Publicly Held Debt Set to Skyrocket
Each American's Share of Publicly Held Debt Is Skyrocketing
The estimates from the White House for 2013 are available here. The year-by-year numbers are here.
Historical data on publicly held debt are available here.
I don't understand why a third of the graph is in the future. I think if you took any of the last five budgets and used those numbers to extrapolate, you'd get vastly different forecasts. Take the Clinton budgets, for example, and you'd see a very different view of the next thirty years. Actually, there were a few forecasts and NONE of them came to pass as the predictions described. Perhaps you like bad news when a Democrat is in The White House because I don't see a similar projection posted on your blog when Reagan or Bush were running deficits and piling on the the National Debt...
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