seeing country going right and right

[RawAlex]

Colin:

End 1999 Debt: 5.656T
End 2003 debt: 7.001T (your number)

End 1999 GDP: 9.268T
End 2003 GDP: 11.252T

Increase in debt: 1.345T
increase in GDP: 1.984T

Ratio of debt increase to GDP increase (1999-2003):
67.7%

Go the other way:

1994 debt: 4.692T
1999 debt: 5.656T

199 GDP: 7.115T
End 1999 GDP: 9.268T

Increase in debt: .964T
Increase in GDP: 2.153T

Ratio of debt increase to GDP increase (1994 to 1999): 44.7%

The numbers speak clearly for themselves. that is where the "look over the last 10 years" tells a whole story.