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U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
- timdoug 17y ago$ wget -q -O - http://www.usdebtclock.org | grep "\<embed\>" | wc -l 92 Goodness. edit: Check out their about page, too: http://www.usdebtclock.org/about.html http://www.usdebtclock.org/about.html
- ericd 17y agoHaha that's one way to deal with browser differences...
- sp332 17y agoIs it OK for them to be using the Great Seal as a logo?
- jrockway 17y agoApparently.
- detcader 17y agohttp://incredimazing.com/static/media/2008/03/27/c4ac3ef1404bc65/debt.jpg http://incredimazing.com/static/media/2008/03/27/c4ac3ef1404...
- dustingetz 17y agowhat an intentionally misleading graphic.
- pavs 17y agoCan you point to the misleading part? I couldn't find it. Are you referring to policies that was taken during one administration that might have lead to deficit or surplus in the next administration?
- dustingetz 17y agoits a derivative being presented as its absolute function
- ajross 17y agoNot sure how that's misleading actually. The derivative in this case is "spending - revenue", which is the thing that governments can actually control. A zero-borrowing budget (which would be a huge improvement at least according to the "spending is bad" metric that seems to be en vogue) would show a debt graph that looks almost exactly like your mortgage -- flat and uninformative. Plotting the deficit shows which policies are likely to lead to sustainable government spending and which ones don't.
- jrockway 17y agoIt's misleading because you have to take the integral to get the actual debt, right? (Which is always increasing, just apparently less quickly with democratic presidents. OTOH, a democratic president and a republican Congress is a great way to get nothing passed, which is free... and the image doesn't show anything about that.)
- jrp 17y agoDebt per citizen : 41392. Debt per taxpayer: 116490. 41392 / 116490 = 35.5%; can it really be that so few are taxpayers?
- jrockway 17y agoSo, now tell me what debt is.