Just in case your post was on purpose... Personally I think our Country's growth economically has declined far more rapidly than our population growth. This doesn't bode well for us Gen X/Y's who will inherit all this debt with most factory type jobs eliminated outside this country and agro type jobs becoming wholly dependent on illegal labor and foreign corporations owning the over-farmed land rights here. Plus the first of the Boomers are now starting to retire and enter the final state of our lives. There will be more jobs for a spell but the boomer generation is so much larger than Gen X/Y that we will have a hard time avoiding further massive debt. Frankly, it's why I'm collecting coins. for what its worth...