"America's fiscal crisis is not that our debt ceiling isn't quite high enough — it's that we have too much debt."

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Great-News!-The-Fiscal-Crisis-Is-Over

"Imagine the green is your salary, the yellow is the amount you're spending over your salary, and the red is your MasterCard statement."

Jon Gabriel
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The dot com surplus actually really isn't, as Social Security revenues etc... were included in the accounting.