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| | National Debt |
 | | During Reagan/Bush1, the national debt not only went up significantly (over 400%), but the overall shape of the curve is concave upward (2nd derivative >0, or in other words, it not only went up, but the *rate* at which it was going up also increased over the course of the administrations... |
 | | During Clinton, the national debt kept increasing, but the shape of the curve is concave downward (2nd derivative <0, or in other words, the rate at which it was going up decreased over the course of the administration, or in English, "Progress was being made toward reigning in out-of-control borrowing." |
 | | that they had paid down some of the federal debt, for one, as well as some very humorous charts showing the ever-increasing "surplus" all the way out to 2010 or so). |
| www.numberboy.org /debt/debt1.1dw.html (230 words) |
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