I don't understand your numbers in relation to what Wikipedia has to say on the issue. How does your number relate to these? If at all?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt</a><p>2001	$144.5 billion	1.4%<p>2002	$409.5 billion	3.9%<p>2003	$589.0 billion	5.5%<p>2004	$605.0 billion	5.3%<p>2005	$523.0 billion	4.3%<p>2006	$536.5 billion	4.1%<p>2007	$459.5 billion	3.4%<p>2008	$1017.0 billion	(proj.) 7.4%<p>I think it's a shame we let Pay As You Go expire in 2002. It seemed to be working pretty well to keep spending under control.