United States Debt Held by the Public was $12,619,319,113,193.99 on March 31st, 2014. This means the debt has more than doubled from Obama’s inauguration day on January 20, 2009. This happened in just 1,896 days.
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Despite the massive increase in the federal government’s marketable debt during George Bush’s eight years, Obama has now managed to accumulate more additional marketable debt in his first five+ years in office than all the presidents who preceded combined. The debt held by the public has officially doubled under Obama.
According to TreasuryDirect, which is run by the Feds, US Government debt outstanding is lower in August 2013 as compared to March 2013 even while continuing to borrow heavily to finance massive deficits. It is uncertain how long they can continue this creative accounting method.
Total US student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt and now exceeds 1 trillion dollars. Also, approximately 45% of those who have already graduated college are not making payments either due to default, deferment, some other form of forbearance or they are still in their grace period.
In 1819, the USA purchased Florida from Spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt.