The 2012 National Debt Road Trip

How do the Obama deficits compare with past presidents? And what is his plan moving forward? This video depicts the National Debt as a road trip and visualizes how fast the most recent US Presidents have increased the debt.

This is an update for the National Debt Road Trip video I made in 2009.

For more details on how I got this data and answers to commonly asked questions, see my blog post on this at

http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1724

or follow me on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/politicalmath

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[Dilweed Kendoll]

Your videos are very creative and put a good perspective on the government's spending. I've been pondering ways to be able to get this message across to people in my age group. I'm 14 and I'm afraid of my own future because my generation, even though it is FULL of people who want to help other people out, they really don't do so because they do not know what they are voting for. They will vote liberal because: 1. their parents are 2. they think the conservatives hate the poor and 3:PROPAGANDA

[Ali Adeeb]

This is a nice video but you are wrong about one little detail. The bush tax cuts increased revenue.

[dase4321]

Glad to see one 14 year old with his head out of his ass.

[dase4321]

Lol, your funny.

[IkerThunder]

You know.... People always bash Republicans for being brainwashed by the 'evil Christians (Of which I apparently am) etc etc' and they want to screw over anybody and everybody. That's kinda funny, as that's exactly what the media says.

*cough*

*cough-cough*

I think that's why so many people are voting for leadership such as Obama. The media is controlled by whoever has the most money. We know that much.

*mysteriously disappears off the face of the earth*

Yay for conspiracy theories!

[LockNLoadTV]

You should make another one of these in 2016.

[lmullen56]

WRONG! The president signs into law the congressional budget. Presidents have final say on the budgets!

[glen h]

$3,000,000 every 10 (+/-) minutes

$16,815,538,000,000 on 5/13/13 at 8:46 am according to usdebtclock org

we should hit $17,000,000,000,000 around july 4th 2014

with the qe3 costing us $80,000,000,000 month, who knows what else could accelerate this

maybe a single coin? abomacare? another war?

[David Cordero-Torres]

yea people need to realize that half the Presidents first term Democrats had full control of congress.