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Honestly, I don't care if she works or not. Her not having a job means somebody who actually NEEDS the work has that job instead, yes?
My boyfriend's aunt is the wife of a former marine and current military contractor. He spends 6-8 months a year overseas on assignment. She doesn't work. So what does she do with her time? She maintains the house, she works out, she goes shopping. But you know what else she does? She heads the local chapter for a group that focuses on transitioning returning soliders into the private sector and on aiding the families of soldiers who are currently deployed. She spends probably 40-50 hours a week organizing events and fundraisers, helping with administrative tasks, meeting with those who are being helped by the program, etc.
And when she isn't working with the volunteer group she's here in Texas spending time with her grand children and grown daughter. And I really appreciate that, being somebody who personally never got much time with her grandparents.
And you know....who cares if she didn't volunteer. She and her husband are perfectly okay with their arrangement, and they're the only people that really matter. They aren't using entitlement programs or sapping off the system to survive, so I say let 'em do what they want to do.
If he wasn't running for president and potentially representing our entire nation and making choices that will effect every single hard working woman in this nation or every stay at home mom who DOES want to go back to work I wouldn't be taking note at all and wondering about just what he would do if faced with legislation, etc.
Yeah - it does bother me that we're trying ot move forward in regard to women in the workplace and society in general but every republican woman possibly to be first-lady in the last years is the exact opposite of that.
The first lady doesn't just look pretty - she's quite busy, involved with many things - and she and the few women in the higher end of politics are all we have as a hedge into the rest of the world. So yeah: that bothers me a lot - I'm abit afraid we'll reverse our progress if she starts representing us in the world.