OK I'll start
The Clinton/Gore Administration: largest surplus in history on track, paying off the Debt by 2012.
Estimate a surplus of at least $230 billion in FY2000.
Where did it go? Bush won the election and cut taxes.
US National Debt
1999 $ 5 trillion 656 billion
2009 $ 11 trillion 910 billion
2024
A growing number of billionaires lament that the system isn't fair.