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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My dh's cousins got their clothes at thrift shops years ago when they were "poor"-long story. They might have been name brand but you could tell they were not in style anymore.
Most people understand that their experience does not quantify as fact, ie; anecdote does not equal data. Its being able to realize that just because this small group of people that you supposedly *know* so well to make this judgement call do not necessarily fit as a generalized description of *thrift shop* people, as you so nicely put it.
dj
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Defensive? Hurt feelings? Over what?
I like to mix my vintage with my high end fashion items myself. And I've found some awesome secondhand items with labels like chanel and Yves, lol, do you think that only the poor donate or re-sell their clothes?
The defensiveness seems to be coming from your end, not mine.
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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