According to the US National Debt Clock, the outstanding public debt as of May 10,06 is $8,362,766,017,654.34?
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we need to limit spending to bare minimums askall federal employees in these tough times totake a temporary pay cut till we balance the budget and get things under control .--like they do with airlines and auto manufactureres union members take pay cut in order that the company can make it thru hard times all federal and state employees should have to give back a little in tuff times .after all its the working man who pays the taxes and dont give me that crap about big co.paying taxes they just collect it from working people in inflated prises. its time 1/3 of this country ease up a bit on what there getting i doubt many government workers are without health care our retirement 20 yrs and 80% retirement then go work for a government contractor. still on the government payroll and good pay and more retirement.the backs of the workers in america cant afford this much longer.--so i suggest some pay cuts and reduced benifits the government is not the place to work and get rich its a place to serve.its a start local taxes pay for all services localy. no federal matching funds or grants to cover bad government by local communittys federal highways only and military  all other programs paid with income tax ended make it optional to pay additional taxes for nasa or cancer research all the places tax dollars go  we need to cut government to the bone.most congressmen are rich no salaries for life or benifits   in and out with a check like  a painter or carpenter would do   --when the job is over so is the money find more work .as some one who works for a living i am ticked off at the benifits we have to pay to people in pulic service lets put service back in it and take the self service out of it .
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It's always increasing...but here's a link:\nhttp://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/\n\nAnd this website is a good source for finding out WHY it's like that:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/5577/philo/fedbgt.htm
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As of right now, it's about $72.15.  That's for June 06 delivery futures contract.
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About 1 Trillion. See source link for more.
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the bill is 1993643976087569876345865321965498213593465965349843939768463986598243698763498 dollars
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Government debt\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n(Redirected from National debt)\nJump to: navigation, search\n\nGovernment debt (also known as public debt or national debt) is money owed by any level of government; either central government, federal government, municipal government or local government.\n\nAs the government represents the people, government debt can be seen as an indirect debt of the tax payers.\n\nGovernment debt can be categorized as internal debt, owed to lenders within the country, and external debt, owed to foreign lenders. Governments usually borrow by issuing securities such as government bonds and bills. Less credit worthy countries sometimes borrow directly from commercial banks or supranational institutions. Some people consider all government liabilities, including future pension payments and payments for goods and services the government has contracted for but not yet paid, as government debt.\n\nAnother common division of government debt is by duration. Short term debt is generally considered to be one year or less, long term is more than ten years. Medium term debt falls in the middle.\nContents\n[hide]\n\n    * 1 Government and sovereign bonds\n    * 2 Municipal, provincial or state bonds\n    * 3 Denominated in reserve currencies\n    * 4 Risk\n    * 5 Clearing and defaults\n    * 6 Structure\n    * 7 Scale\n    * 8 Problems\n    * 9 Implicit debt\n    * 10 See also\n    * 11 References\n    * 12 External links\n          o 12.1 United States\n          o 12.2 Global\n\n[edit]\n\nGovernment and sovereign bonds\n\nMain articles: government bond and sovereign bond\n\nA government bond is a bond issued by a national government denominated in the country's domestic currency. Bonds issued by national governments in foreign currencies are normally referred to as sovereign bonds. Government bonds are usually considered risk-free bonds, because the government can raise taxes, reduce spending, or simply print more money to redeem the bond at maturity. Investors in sovereign bonds have the additional risk that the issuer is unable to obtain foreign currency to redeem the bonds.\n[edit]\n\nMunicipal, provincial or state bonds\n\n    Further information: Municipal bond\n\nMunicipal bonds or "munis" in the United States are debt securities issued by local governments (municipalities).\n[edit]\n\nDenominated in reserve currencies\n\nGovernments borrow money in a currency for which the demand is strongest. The advantage of issuing bonds in a currency such as the euro or the US dollar, is that the universe of investors for the bonds is very large. Countries such as the United States, France and Germany have only issued in their domestic currency. Relatively few investors are willing to invest in currencies that do not have a long track-record of stability. The disadvantage for a government issuing bonds in a foreign currency, is that there is a risk that they will not be able to obtain the foreign currency to pay the interest or redeem the bonds. In 1997/1998, during the Asian financial crisis this became a serious problem when many countries were unable to keep their exchange rate fixed due to speculative attacks.\n[edit]\n\nRisk\n\n    Main article: Credit risk\n\nLendings to a national government in the country's own sovereign currency are often considered "risk free" and are made at a so-called "risk-free interest rate". This is because the debt and interest can be repaid by raising taxes, a reduction in spending, or failing that by simply printing more money. Naturally, this would increase inflation and reduce the value of the invested capital. An extreme example of this is provided by Weimar Germany of 1920s which suffered from hyperinflation due to its government's inability to pay the national debt.\n\nA politically unstable state is anything but risk-free as it may, being sovereign, cease its payments with impunity. Famous examples of this phenomenon ar
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When  you include everything, all our debt, the number is over 50 trillion.  " A billion here and a billion there, soon you are talking about real money."  It is all a colossal shell game perpetrated on the public.  Social Security was supposed to be a fund that contributions went in to, and benefits were to be taken from the interest.  If left alone, there would be more than enough money now to draw from.  Instead, Congress adopted another criminal  practice and started, in the sixties, dumping that money in the general fund to be spent every year on their pet projects, like Vietnam.  Today is  the same with Iraq.  I imagine they call it creative bookkeeping 101.
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I believe whoever told you that is confusing Japan and China. The total US debt held by foreign countries is $1.886 trillion, of which Japan held $1.2 trillion as of March 2005 and China a mere $223.5 billion at the same time.
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As of March 31st, $526,501 million in bonds were outstanding and held by the public. How much of that is held by foreign people is unknown.
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The Government keeps records of ownership of all Government securities.  Here is a link to the Bureau of Public Debt contact page.  You can email, snail mail or call them.\n\nGood luck!\n\nhttp://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/bpd/bpdemail.htm
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This might be of value\nhttp://www.yourdictionary.com/business_profile/debt/business/finance-job.html\n\nfollowing might have some interesting data.\nhttp://www.mises.org/humanaction/pdf/ha_31.pdf
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Here's a website address that should give you the info you're looking for:\nhttp://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm
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$54,227\n\nBased on the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. They have a really neat calculator that figures the value of things from any year to any year.
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There is the debt the national government owes. Then there is the debt the population and corporations owe. Then there is the debt that states and localities owe. Which did you mean, or did you mean all?\n\nU S government $8+ trillion.  Does not include unfunded obligations such as social security and medicare. \n\nConsumer debt is over $10 trillion.\n\nCorporate debt is probably around another $10 trillion. GM alone owes 285 billion and that does not include unfunded pension and health care liabilities.\n\nStates and local governments probably $30 billion. Every town, school district, airport, library, college owes millions. \n\nHope I didn't ruin your week.
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If the deficit was $319 billion, then our national debt increased by $319 billion.\n\nA deficit is our debt for that particular year. The deficit is then added to the total debt.
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Take a look at the graph. The national debt after WW2 was huge and they needed a way to pay it down. It worked for a while as the US became more productive the debt to GDP ratio steadily declined until 1980. Its been increasing since then except for a short period during the Dot.com boom.\n\nhttp://zfacts.com/p/318.html
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$16.5 billion \n\nSee http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/nasa.html