[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Arlo offered a chart that I countered with another. Let's see your three more.

[Arlo]
Actually, the charts are identical. Same numbers. Same ratios. Same years.

Here they are side by side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:USDebt.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Public_debt_per_GDP_1791-2006.svg

Exactly the same. To recap from both, identical graphs.

You will see that from WWII to 1980, the ratio steadily decreases (a 
good thing), but that beginning in 1980, the ratio increases non-stop 
until about 1994, where it decreases somewhat until 2000, when it 
begins to grow once again.

When Carter left office, this ratio was at about 38%. By the end of 
the Raygun years, it was about 58%, and by the end of Pappy Bush it 
was pushing 70%.

Although it continued to rise in the early Clinton years, when 
Clinton left office it had been reduced to around 58%. Under Bush Jr. 
it is back up to 63%.