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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:28 pm    Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Knight_of_BAAWA wrote:
Jason_Harvestdancer wrote:

The national debt went up every year, even under Clinton. The increase slowed, but he it went up. The bottom line shows there was no surplus. If there was a surplus the debt would have gone down, not up.

BarkAtTheMoon wrote:
This page says otherwise. According to their data, since WWII the debt as a percentage of GDP has only increased during the Reagan and Bush family's administrations.

That's as a % of the GDP. The debt itself can go up while the % relative to the GDP goes down.


Indeed.

Now if he had made a different argument, he might have had an argument. If you calculate the debt in inflation adjusted dollars instead of total dollars, you will notice that for 2000 and 2001 the debt declined.. That's a much more valid adjustment than percentage of GDP.

Actual commentary on the entire debt, which is 400% of GDP



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