like cigarettes.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-13-2004
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 3:51pm
So lower income equates lower class? My mom was a single mother and shopped at thrift stores where she bought very nice suits to wear to work. Her income level did not dictate her class.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-12-2003
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 3:59pm
I have no exerience with girls, but I gotta say that dressing boys is pretty easy.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:00pm

And I stand behind my point that selling directly to the poor and disadvantaged is only part of their mission.

Hey, that could have been me with the bags and the kids in tow....us and our dented up old van!

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-12-2003
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:01pm
Thanks, Carrie.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-12-2003
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:05pm
And some, like Goodwill, also employ people who are poor and/or disabled, or otherwise disadvantaged.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:24pm
We have places here too that I could sell to but I just do not have the time to travel to them. I have been leaving my clothes out for Big Brother and I love it as I don't have to go any place which is great for my schedule.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:25pm
I said not ALL people do that but the ones I have come in contact with are the kind of people whom cigarettes and bingo are more important than their children's clothes, food, etc. If I know a few, I am sure there are alot more out there.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:27pm
Absolutely not. There are alot of financially well off people who have no class and are "low-class".

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