you get is a greater debt. now, look at the decifit as a share of gross domeec product. this is a five year model on the screen. look what happened between 08 and 09. look at that jump. and it stayed up there in 2010 and 2011, stuart. it s a danger signal. that s telling you that the decifit, the amount of money that we re borrowing to keep the economy going, borrowing, is way up there by historical standards. in the last three years, we have gotten into territory that we ve not been in since the second world war, that is a danger signal for the financial costs that we are course that we are on, 8.6% of gdp, that is the share of the decifit in our overall economy, danger signal, not sustainable, period. no economic growth to show for it. bill: to the novice observer, what that shows you is the hole is only getting deeper, we re not digging out, are we? the hole is getting deeper because we are
accumulating debt. we now have 14 trillion, $700 billion worth of accumulated debt. okay? that is huge. that is precisely the same size as our overall economy. you are getting pretty close to greek level, european levels. it s a huge danger signal. bill: that it is, hello, good morning alence. this is shaping up not just to be a business story but a major political issue now over the next 13 months. stuart, thank you for that, see you at 9:20, fbn, all right? yes. martha: varney, then we ve got herman cain, folks, going toe to toe with president obama and winning. according to the rasmussen reports poll for the first time, we are seeing numbers like this, folks, herman cain at 43 percent, president obama at 41 percent. cain will be a prime target, you can bet, tonight at the debate that s going on in las vegas this evening. we re going to have a preview for you on who needs to do what in that debate tonight. look for rick perry to try to get back on the map