Sadly, I have come to know Butterfly's MO now and assumed that his financial 'knowledge' extended to the Wikipedia.
So, looking at the Wiki figures, one could be lulled into a false sense of comparative debt, which the naive Butterfly has. The CIA-compiled rank of countries debt per GDP is marked as disputed. Butterfly would have ignored or not noticed this, so would not have discovered that centrally in the dispute over the US figures is this:
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Yeah, I just checked and the CIA web site and it's being CIA-ish. They use a special formula for the US as opposed to other coutrnies and only count public federal debt which gives off a much lower percentage. By the way, the wikipedia article on the US public debt also only measures the federal public debt. Who knows, maybe the CIA got their information off of that page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.222.140 (talk) 22:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC) |
Not noticing this, Butterfly then raced to post the post above.
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