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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Oh are we talking donations now? Well I'm sure the tons of clothing and furniture items, as well as monetary contributions, has added up over the years to compensate for the few hundred dollars spent at the local salvation army (and I'm sure some of that few hundred dollars went for things like paying their employees and back into their programs....)
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Because in the end you are not getting a bargain. Because the jeans are new, much better quality and not worn out, they will last much longer in a good condition, because they definitely haven't been exposed to blood and other bodily fluids, they will hold up to washings better and for a longer time than used jeans will so they will have a longer life-span with its only owner, and they will be in style longer. Nothing like a cheap pair of bell bottoms to waste money on!
New jeans hold their shape better and longer, are not worn at the knees and rump just yet and they "hang" and fit much better.
If all of this has to be explained to anybody, I defy that person to pretend he's the millionaire next door and actually has the CHOICE to buy "new". It's not rocket science.
I think your attitude is exactly the one that has so many people in financial dire straits.
Make more. Get more. New is better. Instant gratification and personal fulfillment can be picked up at the mall. These things are myths designed to promote over consumption. It sounds like you have swallowed it, lock, stock and barrel. Your own examples show that you look at buying used as going backwards, when in many cases it is a sound financial decision based on depreciated values.
Carrie
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