Arbo
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Well to me employment is about creating an identity for yourself: NOT just about income.
I see this as a crazy statement. If one needs work to have an identity, they are a pretty weak person, IMO. To me, a purpose of having a job is paying the bills, not much else. A means to an end.
I can't imagine not *wanting* to work.
I can imagine not wanting to have a job. There are so many other things one could spend there lives doing, rather than toiling away. What I don't understand is people that are so into 'work', that they never retire, or retire and fade away to nothing and die because they then feel life has no purpose. That is insanity to me.
I guess I'm just baffled as to how people can look at a capable person and say 'don't work, that's ok - it's one thing to be a stay at home mom - but Ann's not a stay at home mom anymore. . . that should simply be a temporary status.
I am baffled by anyone that believes that anyone capable of having a job should have one, for no other reason than they can.
Well, that's your choice and your right, but I don't have a problem if someone doesn't work, so long as they aren't sponging off the public or charity. I think it depends a lot on how much one enjoys his or her work. If you love your work it's not really work. If you hate it, I don't see any great virtue in doing it just for the sake of doing it.
And for once I agree 100% with you. Glad to see you finally get one right.
And the republicans are blamed for "A war on women"??? That's funny coming from the left after they demonize Ann Romney.
She is not the first. Dare I mention Palin.
hopefully there are not too many liberals/democrats who believe women should get off their ass and get to work if they do not need or want to, hopefully there are plenty of liberals/ democrats who understand the importance of raising children and tending to the family...
but after a cursory reading of this thread, i'm afraid my hopes are dashed.... too many people are still attacking this women for not working , but instead choosing to stay home and tend to her family.
Spot on.