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[edit] US Public Debt vs US Private Debt
Something's missing here. If there's a page dedicated to "United States Public Debt", why isn't there one so titled for "United States Private debt"? If understanding the "debt ceiling" invokes this page on "United States Public Debt", why not one similarly titled and detailed called "United States PRIVATE debt"?
Understanding the economic buzz surrounding the term "debt ceiling" might be easier to grasp if there was a similarly titled page called "United States PRIVATE Debt". I know I'd like to compare and contrast the two concepts. I'd write it myself, but I don't know what I'm doing, and the person who wrote and formatted the former should also format and write the latter to better contrast the two concepts (besides, quite frankly I don't even know what balancing a checkbook means (bozo_de_niro@37.com).
[edit] When was the original debt ceiling legislation passed?
When was the original debt ceiling legislation passed? Of secondary importance, but not irrelevant, when where amendments passed? Did they all raise the ceiling—were there other amendments? JDAWiseman (talk) 08:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Graphs should be a log scale.
The exponential nature of the graph makes it difficult to read much information out of the left side of any of the graphs because the graph is dominated by the more recent data. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.194.218.50 (talk) 03:19, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Moved text
This article was quite long, so I've moved some text from here to History of the United States public debt, Political debates about the United States federal budget, and Deficit reduction in the United States. AnomieBOT should be along to fix the broken refs, but I'll check up tomorrow to make sure that they get fixed. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 01:50, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Add public debt as a percent of GDP (2011) world map, for USA comparison.
Add from Government debt ...
Public debt as a percent of GDP (2011)
99.19.45.64 (talk) 02:46, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
The term "public debt" in the U.S. is not accurately portrayed in the graph. Public debt in the U.S. relative to GDP is around 66%, around $10 trillion of our $15 trillion debt. Total debt is about 100%, which includes the Social Security surplus amounts and other amounts owed to citizens for specific purposes.19:57, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Chart showing where debt comes from
I.E., what percent and/or numbers have been created for current wars and past wars, cabinet spending, stimulus and bailout programs, interest as part of current debt, social security/medicare/other trustfunds, etc. The only thing close to that on Wikipedia now is this chart from 2001-2009 that has been questioned. The best one I've found - Pub. Domain by government, but even searching non-gov. sites - is at “A Citizen's Guide to the 2008 Financial Report of the U.S. Government”, so maybe I should just put it up on commons and then on some of these related articles. Maybe replace one of the plethora of charts on who it is owed to. Would like to see one that breaks down military/defense/homeland security vs. civilian spending. CarolMooreDC 17:59, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
