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 :
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'"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?
She says I went to the build
ing and loan and told the man
what Mr. Dillon said to Con
gress about raising the debt
I says I ain't gonna sign and
she says you better If you
know what's good fur you
because you're going to ask
for a pay cut and we gotta
have a higher debt ceiling. 1
screams I ain't going to ask
for a pay cut and has she
gone clear off her rocker and
she says calm down, because
the government is thinking
about cutting taxes to pump
some more money into the
economy and that's just like
the government asking for a
pay cut. I says the only thing
I'm going to pump is my fist
into your kisser and that's the
true story of why 1 let her
have It after ten years of
matrimony.
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