My husband and I are poor, and strive to just pay for stuff we have to have like utilities and insurance. My husband has no health insurance and is not eligible for anything; plus he’s unemployed now and I’m disabled. We don’t eat out, go to movies, take vacations or have a new car. We make due with what God provides as He has ALWAYS taken care of us somehow...
But you’re right; it has to stop...even her kids know it isn’t right and I’ve explained to them that they aren’t getting ‘free stuff’...they are slowly learning what taxes are and who really pays for their “free lunch”.
The kids ALL have cell phones and MP3 players and one has his own laptop and IPod; all their furniture and their brand new 42”HDTV are from Rent-A-Center...nice, huh?
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Same situation here, although thank god both hubby and I are employed. He has no health insurance. Neither do I. He pays half his net income in child support to his ex-shrew who is a CPS worker and gets cadillac benefits, her new husband makes twice what I do easily. They are constantly going on elaborate vacations, eating out, you name it. Hubby has NO SAY over anything parental; she stripped that away the moment they divorced. Just pay the child support and look the other way. Oh and the kids have all the gadgets as well. Of course every one of them is failing in school.