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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So not only is everyone here on this board the "millionaire next door" shopping in thrift stores. All the boardies have relatives who are multi-millionaires too. Okayyyyy.
Ahhh, the beauty of anonymity of message boards. Gotta love it.
You probably do, you just dont know it. And even if you dont, that still doesnt make it right to refer to people as *lower-class*. I think judging people based on things like where they shop isnt too classy myself.
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Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Which means almost nothing in the scheme of debate. You have several times mentioned *these kind of people* , *lower class people*, etc. You dont see how judgemental that sounds?
You cannot make such blanket generalizations based on your own limited experience-end of story.
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Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
I am not changing my story. It is just hard for people to believe that I have known and met all walks of life. They think I am just in my little world and never have been out of my own town.
And how do you not see that there's a community aspect to shopping in thrift stores? First, millionaires simply don't shop in thrift stores.
Only people who cannot afford new clothes at outlets, on sales, with a coupon, etc., shop in thrift stores. That's the poor and lower middle class.
So millionaires have the luxury of not shopping at thrift stores because they know the needy shop there. At a minimum, they don't want or need to take clothes out of the hands of people who truly cannot afford better. Please don't tell me that people who can afford new clothes without impacting their budget willingly choose to shop in thrift stores when there are places like Kmart, Walmart, Target, etc. around. Only lower middle class and the poor do.
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