realization

do you remember that in the last 4 or 5 years that all we ever heard about (besides "bush lied kids died"), was the enormous deficit that the bush administration was running up? and how that was horrible for our country? i do. every time i tried to discuss politics with people, their responses were "we're in an immoral war for oil" or "well look at how much spending bush has done" along with the "bush is always on vacation" jab. 

wake up america- why was it so wrong for the bush administration to run up a deficit, but now i hear no whining, complaining, or bitching from the media about the one we've just been granted by the "o-team"? does anyone see the illogic in this besides me? i'm sure the press will say "it had to be done, we were in a recession, blah blah blah." a deficit is a deficit. if you're going to hound one guy for increasing it- why not the next? 

let's think of it in bar tab terms- since as a grad student i find a lot of students think the bar is the best place to be, maybe they'll get this analogy. let's assume i have a gracious bartender who knows me and likes me and is willing to give me a loan every now and then so i can have a favorite brew. now, let's say my jealous friend decries this as wrong and immoral (i'm not sure why, because as my friends know- if they're out drinking with me, they're going to get a drink out of it anyway). now let's assume that i move away and a new guy takes my spot BUT still has my tab essentially. shouldn't that same jealous friend decry the fact that the new guy is running up a tab? of course he should. then why isn't he? well, it's because the new guy is just that- the new guy. let's give him the benefit of the doubt!  (okay- cue the fact that people didn't realize my last sentence was sarcasm in 3...2...1...now). 

maybe that didn't make perfect sense...but it does to me and that's all that matters.