Pete
Repete
Last Friday afternoon, I got a call form the ex. Seems that she has been getting the food stamps, (she claims just while boy is visiting for the summer) but they cut her off and she needed me to fax a letter to the state saying that she had him for the summer and I was not paying his daycare so they would turn them back on.
Aside form it being sad that she is on welfare, and had to out the fact to me, and had to ask me to help her keep it, I could not help but think this morning when I was typing the letter to the state. Being a conservative most of you already know my take on welfare. I was thinking, he is my kid and I make good money. I pay for everything for him, medical, dental, daycare, clothes, food, and anything else. She gets him for 8-10 weeks and cannot afford to feed a 7 year old? Anyway, now it will be the tax payers of DE who feed my kid for the summer despite my good income. Granted he is her kid too and in her custody right now but I just feeling guilty, not guilty enough to send her a check because ontop of everything else she is only 2 years behind and making no effort to pay her child support to me, but guilty none the less. Perhaps I should offer to have boy come home for the rest of the summer.
Oh yea and this morning she called to let me know he needs new glasses and how to go about getting them so I can pay for them.
Aside form it being sad that she is on welfare, and had to out the fact to me, and had to ask me to help her keep it, I could not help but think this morning when I was typing the letter to the state. Being a conservative most of you already know my take on welfare. I was thinking, he is my kid and I make good money. I pay for everything for him, medical, dental, daycare, clothes, food, and anything else. She gets him for 8-10 weeks and cannot afford to feed a 7 year old? Anyway, now it will be the tax payers of DE who feed my kid for the summer despite my good income. Granted he is her kid too and in her custody right now but I just feeling guilty, not guilty enough to send her a check because ontop of everything else she is only 2 years behind and making no effort to pay her child support to me, but guilty none the less. Perhaps I should offer to have boy come home for the rest of the summer.
Oh yea and this morning she called to let me know he needs new glasses and how to go about getting them so I can pay for them.