I think they believe people need to help them out of the pickle they got themselves in...I won't donate because I do feel this is an attempt by the father for the public to finish setting his wife up in business so he can remain unemployed..or mr. stay at home dad.
Spending money on a business before you spend it on a house may not be what you would do, but it is not a crime-asking for donations to build anything isn’t what I would do, but that isn’t against the law either.
I don’t see being obsessed with how someone else makes money-legally-or conducts their life and brings up their kids as a good thing-after all, most of us FReepers would be going nuclear and filing lawsuits if that happened to us-isn’t that a big part of the liberty we profess to embrace?
I think the hardest part of being in favor of free speech and liberty in general is being willing to defend the right to those things by those we do not agree with, and leave them alone just like we want them to leave us alone. We do not have the right to not be offended by anyone, or interfere with them because we do not approve of something they are doing that is legal.
If they were prostituting the kids, robbing banks, cooking meth, etc, I would be the first to yell-otherwise, I’d leave them alone, and mind my own business.
So what? They can't put all they have into a business to better their position? That seems pretty American to me. I have brought more than one business out of the ground by the bootstraps, and believe me, it takes all you have to fire it up and get it's lungs working.
The fact they are specific they "want" enough money to buy a new van for "for the children"..."new and various technological appliances", a "home built" and various other items most of us have to work for....this in light of this renovation they've been spending their money on for dogs gives me great pause.
That could just as easy be telegraphing the demands of CPS to get their kids back... And what they are asking for is a piddling bit, when it comes to construction anyway. A septic system and well will be 5-10k.
I think they believe people need to help them out of the pickle they got themselves in...
I think that's the other way around - They didn't consider themselves to be in a pickle until CPS came and took their kids from them. I would point out that the loan for finishing the business was already in place.
I won't donate because I do feel this is an attempt by the father for the public to finish setting his wife up in business so he can remain unemployed..or mr. stay at home dad.
So in your mind, he orchestrated getting his kids taken away? Really?