Amos:

Your chart includes references to the first oil war and second oil war. Pure rhetoric.

If you download the underlying data, it says from government sources but dos not say where or what government.


For the national debt it has this set of numbers:

2000        5,628,700,209,886
2001        5,769,881,563,436
2002        6,198,401,456,847
2003        6,760,140,247,818
2004        7,354,673,867,424
2005        8,031,387,000,000
2006        8,707,627,000,000

I get this set of numbers from http://www.treasurydirect.gov :

2000         5,674,178,209,886.86
2001         5,807,463,412,200.06
2002         6,228,235,965,597.16
2003         6,783,231,062,743.62
2004         7,379,052,696,330.32
2005         7,932,709,661,723.50
2006         8,506,973,899,215.23

For the GDP It uses this set of "calcualted" numbers:


2005        12,227,400,000,000           
2006        12,907,300,000,000           
2007        13,617,200,000,000           
2008        14,349,000,000,000           
2009        15,111,400,000,000           
2010        15,905,200,000,000        

Form http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/tables.html I get these numbers

2005        12,290
2006         13,030
2007         13,761
2006         14,521
2009         15,296
2010        16,102

In other words your chart is way off from the truthful numbers but you don't care about the accuracy and validity of what you present as facts. You only care that it makes the administration "look bad".by any means possible.

But if you look at this chart it cearly shows the direction that the deficit is heading. However you agenda is to foil that trend by whatever means necessary. To viciously stomp out any glimmers of anything positive before it can take root.