Heh...
Do try to remember who usually puts the facts and original research on the table around here.
If that mirror was any closer, you'd be fogging it up.
Incidentally, that 1 percent welfare spending number quoted in the article is absolute crap.
And the Bush tax cut revenues? 2003: $1.9 trillion. 2004: $1.95 trillion. 2005: $2.15 trillion. 2006: $2.32 trillion. 2007: $2.4 trillion.
It's kind of ironic that the people telling us the story are actually suffering from the syndrome. In fact, it's kind of an epidemic in academia.