Infographic - US National Debt

Re:Infographic - US National Debt by peteforde on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:20AM (#2811294)

As a Canadian with a reasonable working knowledge of international news and economics who happens to be geeky about data visualization... this is a confusing jumble.

I'm not sure the average joe would put time into figuring out what this is supposed to be telling them.

Americans, do you think this is good and I'm just out to lunch? I'm happy to be wrong on this, I'm just looking for input.

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Re:Infographic - US National Debt by knowtheory on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:51AM (#2811360)

Hey pete,

I will admit, even as someone who supports Obama, and finds the GOP misrepresentation of the debt ceiling debate (and history in general) completely unconscionable, the primary purpose for this graphic is a political one.

How can you tell? The primary foci are the red and blue blocks. I.E. who's responsible for what portion of the debt.

The rest of the graphic is extraneous detail.

There are a pile of more interesting graphics, some of which you can find here: http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-budget-hypocrisy-2... and http://flowingdata.com/2011/07/26/how-the-deficit-got-so-big...

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