How do you go from Super Power status with a surplus to on the verge of collapse in less than 14 years ?
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Outright sabotage, treason, graft, corruption. Athens used to be the center of the universe, then Rome, then Paris or London. Washington DC had it’s day in the sun. Tomorrow it may be Beijing. The only thing constant is change.
What is this "surplus" less than 14 years ago of which you speak?
The last time there was a fiscal year in which the National Debt went down was about 1956.