[Luddite Patent Counsel]

The father has the children half the time. He pays for their upkeep and needs during that time. The mother has the children half the time. She pays for their upkeep and needs during that time. Mom decides she doesn't want to work, because the kids need her, so Dad should have to pay for Mom's lifestyle? Not unless you're in Bizzarro World or family court, and your nine paragraphs of senseless ranting won't change that one bit.

Even with your cute backpeddling, to say that it isn't his money is, again, ludicrous. Your position that it's only "his" until the government takes it away as an "obligation once again shows that you are probably in the wrong place. It's very easy to spout off platitudes like "pro-life, anti-tax, pro-military, and pro-personal responsibility". It's quite another to apply them to particular situations. Your personal problems have obviously blinded you to the idiocy of this situation. You talk the talk, but when it's time to walk the walk, you come up way lame.

[Iron Eagle]

"Your personal problems have obviously blinded you to the idiocy of this situation. You talk the talk, but when it's time to walk the walk, you come up way lame."

What personal problems are those? I am happily married, I have three great kids. I have a terrific job -- where competence and analysis actually matter. Life is grand.

You accuse me of spouting platitudes -- then admit that I spent 9 paragraphs replying too you. None of which you read, or worse, none of which you understood. I'd prefer that you send me my $405 an hour for my time, or at least say thanks!

It is obvious when you write things like -- "Mom decides she doesn't want to work because the kids need her, so dad has to pay for Mom's lifestyle -- that you not only don't know or understand the facts of the case, but you are somehow personally jaded. And, sentences like that expose how much you know about the important job of a mom.

Get back to the cubicle and study those patent applications, and don't let all this analysis confuse your firmly held but flimsily supported views! LOL