By now, I assume everyone who isn’t comatose has heard about the Standard & Poor's downgrading of the USA’s economic stability from AAA to AA+. Despite the White House feverishly working to spin the news for we-the-proletariat--and hinting that ‘it really means nothing’--I suspect there is much celebrating going on behind the scenes. Since ratings were established, this is the first time in History that the United States of America has been downgraded.
