Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > The true "lying bitches," fools and fear-mongers are leftists like > Krimel. The U.S. debt as a percentage of GNP is actually less now > than under presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower and has barely > increased at all under the Bush administration. > > [Arlo] > Please see the debt-GDP chart provided at Wikipedia. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Public_debt_per_GDP_1791-2006.svg
Please see the debt-GDP chart at wiki that tells a somewhat different story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._public_debt > You will see that from WWII to 1980, the ratio steadily decreases (a > good thing), but that beginning in 1980, the ratio increases non-stop > until about 1994, where it decreases somewhat until 2000, when it > begins to grow once again. > > That is, since Raygun took office, the percentage of our debt to GDP > has increased quickly and without stopping, except for during the > Clinton years. Under Bush Jr., the ratio has again increased. And I > don't know what you mean by "barely increased" under Bush, but if you > look at the chart, you see that its at least 5% points, which is not > insignificant. But true, compared to the lunacy of the Raygun and > Pappy Bush years, Bush Jr.'s increase is lesser, I'll give you that. > > When Carter left office, this ratio was at about 38%. By the end of > the Raygun years, it was about 58%, and by the end of Pappy Bush it > was pushing 70%. > > Although it continued to rise in the early Clinton years, when > Clinton left office it had been reduced to around 58%. Under Bush Jr. > it is back up to 63%. > > So I am not sure what point you had in bringing this ratio into it, > but it certainly is evident under which recent presidents this ratio > has improved, and under which it has worsened. What is shows is the hysteria about the national debt is phony-baloney. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
