Here is a series of short videos that help place the U.S. national debt and that country’s fiscal challenges into perspective.
1) How do the current “Obama deficits” in the U.S. compare with its past presidents? And how did the U.S. national debt get so big anyway. The National Debt Road Trip is a video that answers those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yxFtTwDcc&feature=channel
2) Obama Budget Cuts Visualization is a video that explores just how much the $100 million dollars in budget cuts being heralded by President Obama is compared to the federal budget as a whole. This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE&feature=channel
3) So, try to visualize One Trillion Dollars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3MNu8BRwQ
4) Here’s another look at the national debt. Dave Walker answers, “How much is a billion dollars?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um0guhNGPPM&feature=related
