Check out this National Debt Clock…..and then some!
For us chart and number geeks this page is like a super buffet of gee whiz discussion stats.
Can’t vouch for all of the numbers, but then again when the debt is $11,611,928,760,840 what is a couple billion between constituents. Have some fun and make this your homepage.
Background (past research shared on our blog):
1. What is the National Debt and how did it get started?
2. Want to learn about what you can do as an average citizen?
Full list of stats displayed:
US National Debt
- Debt per citizen
- US spending (year to date)
- Spending per citizen (year to date)
- Budget Deficit (year to date)
- Est. Medicare fraud (year to date)
US Gross Domestic Product
US Tax Revenue Year to Date
- Income Tax
- Payroll Tax
- Corporate Tax
- Duties/Other
Largest Budgetary Items
- Defense/Wars
- Social Security
- Medicare/Medicaid
- Interest on the National Debt
Greatest Hits from the Financial Meltdown
- US government bailouts
- Est. currency and credit derivatives (don’t have much faith in this estimation, we need to talk about it to get a better understanding)
- Loss of household debt
US private debt
Credit card debt
Est. Medical debt
Private debt per US citizen
US population [ with undocumented illegal friends ]
Official unemployed number
Actual unemployed number { No fewer than 1.4 million people wanted or were available for work in the last 12 months but were not counted. Why? Because they hadn’t searched for work in the four weeks preceding the survey, learn more here }
Number of foreclosures in 2009
Number of bankruptcies in 2009
Trade Numbers
- US debt held by foreign countries
- US trade deficit (year to date)
- US trade deficit with China
- Imported Oil (year to date)
- Imported Oil (OPEC)
Total amount of unfunded liabilities
- Liability per citizen
- Medicare/medicaid liability
- Social Security liability
- Prescription drug liability
Check it out if you have a minute….and the stomach.
Enjoy!
- If you haven’t already, I recommend reading our original post on the national debt and how it came about.
- $74 trillion is a mighty large number. Visual artist Chris Jordan works to put some important numbers into perspective with his work. I recommend watching his TED Talk.
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so you posted this on wednesday, and I just checked it out, as a nation we've accrued over $7billion in debt in 2 days?!
GO US!