The reason there are so many dual income families

According to american family radio (dobson's all hate all the time radio show) Husbands "force" their wives to work so they can buy boats and trucks and large screen TV's and other male toys. This obviously takes the wife out of the kitchen where she belongs. She then must contend with looking presentable in the workplace which costs money. I'm not making this up. About 15 minutes a day of there crap is all one needs to get a compass reading.

the dual income families generally pool their incomes and fritter them away on non-essentials like rent and groceries.

Yeah, wasteful citizens, buying heat in the winter and insurance and such.

:silly:

Did they ever stop and think that with falling wages and increasing prices for all goods across the board that it takes two incomes for most families to just get by.

Exactly. Psychopath Dobson is trying to hide the fact that a lot of jobs don't pay a living wage, so in most cases it's not a choice for the woman to stay @ home. I don't hear that mofo calling for a hike in wages!

In the area I live, rent alone (no utilities) on a studio apartment is 50% of my monthly income. After budgeting for food, gas, car insurance, health insurance, etc. I'd be lucky to nestegg $400 for the month. If I were to add a wife and child to support, I wouldn't even be able to pay the rent on the living space, let alone buy food for the child.

In most cases, both parents work now because they have to. I'd love to see Dobson live on a 9-5 income for a year or two. Or better yet, support two other people on it.

I manage to nestegg about $25/month. Working 1 1/2 jobs. And I have only two vices -- $20/month I spend on prev viewed DVDs, and eating.

I've since acquired potential roomates.

so they can buy food, clothing and shelter. At least around here.

and I'm just me.

State employee, I need 1 1/2 jobs just to pay the bills.

It's like hanging your head over a cesspit every day to see if the stink has changed.

I'm sure there are a lot of women who work all day for a pittance and come home exhausted and have to cook, clean, launder, baby tend, and put up with a recliner chair that burps (thanks for the image, Roseanne) who are his fans because just limiting themselves to one exhausting job seems like heaven, even if that job is unpaid.

The poor dummies simply don't realize that the reason they're out there scratching for pennies is because males in this country have seen a huge decline in real wages since the mid 1960s. They don't realize that having to do it all is because of men like Dobson who tell their husbands that yes, they're ENTITLED to a full time, unpaid domestic servant.

Feminism was all about choice. We wanted to be able to choose between outside work and being home makers. Declining wages coerced us into fulfilling both roles, and having it all meant doing it all.

Most people who live like this vote the same way Dobson does. What's his point? I think we can all agree the world would be a better place if Dick Cheney's wife stayed home and baked instead of lying on TV, but isn't that her choice? :shrug:

Let's just put aside the reality that real wages for the middle- and working-class have been steadily declining for decades now, and the other nasty reality of skyrocketing housing costs and talk about the modern world.

Many of us don't just view work as a hateful thievery of our leisure time; many of us LOVE what we do for a living and don't feel quite right if not plying our trade. The wimmin-folk have some of these same feelings, since the sexes are equal.

Even those who demand to keep the divide drawn by pointing out the structural differences of the minds of men and women need to address this scientific fact: brain researchers agree that even with the TENDENCIES toward structural differences (principally the larger corpus collosum, and hence better hemispheric communication in women) the statistical difference between men's brain structure and women's is less than the standard difference of height, or less than 7 percent.

Deal with individuals. If you're in a circle of people that are evenly split along gender lines and you tell a joke that only one of the other gender laughs at, your mind is more like that person's than any of those of your own sex. Think about it. Thinking is good. Unfortunately, thinking tends to tear down all sorts of rigid rules, and that's why extremely religious people hate it.

Women working are not necessarily forced to do so by men, and those who say they are are assholes. Those who demand that everyone else's lives mirror their own are stunted semi-people; I like to call them "conservatives".

What poppycock.

Now, back to reality: the monied elites are ritualistically destroying unions as well as any other forces that allow others to actually make any money, and the NEED for two-earner households is everywhere.

Not only that, different couples have different abilities and tastes. I know quite a few stay-at-home dads; I'd love to hear what vitriol he has to spew on these curs.

Conservatism explained: agree completely with me, or cease to exist.