Amount of debt accumulated by each president!

We just need to lower the taxes more on our beloved job creators, and all will be fine.

So you aren't in favor of a progressive tax system?

Der is dees ting called eem-plation.

As my maid would say.

Debt as a percent of GDP was much higher than now during and after WW2.

Nominal debt is meaningless.

hey, the bushes account for more then 50% now matter which way you adjust.... way to go dumb texans.

Trickle-down.

Nominal debt <> meaningless. Because nominal debt is what leads to debt payments, although, as your maid says, nominal debt can be inflated away (and today's PPI seems to indicate that that's exactly what's happening).

The problem is that governments should be countercyclical: paying down debt in the Good Times, and incurring it in the Bad. St. Ronald and George II did exactly the opposite.

Which is why we're screwed today.