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To: TimF who wrote (36012)7/19/2009 12:54:26 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 71588
 
Re: "I'm focusing on the trend, there was a consistent downtrend in the debt to GDP levels...."

Yes.

(Not counting a tiny little slip under Ford), that consistent down trend wasn't reversed until Reagan.

The pay-down-national-debt trend reasserted itself under Clinton, and then back-slide again under the second Bush.