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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (40958)	2/5/2010 1:23:53 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

And then Obama is going to be the first president to increase it by an even larger amount. And then someone else after him is likely to be the first again, and so on. Nominal dollar figures aren't particularly meaningful here. In deficits as a percentage of GDP you have (since the end of WWI, I don't have WWI and earlier figures, it could be since the beginning of the country) #1 FDR, #2 Obama, 3# Reagan (with Reagan being a big drop off from Obama. I'm not sure about #4 offhand, but it would not surprise me if it was Bush II.