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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (597036)	7/29/2004 3:49:48 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Let's look at the big picture: deficits as a percentage of GNP 1962 -1.2 1963 -0.8 1964 -0.9 1965 -0.2 1966 -0.5 1967 -1.1 1968 -3.0 1969 0.4 1970 -0.3 1971 -2.1 1972 -2.0 1973 -1.2 1974 -0.4 1975 -3.3 1976 -4.1 1977 -2.7 1978 -2.7 1979 -1.6 1980 -2.7 1981 -2.5 1982 -3.7 1983 -5.6 1984 -4.7 1985 -5.1 1986 -5.0 1987 -3.2 1988 -3.1 1989 -2.9 1990 -3.9 1991 -4.4 1992 -4.5 1993 -3.8 1994 -2.9 1995 -2.2 1996 -1.4 1997 -0.3 1998 0.8 1999 1.4 2000 2.5 2001 1.3 2002 -1.5 2003 -3.4 cbo.gov As I said before, Kenneth...Bush does NOT have the largest historical budget deficit as a percentage of GNP (BTW, this is the standard with respect to measuring changes in budget deficits; NOT total dollars). Too bad this doesn't fit your political agenda. But these are the facts. :) Diz-