Yes, some posters choose to ignore other facts beside KPI figures:
An excerpt from the article below from the Australian by David Uren (bold is mine):
"However Australia's deficits of the past three years, at about 4 per cent of GDP, are recession-sized, although the economy has shown continuous growth.
In 2006 and 2007, before the financial crisis, there was not a country in either the advanced or the emerging world with a deficit this large. Japan was the only country that came close. An outstanding feature of the past five years is the speed with which debt positions can deteriorate as deficits mount."
