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Under Bush the Second, the national debt has risen from 57% of the GNP
to 65% of the GNP. As a percentage of the GNP, he has run up the debt
as a percentage of the GNP to as high a humber as we have seen since
Bush the First was in office, and almost as high as when Eisenhower
took office and we were still paying off WWII.


Nice try, Chuck. But Debt as a percentage of GDP peaked in 1995 and 1996,
when it was 67.2 and 67.3% respectively.

It was over 70% when Eisenhower was in office...and never topped 65% until
1994 when Clinton was in office.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget...6/pdf/hist.pdf

(see Table 7.1...which is on page 119)