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All is Vanity See other All is Vanity Articles Title: When Child Support Nazi's Attack... Man, I can't believe it. I don't know if it's in response to a budget crisis or what, but a neighboring country here has changed their CS payment policy from monthly to weekly. Every week, without fail. Payments fall on a monday now. You have the money or it's 40 days in jail. That's right.. 40 days. Get paid bi-weekly? tough! Cough it up lo0ser, or its 40 days in the slam for you.. You, you, bi-weekly paid, no account, deadbeat dad, criminal you! A guy I know who stops in to collect scrap is going in for 40 days over this he told me today. Now he WAS a machinist (Yes, for real.) till he lost his job, so he collects scrap to help pay bills while he job hunts. (He was job hunting today when he stopped in to see if there was any scrap to come back after later.) So, he's reduced to a kind of rodent-ish type of existence. Mice run after bread crumbs and this guy runs around sniffing out scrap metal.. As you can imagine, this scrap metal deal is a feast or famine kind of thing.. (Mostly famine, but even a blind squirrel gets lucky every now and again.) so it can be difficult to make a budget.. To put it mildly. He was doing okay on the bi-weekly schedule, because he had a longer period of time to find enough scrap to support himself and pay the bill. But they cracked down and now it's Monday morning OR ELSE! If he has a slow week, it's just tough shit, you go to jail. The chick his ex is with now makes REALLY good money, so does his ex herself and so does his son.. He's a power plant welder and bills out at thirty two bucks an hour. So, it's not like anyone in their family is going to frekking starve if they let the guy pay every two weeks, ya know? Then I have another friend, a chick.. She gets all the health care for her two kids paid for by the state. The state sent her to college (She now has an associates degree in computer programming, which she couldn't ACTUALLY DO at gunpoint) She's talking about RETURNING to college to get ANOTHER DEGREE through the same program. The state paid her child care, the state paid to fix her car. The state paid for her clothes and a sleep test-evaluation thing of some kind because she complained about migraines.. She works when she wants, which isn't allot and it's always part time. So here's this guy doing one of the most physically demanding jobs I can think of, on a shoe string budget, with no support AT ALL, to make ends meet.. If he's late paying, he goes to jail, loses his place to live, loses everything and gets dumped back on the street with nothing but 40 days worth of bills he can't pay and a deadline of the following monday to pay his support. If he finds a job tomorrow, he'll lose that too. Why even bother to look? Then we've got this chick, and they sent her to COLLEGE.. for crying out loud! To teach her computer programming! Something she STILL can't do! You may as well pay to teach a badger to play the harmonica. Her degree is completely worthless, and even she admits as much. It's just sad..
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#5. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
My ex wife knows that trying to screw me over any kind of late child support payments would not net any positive result for her. She would never see another penny, ever.
No shit. In a situation like this one, go 40 days in jail and you can lose everything you have.. Your job, your apartment or rented house, if that's your situation.. Then what? You've got someone you screwed out of a job, a place to live and laid a months worth of bills on them.. Who REALLY thinks they are going to be there, johnny on the spot, with the next payment? They're homeless & jobless for crying out loud.. What CAN they do?
#7. To: Jhoffa_ (#6)
I can disappear from the face of the earth forever. :)
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