User talk:137.205.238.45

The scales on the graphs in this article are completely misleading and provide a distorted picture of US government debt levels.

The scale on the first graph is from 30 to 65%, thus covering a span of 30 percentage points, visually condensing the level by which debt rose in the 1980s; however, the chart posted immediately afterwards showing debt decreasing in the 1990s has a scale from 55 to 65%, thus covering a span of only 10 percentage points.

This gives the impression that debt fell much more dramatically and rapidly during the late 1990s than it actually did. This is not made clear to the reader unless they fully open up these charts - the font size is very small and the scale is not indicated in the text beneath the graph.