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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. AUGUST 3. 1962 Deficit Financing, Raising of Debt Ceiling Brings Sock in Eye After 10 Years of Marriage Editor ! Notei Here ii light - AHTlid di.cu.sion of family financing In ttrmi of the federal budget. i than men and from now on she is going to run our budget. I got the Yankees at Cleve land on the TV and Donovan has this three and two count I shouldn't have socked her , ' "J! 'up l"! ; tvm uj- j tilth with no score and two By HARRY FERGUSON Washington - lUPIt - So okay the eye us being married ten with 1 on so I didn't pay much at' y e a r s tention when she sticks this almost , niece Of DaDpr in front nf mp no trouble but and says sign here, 'he's off p.-.-.i On Ihic 1;L- - '.w..y Soon as I sign I can see govern ment does and vjgj when she says H.rry Ftriuion guua asK lor a pay cut to pump money into the economy I let her have it. She's reading this magazine where it says a woman called Elizabeth Rudel Smith is treasurer of the United States and signs her name on dollar bills and she says she always knew women was smarter kick : l k A .. . - - u u u run- .- in ,,,, , ,,, w j: '"g Ur budg" land loan for a thousand bucks ei me way land she sv ihi i. Hofiit t. the govern-I nannino iA u.hai i. f Uncle Samuel is good for us. I says what's wrong with our budget now a hundred a week take home pay which takes care of the mortgage and the installments on the TV and the car and even five bucks a week for the savings bank but she says its a bal anced budget and under some conditions it's a cleeshay to say a balanced budget is good. I says cleeshay or no cleeshay i what s the sense of borrowing dough when you're doing okay as is and she says make up your mind whether you want to drop anchor or sail on. No Vegetable Garden So Saturday I'm out in the j yard to look at the vegetable garden and nothing ain't been planted and I asked her about it and she says she paid the i Elliott boy next door five smackers not to plant our vegetables and I says that's crazy and she says if you don't take acreage out of pro duction you have uncontrol lable surpluses and who do you think you are. Orville Freeman or Ezra Taft Ben son maybe? So I'm in front of the TV Thursday night having a beer and humming along with Mitch when she turns it off and says we got to talk about balances of payment and it can't wait for the program to finish. I says what the hell balance of payments and she says it's money going out of the country and coming in and am I just going to sit there listening to Mitch while the U.S. stock of gold is drain ed away? I says she and I ain't got no gold to be drained away and she says ha ha. that's what you think and she opens up this box and puns out and maybe spending a week , pression that you can't stop , a month and keeping our gold i ceiling and then I says to the of the vacation up in Canada, the Commies in Yugoslavia away from the Swiss yodelers ' man, how about a little rais- ,,u ! because they already own it and I says why not and she I , . , , , looks at me lik. I'm a riumhland how about that, madame and not planting vegetables ! ing of the debt ceiling for me and looking for tiny cracks in I and he says why certainly ma- cluck and says something : president? You can tell she i the Iron Curtain. about the external flow of ! has been reading some books j Raises Debt Ceiling funds. I says I don't know what that is but I'm going fishing in Canada and she says you can't spend money dam, would another thousand I be all right and just have or magazines or papers be cause she gets a dreamy look in her eye and says who She says I'll betcha never . your husband sign here. "YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO GAMBLE WITH A CHEAP ROQFJ2 I says whose fishing trip is . I says to her what about the this and who says I can't go j bills and she says everything in Canada. What we got to knows wnen a tiny crack in bracelet and necklace and I n is gel people from Canada " -"" win Krow says migawd how much did ; " come down here and spend I lnl gateway to freedom? you drv for them? She says : money. ' Come the first of the month four hundred and twenty smackers and I start yelling bloody murder and she says shut up I suppose you would rather see this gold drained away to the Bank of England or one of the Swiss places. I says I got just one question lo ask and she says ask not what your country can do for you but what can you do for your country and slams the door on the way to bed. So couple days later I'm thinking about going fishing to Canada and she says, shut up, I already spent the fish ing trip money and I says for what? She says I sent it to Yugoslavia as part of our for eign aid budget and here you want to go upsetting the bal ance of payment by running off to Canada when the Com mies got to be stopped. I says sarcastic like, sure women is smarter than men, but it has been my feeble minded im- is okay and taken care of and I says I am not a nosey man but I happen to be the guy earning this money and how's about me seeing the budget? She says there's no use you looking at it because it ain't on of them cleeshay budgets and you wouldn't understand. 1 says maybe so but I got a bad feeling we're in the hole what with paying off the building and loan at 98 bucks heard of lifting the debt ceil ing and I says no and she says well the great Unlled States of America does it all the time and borrows some more money and right now the debt celling is 300 umpteen billion dollars if you would like to put that in your pipe and smoke it. I says thank God you can't get your hands on the with holding or I would have tax trouble with the United States of America and anyway what has 300 umpteen billion dol lars got to do with us? 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