I would certainly agree that we can do it again. As fact, we had: the .com bubble (which came to an end with a few strong survivors), a Democratic President who knew how to move from more radical positions to a more centristic stance, a Repulican Congress for several of those years who were the architects of the budget surplus (if your can really call it that) namely - Newt Gingrich, John Kasich and Dick Armey and the President actually agreed with them on their pragmatic approaches (this was even noted by, believe it or not, the New York Times and the Washington Post), and a more fiscally conservative Congress and President. Yes, we can do it again without screaming (you may want to download on your i-PAD or Kindle - The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon - kind of sounds like the folks who make the most noise in the last 60 years). This is not to mention the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 that saved billiions and added employment for poorer people. These are facts that are verifiable from census tables and the statistical abstract of the US. So, we are in agreement on this point.