NATIONAL DEBT (USA)
| No need to argue online or in debates or in TV ads about little things like the War on Iraq, or how little international respect is left for America's foreign policy, etc. Let's just concentrate on the monster created by Dubya's "play now, pay later" tax policy — which your children (and grandchildren) will pay for.... |
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U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK (brillig.com)
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Frequently Asked Questions - U.S. National Debt Clock (brillig.com)
U.S. National Debt Clock
Terrifyingly FAST real-time auto-updating; needs JAVA; confused editorial content.
UWSA National Debt Clock
Steady text-only auto-updating; needs JAVASCRIPT; good editorial content.
"U.S. Public Debt" (comprehensive resources & links from Wikipedia.org)
Bureau of the Public Debt "to the penny" (U.S. Dept. of the Treasury)
No frills, text only, just the facts. Lots of commas.
"Interest on National Debt" - Detailed analysis of how uncontrolled spending and huge tax cuts put the government deeply in debt, so all U.S. citizens end up paying long-term interest+principal far greater than what we would have simply paid in taxes. Great quote here! "It takes ALL the taxes paid by ALL the individual taxpayers west of the Mississippi River just to pay the Interest on the National Debt each year."
"Federal Budget Spending and the National Debt"
Conservative hardball attack on federal spending excess, the "other half" of the problem.
"America's Total Debt Report"
Grandpa takes off the kid gloves, drops The Texan Spender with KO in first round.
"Presidents and the Federal Debt"
Which Presidents are most to blame for the National Debt? Hint: together Reagan, Bush-1, and Bush-2 created more than half of the entire U.S. National Debt (-$8,853,015,348,090 as of June 12, 2007) all by themselves.
Our favorite pictures (in many sizes!) of Dubya's Mount Deficit are from LAFN.org: 
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