DEBT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms#cite_note-8

Economist Mike Kimel notes that the five former Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry S. Truman) all reduced public debt as a share of GDP, while the last four Republican Presidents (George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford) all oversaw an increase in the country’s indebtedness.^[2] Economic historian J. Bradford DeLong, former Clinton Treasury Department official, observes a contrast not so much between Republicans and Democrats, but between Democrats and "old-style Republicans (Eisenhower and Nixon)" on one hand (decreasing debt), and "new-style Republicans" on the other (increasing debt).^[3][4]

Bruce Bartlett, former domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and Treasury official under President George H.W. Bush, attributes the increase in the national debt since the 1980s to the policy of "starve the beast" and an aversion for tax increases.^[5][6] Similarly, David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, as op-ed contributor to the New York Times, blamed the "ideological tax-cutters" of the Reagan administration for the increase of national debt during the 1980s.^[7]

Using nominal dollar measures, CNN's Jack Cafferty and CBS's Mark Knoller have noted that the US national debt has increased more rapidly under President Obama than under any other U.S. president, and that it had increased by $4 trillion since the beginning of his term of office.^[8][9]

 

 

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/short-term-cost.html

http://seekingalpha.com/article/174445-comparing-debt-to-gdp-ratios-with-presidential-terms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms#cite_note-2

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01stockman.html?_r=1

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/03/fiscal-responsibility-party-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/187725/20110727/economic-another-old-school-republican-bruce-bartlett-says-heavy-tax-cuts-are-large-contributor-to-d.htm

Economist Mike Kimel notes that the five former Democratic Pres. all reduced public debt as a share of GDP, while the last four Republican Pres. oversaw an increase in the country’s indebtedness. Economic historian J. Bradford DeLong observes a contrast not so much between Republicans and Democrats, but between Democrats and "old-style Republicans (Eisenhower and Nixon)" on one hand (decreasing debt), and "new-style Republicans" (Reagan, Bush I, Bush II) on the other (increasing debt).

A former domestic policy adviser to Pres.Reagan and Treasury official under Pres. Bush I, attributes the increase in the national debt since the 1980s to the policy of "starve the beast" and an aversion for tax increases. The director of the OMB under Pres. Reagan blamed the "ideological tax-cutters" of the Reagan administration for the increase of national debt during the 1980s.

UPC Facts:

In response to Indy-Info article

http://www.adams1.com/upccode.html 

What are the country codes?

Lots of people have requested the codes. Here is a partial list. Remember, it indicates the country that issued the code, NOT THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF THE PRODUCT. The abbreviation "MO" stands for Member Organization. The meaning of the prefixes ""020-029", "040-049" and "200-299" are set by the GS1 administration in a given country. GS1-US has defined these prefixes as for internal use in, for example, warehouses. The authoritative list is here.

 http://www.upccode.net/?engine=adwords!111&match=exact&keyword=upc+USA&gclid=COWLxMzQrKICFQLHsgodbHT8Pw

Yes, we can supply barcodes to companies located outside of the USA. Our barcodes are valid worldwide.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code

Interpreting barcodes

• EAN-13 barcodes also indicate the country in which the company that sells the product is based (which may or may not be the same as the country in which the good is manufactured). The leading digits of the code determine this, according to this code list. The EAN-13 encoding rules encode the leading 13th digit by modifying the encoding of the left-hand half of the barcode: the original rules for UPC are treated as a '0' if read as EAN-13. A UPC barcode XXXXXXXXXXXX therefore is the EAN-13 barcode 0XXXXXXXXXXXX.

http://www.adams1.com/faq.html#upccountry

Does the barcode number indicate the country of origin of a product?

No it doesn't. The 3-digit prefix code indicates which GS1 numbering organization has allocated the block of numbers to the company. Once the company has been assigned the block of numbers, they self assign each individual number in the block to a given product. For example, a company may have it's headquarters in South Africa. The GS1 organization in South Africa has the code "600", but all the products of the company may be manufactured in England. The English-made products would still have the "600" prefix code. The prefix code is a way to have 70-plus GS1 member organizations issuing numbers without having to worry about duplicate numbers. The 3-digit prefix indicates the country of the GS1 organization that issued the block of numbers, not the country of origin of the product. GS1 (the international organization that administers UPC and EAN) has a clear statement that the prefix DOES NOT indicate the country of origin of the product. A list of country codes can be found on the UPC & EAN Page.

 http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/barcodes.asp

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/barcodes.htm