### Comment:
hes not 'stripping' anything.  it would be like saying you earn 5k a month, but youre borrowing 6K each month (and not paying it back). so in reality youre just losing 1k a month

### REPLY:
No, that analogy doesn't work. The analogy would be you earn $5k, wife earns $5k. You spend $6k, she spends $4k. Household income is $10k. 
  
 Now you want to strip out your deficit and talk about how income is lower.. makes no sense..

### END.