The, "I Don't Get It Dept."

There are a lot of things I just don't get. Maybe it's because I'm getting older and my attention span is about one gazillionth of a second. Like, take out the garbage dear, which I never hear my wife utter, along with feed the cats, don't forget to put the toilet seat down, and isn't this a pretty dress while we're shopping at Wal Mart. But some things, which I confess I have no control over, do sink in. Take for instance a comment by Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah just this past week. Hatch was apparently upset over the possibility of big government health care expansions and how it will add to the ever growing federal deficit. He was asked by a reporter from the Associated Press the difference between six years ago during the Bush administration when they approved a major Medicare expansion that added tens of billions of dollars to the federal deficit compared to the proposed cost of the proposed Obama health care plan now before Congress. His comment: Six years ago, "It was standard practice not to pay for things. We were concerned about it, because it certainly added to the deficit, no question." Essentially he is saying that was then, this is now. (Charles Babington AP)

So let me see, with my limited attention span, if I understand this correctly. It was okay six years ago to spend all kinds of money and add to the federal deficit, but now it's not okay to spend all kinds of money and add to the federal deficit. I think I'm missing something here.

Maybe if I look at this with regard to my own finances I'll understand it better. If I owed $500 bucks on my credit card, didn't pay it last month, charged another $500 bucks this month, and still didn't pay it, and continued to do that month after month until I die, it's okay, because my wife will pay for it in the end because that was then and this is now? Hmmmm, I kinda like that concept. Thanks Senator Hatch.