B
-- you, you don't spend more than you, than you bring in.
A
Yeah, I think that, the general idea is to s, you know, spend, uh, during a time of recession that, you know, for the deficit spending to help pick up the economy, but they're running under the assump-, you know, the way they're running it now, they're h-, you know, running it under a deficit spending, you know, while we're not under a recession, so there's never any surplus coming in to counter the deficit that we're running, so that's kind of a basic thing of economics, I guess, keep spending, keep going into debt, you're not going to payoff what you owe, but, so, I guess the, the question was more like, uh, do you get what you pay f-, you know, get what you pay for.
B
Well, I, it just depends. Uh, uh, roads are very expensive, uh, commodity and so is, uh, utilities they supply and police and fire department, uh, you know, they need to make a living.
A
Yeah. There's,
B
So, I think for, for, for many years, uh, we've paid teachers and police officers and firemen who are, uh, to a great extent, public servants --
A
Uh-huh.