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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I'm not sure I understand what you mean?
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
We have found that by taking care of a car, it can last well into its second decade without more than the usual wear and tear things. Most engines are good enough to last at least 150k miles and that lasts about 12-15+ years for our cars. If we didn't drive up to CT and down to NC several times a year, they would last longer.
We spent about $3k on my car last year. Much less than if we had to make payments on anew car plus our car tax and insurance rates are much lower. Savings all around. Plus, buying and using fewer cars in my lifetime makes my footprint on the earth smaller.
ITA. RE: the warranty, I had a professor in college who often used to say that the best thing to ask salespeople trying to sell an extended warranty was, "Why should I buy this? Does this item have a history of breaking down? Perhaps if it is that unreliable, I should buy something else..."
I've never owned a "brand new" car. Even my T&C was a dealer demo. The owners wife drove it for 8K miles. We saved THOUSANDS buying it that way and given that I've put almost 75K miles on it, 8K is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I agree. My dh is very caught up in the *new car* thing but I've always had good luck with used. The only reason our last two cars were new were at his insistance. Some of my best cars have been gently used-in fact I'd probably still be driving my old nissan pathfinder if it hadnt gotten totaled by a lady who pulled out in front on my on an icy road 6 years ago!!!
dj
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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