[org.whodat]

Man, you could not be more wrong, the national debt never, ever stopped growing, the years the books were suppose to be balance, a social security lock box deal was what balanced it. But even then the the national debt grew. It only leveled off when calculated as a percentage of GDP. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_debt_chart.html

[TitansAFC]

Debt =/= Deficit We had a surplus for a few years under Newt's budget, which he had to force through. The same pages you linked indicate as much, lagging indicators and all.