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Economies are bigger than they have ever been too, GDP is higher than ever, when you look at like that it's hardly surprising that records are continually broken.
I know the situation is less than ideal but this sort of thing just proves how meaningless stats are when you're not comparing apples with apples.
Last edited by gingerjedi; 31 January 2009, 22:16.
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Economies are bigger than they have ever been too, GDP is higher than ever, when you look at like that it's hardly surprising that records are continually broken.
I know the situation is less than ideal but this sort of thing just proves how meaningless stats are when you're not comparing apples with apples.
That's not true in this case. The measure is the proportion of debt to the GNP. That is not directly dependent on the size of the economy, so it is meaningful.
There are also more people alive today than have ever died. Fact.
Fact: A majority of people have more than the average number of limbs.
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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