Well, it sounds like I said the same thing about ten minutes ago, so yes, of course, I agree, but I want to temper that with the following.
Our surpluses have been absolutely astounding over the last seven years under both governments—just so you people on both sides of the table know that we've had this budgeting process that creates large surpluses. It's a little bit odd. You've got lots of different things built in there for prudence and conservatism. So I'm thinking that the budget process isn't necessarily as fine-tuned as it could be. And, yes, we need some squishy room in there to deal with things that we aren't expecting; if we got some sort of avian flu, or whatever, we'd have a real economic bounce.
But I think budgets should maybe be looked at again, because if we keep generating $10 billion and $13 billion surpluses, we will effectively have overtaxed everyone around this table and everybody out there.