"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Percentage of debt to GDP.
Bow-gus!
Check out the graph on GDP to debt ratio.
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/release...2003charts.pdf
In billions of dollars:
1997 GDP: 8,318.4
2002 GDP: 10446.2
That's a nice 26.28% increase isn't it?
The national debt rose by 14.29% in the same period.