So it’s a rainy day in Georgia and I don’t want to finish the monotonous programming task on my agenda and I tried to look up Federal Deficits for our whole history. The GDP wasn’t around for "correction" before around 1930, and there was very little available pre 1900. This is 1800 – present with the deficit as a percentage of the revenue [which doesn’t really correct things]. All that matters is "down" or "up." The overall deficit from 1850 to 1900 is mostly from the Civil War. Look at the "monster dip" for WWI under Woodrow Wilson.
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