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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But that isnt what was being discussed. You seem to think that the bad parents of the world are the ones shopping at thrift stores and have painted anyone who buys secondhand with the same brush. Read back through your own posts and see how they sound.
No one has said they dont know bad parents. Its your comments about how *the kind of people who shop at thrift stores*.
Get the difference?
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
What if they take that money they're saving on disposable items like clothing and investing it wisely so they can afford their child's Ivy League education in a few years? Let's see--designer clothes for a kid who is going to spill something on or outgrow or otherwise not be able to wear the outfit in a few months or an Ivy League education they will use for the rest of their life. Hmmmmm...that's a hard one! Not.
Not every frugal parent is blowing their hard earned cash on themselves. But some of do feel there are more important things in life than clothing. Clearly you disagree.
Lol, read my post below, I shop for myself at thrift stores quite often and know tons of people (most middle to upper middle class) who do too.
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
I know plenty of people who do not make alot of money who look very nice all the time and I also know people who have tons of money who look like slobs. My problem is with the parents who spend money on themselves before their children on Christmas decorations for their homes, expensive home improvements, bingo, cards, etc. and their children have no coats or coats that are too small or too big for them to wear.
Nope, outlet stores exist to sell only last season's and last year's clothes that did not sell in-season. That's why they are discounted - yet new. The manufacturer/designer wants to guarantee quality so discounts their un-used goods at outlets.
I can't conceive of anyone calling poor people the "unwashed masses." Are you exaggerating, I hope?
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