Gross national deficit. What is the NET national deficit? Is that going down too? Net is the only number that counts.
the 'gross" means it's not adjusted for inflation (lol whats inflation?) and is in absolute dollars, not as a % of the GDP. it's just one of the statisitcal games the left likes to play and bucky is too dim to recognize.
the debt and the deficit are intertwined when when a republican can be blamed, and they are unrelated when a democrat can take credit.
all measurements are done in the most flattering way when a democrat is claiming victory, but the most damning way when a republican is being pilloried.
example 1:
bush lost hundreds of thousands of jobs with his foolish budgetary policies and mismanagement.
4 years later.....
obama has "saved or created" hundreds of thousands of jobs by continuing bush's budgetary genius.
example 2:
the price of gasoline rose under bush causing massive price increases on food and energy which fell predominantly on the poor resulting in "the loss of purchasing power" (...must...not....say...inflation...)
4 years later...
by continuing to "stay the course" with heroic courage, BHO has slain the spectre of bush's evil not "quite ready to call it inflation" by removing food and energy from the inflation measurements.
dont bother trying to find truth in bucky's belief system. it revolves around a simple premise: if you agree with bucky you are good, just honest and noble. if you disagree you are entirely and irredeemably evil.
unless you agree with him on another subject later. then you are one of the good guys.
until you disagree again later. then you are still totally evil.