The Budget

"I've decided," Lilly told me recently.  "I'm going to be like the government."

"You mean; deceitful, dishonest, immoral, evil?" I countered.

"No, I mean I'm going to spend way over my budget.

"For 15 years, we have maintained a strict budget...we have saved and tried not to over spend.  If we wanted a big ticket item, we saved for it.

I'm tired of it." she said.

"So, I'm going to spend freely - just like our lousy government."

And, then the conversation abruptly ended, presumably for Lilly to go spend some money!