Nice try though. You had a couple of right wingers hootin' and hollerin'
and
rootin you on. Guess they'll believe anything they see in print that
verifies a
preconception.

Nice try yourself.
I used actual dollars, you used the CPI (Chained price index).
When comparing the percent of national debt to GDP the CPI is not used. To
compute the GDP/Debt ratio you must use actual dollars

Funny how you want to use a CPI number to lower the GDP, but still use the
actual debt dollars.
If you reduced the dollar value of the outstanding debt using the same CPI,
you would still arrive at my numbers, not yours.

BTW using your skewed numbers the 1997 debt is only 0.19% less than 2002.