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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"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."
Even after about a dozen posters explained to you that they are middle class or upper middle class yet still shop in thrift stores, you still say this? Why? Do you think the posters are lying about their income levels? About whether or not they shop there? Geistigal in particular gave a non-financial reason for shopping in thrift stores- to protect the enviroment. Does this reason not exist simply because accepting it would destroy your argument about the "only people" who shop there?
Lol, thats exactly what I'm telling you. I'd say a good portion of people go to thrift shops because its fun and they enjoy shopping there. My kids love going there. I usually run into at least 1-2 people I know when I go to them, and I live in a fairly affluent area. And I think there are plenty of people out there who ARE concerned with things like consumerism and the environment.
Quite honestly, I dont want my children to grow up thinking they are *too good* for secondhand items. My almost 16yo thinks thrift shops are the greatest thing since sliced bread, lol, and I'm SO glad she is like that. She enjoys the mall too, but is never adverse to secondhard.
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<> That's a big problem! I just don't wear clothes with stains so I certainly don't expect my kids to have to either. Different strokes.
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You're really reaching!
<> OMG. You either can't understand what I wrote or you're soooo reaching.
<> Stick with me now. The average Joe is familiar with DNA testing by the police. Many-a-time, DNA testing shows the DNA of more than one person because it does carry through a washing...and over a long time period without any washings. That was never to say Forensics wash crime victims' clothes!
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