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2006 - +8.3 (to 106.1%) 2007 - +9.3 (to 105.0%) 2008 - +11.1 (to 110.3%) 2009 - +11.7 (to 126.8%)
The "Greeks were lying" story was also out based on the idea that their debt to GDP was at 115%.
I just don't get what you are arguing about. Fact is the debt and deficit numbers had to be retroactively revised, and always revised upwards, in every year from 2005, and always for multiple preceding years. The November 2010 revisions were just the last in the line, and, just like the previous, affected multiple years of prior data.
The yearly budget deficit at the time was considered to be in the 11% range.
The April 2010 estimate (which contains a specific note from Eurostat on reservations on the data from Greece, but with estimated magnitudes of the problem below the actual November corrections) gives -13.6% for the 2009 deficit. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Even given the revisions you cite above, they are only 4%-5% over the previous numbers prior to 2009.
At the time, Eurostat was showing that Greece was running 100-105% debt to GDP for over a decade.
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