The National Debt Road Trip

How do the Obama deficits compare with past presidents? And how did the national debt get so big anyway. This video tries to answer those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip and seeing how fast different administrations have been traveling.

Historical debt data: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/re...

Inflation data: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

Future debt data (2010 - 2016): http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/...

For more, follow my Twitter account at PoliticalMath or visit my blog at politicalmath.wordpress.com

• Category

  News & Politics

[guysdolls1001]

What Reagan and the Bushes did in terms of increased spending was unconscionable! What Obama has done is even worse.

[usagill]

I liked that.

[Lucy Kain]

This is un necessarily harsh on Obama. The whole thing does kind of shock me and I'm not arguing..it's just a little harsh

[Brian Evans]

spell policies right then we will discuss further

[KnowledgeJet]

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

oh wait... nvm....

[nacoran]

It depends what you are spending on. If you drop a bomb on a building in another country, they are down one building and you are down one bomb. If you build a bridge in your own country, you are up one bridge. Dropping bombs doesn't create future growth (it does create some short term jobs). Keynesian economics depends on those improvements paying off. Every business spends money to make money. They don't get good returns on their investment when they bomb their neighbors.

[MrJarth]

nope it won't be socialism it will be anarchy.

Maybe socialist after anarchy if you are really unlucky.

[52298Beebop2]

Obama has spent less than Bush! Obama hasn't even served his second term yet, so how will you know! Truth is, Obama is BLAMING his predecessors for HIS FAILED POLICYS!

[Calvin Anderson]

The last 20 presidents were left with over a 1 trillion deficit.

[davidn11]

whoever re-elected for obama is a ignorant fool