I actually think this is an incorrectly attributed number. If you multiply $43,100 * 300 Million people (remember the population number is 2008) you get around

I actually think this is an incorrectly attributed number. If you multiply $43,100 * 300 Million people (remember the population number is 2008) you get around $12.9 Trillion dollars. That's around where the National Debt Clock would have been in Q3 2010 (http://www.usdebtclock.org/ http://www.usdebtclock.org/) So this is each U.S. citizen's share of the U.S. National debt not Consumer Debt