I was pretty pumped around 2000…….. the economy was humming, my wages had increased at respectable rate for the last decade……taxes were as low as anytime in the last hundred years, and the projection was for a surplus……. I thought to myself…..”this is fantastic, we can actually start paying down the national debt”, it was not out of the realm of possibility for this nation to be debt free…….. but noooooo, instaed they cut taxes, ran up deficits for the next decade, everyone not among the top earners had their wages stagnate……. I am worse off now than 10 years ago…..trickle down my ass!!!!!