US Debt

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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 www.politicalmathblog.com or follow me on Twitter: twitter.com

On Friday, the US Labor Department released the jobs report numbers for the month of February. According to the report, 227000 jobs were created but the unemployment rate remains at 8.3 percent. Many call these tough economic times a time of recovery, but how long will the US take to climb out of its terrible deficit? Michael Hudson, economics professor for the University of Missouri, breaks down the numbers for us. Like us and/or follow us: twitter.com www.facebook.com