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Post by everso on Mar 27, 2009 0:35:49 GMT
I'm quite looking forward to being a Grandma (I hope!) I wouldn't mind helping out and babysitting and whatnot. I had no help with mine, I'd have been so grateful for a bit of occassional help, or a night off. I didn't work when my children were small, when my youngest was at school full time I took a part time job that has flexi-time, so I could fit it around the children, holidays etc. Years later though I'm still there, I thought this year as my youngest turned 13 I'd be able to work longer hours somewhere.. the credit crunch seems to have spoiled that plan for the moment though. I used to say the same, Coffeepot. When it actually happened I couldn't believe how I felt. It's wonderful (well, I think so). You get to cuddle and spoil them and they're so cute and lovely. Then you give them back! Hurrah! |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 27, 2009 7:19:20 GMT
If there is only one parent she gets state benefits if she isn't working, Piffle - though they are now expecting her to look for at least part time work once the youngest gets to 12 (soon to be seven). I know, but two objections: 1: it is treated as benefit pretty much at the State's discretion with a Victorian sniff at these damned lower orders who should be out working for their betters if they can't afford to keep their own children; 2: the pittance it amounts to shows that. I suppose the tax credit system is meant to go some way towards removing the "handout" status. It is clumsy and an administrative nightmare but I quite like the principle behind it. Why should my taxes go to pay some middle class women with a high-earning partner to stay at home and look after her children. Bah! Humbug.  |
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Post by swl on Mar 27, 2009 9:03:48 GMT
The way I understand the Tax Credit system - the govt takes a wadge of your money then makes you sit up & beg to get some of it back.
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Post by Flatypus on Mar 28, 2009 5:05:16 GMT
Absolutely Paddy. We put this shower in charge to protect us against the exploitation that we can't individually protect ourselves agaist. But they face the real control of corporate domination that most electors blae them for. Nobody wants to be a serrvile employee, but people scrabble to be servile because they have no other option and be a hwore or nothing.
For your 'feeemlae' quotes, Women have never respected men for themselves as men fancy women regardless of what they'll pay. Women who do accept men as equals instead of objects to exploit for se, face condemnation as for'giving in' from 'male chauviits' and 'feminists' alike beecause they are so much 'alike' as to be he same 'feeble-female' promotng thing.. we need wome to not jus tstand up against traditional values o employed service to the Status Quo, but liberate men too, and accept resonsibiliity as sexually equal humman being sin stead of 'feminists' pretendingthat "Women's Liberation" nwever happend and men should continue to trreat women as sexless mindless emotionless inferiors the way male chauvinist and their identical [/i]feminist[/i] bigots demand.
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Post by trubble on Mar 28, 2009 11:33:34 GMT
Do I spy the F-word?
I thought that was banned here.
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