You’re entirely welcome.
And thank you, in turn, for not pretending that the above exchange has actually established the validity of any of your assumptions.
One was a clerk at Marshall Field’s, the other was a hat-maker. Didn’t your grandmother ever have a job, even she was young and single?
Not that I’m aware of – she got married almost right out of high school. I’ll ask my mother, but I don’t think she ever had a paying job. She came from a dirt poor family – my great-grand parents were Polish immigrants. (My great-grandmother never even learned to speak English! SHE came to this country with absolutely nothing!)
But then she also took care of two kids while my grandfather was in Germany during WWII, (my aunt and uncle), while living with her parents.
Hey, like I said, she may not have had a paying job, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t work. Being a housewife isn’t something people should dismiss. It doesn’t make someone a sponge, or mean that someone doesn’t contribute. She did a hell of a lot in her community. People can contribute in more ways than money.
No, no, we have it on good authority that was 1968! 
CMC fnord!
Consistency is something that I really only expect from things smarter than a box of rocks.
Honestly, I wouldn’t share any of this with CS. It will just be twisted and somehow used against you in some form.
Removed
shrugs Maybe so. However, it’ll just make her look even worse. Besides, someone else maybe interested.
FWIW, I asked my mother – I was wrong in that my grandparents got married right after high school. She was twenty-one, he would have been twenty-two. And Mom thinks that Gramma worked in a sewing factory for a short time.
(Damned time limits!)
To get back on topic, without Social Security and Medicare, Gramma would definitely not be able to be so independent-- how many ninety-year olds do YOU know who still live by themselves?
So you’re advocating that people should just blindly agree to whatever criteria a company lays out just so that they can put in a job application? That’s madness. What kind of a complete idiot gives a company the entirety of their personal information without understanding clearly what they’re agreeing can be done with that information? Why should anybody be so foolish pro forma? You could be telling them to do a full criminal background check on you or telling them to sign you up for the Columbia House CD program. Clicking “I Agree” without reading the legalese is an act of brash stupidity.
Goody for you and your Fortune 500. What does that have to do with someone who’s a current jobseeker who is either a new web user or new to use of web forms, some of which are quite different from general web applications?
And so we have another thread where Curly claims her social security is not welfare but instead some form of savings scheme.
After she said no last time, maybe I can enquire as to if she has got any closer to working out how much she has paid in and how much she has got out, thus working out if she is currently a net payer or a net receiver?
Oh and if she will commit to promise to stop taking out her social security once her amount taken out reaches the amount paid in (including any adjustments for inflation)?
If not, she’s clearly sponging off the government as she doesn’t care if she takes out more than she’s “owed”.
Welcome to the Magical Land of curlcoat, where only people with six-figure savings get to reproduce! Everyone else should be forced to abort.
If people can’t figure out the difference between the noun and verb forms of a word, how do they remember to keep their hearts beating?
This from the person who in the same thread berated someone else for making a comment about sponging?
I think we should start a drinking game: take a shot every time curlcoat makes a retarded statement about how Social Security works. (Note: not just any retarded statement, or we’d be dead inside of an hour.)
Well, to keep this on a level with at least some context, her remark here was more along the lines of scoffing at the idea that civility is something one is likely to find in the Pit.
Exactly. Carol Stream scoffed at the idea of civility in the pit… after demanding it (and in reaction to something as mild as accusing **curlcoat **of sponging off her husband).
Good for you. Hopefully, you will not end up with some huge expense that your squirreled away money won’t cover, and so become one of those poor people you think cannot live without your SS funds.
Not even close, which is the sad thing. The bleeding hearts have added so many taxes that not working is becoming more attractive to more people all the time.
Not having and/or keeping children you cannot afford to raise is sick? 
I’m sure it has - there are quite a few of those sorts all over the country. OTOH, that doesn’t mean that everyone who is paying taxes is a) aware that those that receive assistance have luxuries or b) is happy with the program period.
Mine is $21.
It’s cheaper to maintain and insure two vehicles than to buy gas for the truck?
Which would make sense if, you know, had actually proved us wrong on anything substantive.
Mostly, the fact that is all he got out of that thread. Also, that I know very little of the family financial details is totally untrue, and what does my husbands Amex card and my lack of ability to cook have to do with anything?
You all seem to have a need to paint me as something that I’m not, and what that is depends on the painter. Mostly it’s funny, but sometimes it’s sad.
I’ll answer you because I don’t think you were here the last time I said this - I have spent more time than I am interested in repeating explaining what that means. Simply because you want to quibble about where the money comes from now doesn’t mean that the government didn’t take money from me for decades. Usually at a time when I could have put it to far better use, like buying food. If I had not worked all those years, they wouldn’t have been able to take that money from me, and now I want it back. Simple as that.
If I’d been able to wait until whatever age you deem appropriate to retire, you wouldn’t be quibbling about this, but all you are doing is showing the weakness of your position.
Refresh my memory… you’re against universal health care, right? :dubious:
Her story/opinion changes post to post since she’s a troll. So she’s just going to post against whatever people are arguing with her, whether that’s for UHC in one post or against it in the next.
Seriously, am I the only one seeing all the inconsistences here? There’s been so many (along with hypocritical-ness) in every thread that I cannot believe anyone can normally hold those views without purposefully trying to cause reactions or get attention.
The reactions and attention getting are bonuses. Curlcoat and Carol Stream are attention, um, paid escorts.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here - you’re saying that I should give up one of my two vehicles and thereby make getting to work harder (keeping in mind my disabled husband needs transportation to the doctor - if I have to take a day off work so he can get to the doctor our income takes and enormous hit) and negatively impact our household income? Perhaps I should sell my tools as well, and live off the profits, nevermind that that would leave me entirely unemployed!
You don’t understand that our vehicles are tools - selling one WILL drop our income.