Have you ever wanted to see a graphical representation of how screwed we are as a nation? Well, I wrote an application that does just that. With a few mouse clicks, you can see for yourself how we ended up more than $10 trillion dollars in debt.
http://dev.softworksdevelopment.com/nationaldebt/
I downloaded the data from Treasury Direct, and wrote the application using Adobe Flex 2, MySQL and AMFPHP.
18. April 2009 at 4:09 pm
Hope you went to your Tea-Party!
Maybe we can get this beast under control if we work together with our neighbors.
Good work on your graph.
Can you do one for debt/GDP over time?
hgh.
20. April 2009 at 10:12 pm
Hey, thanks for the feedback.
I will definitely consider adding the debt/GDP when i have some free time.
I’m currently working on adding some more graphs, including unemployment over time, so keep checking back.
20. June 2009 at 10:04 am
Debt is the biggest issue facing us all.
I found this video on YouTube which really opened my eyes to the importance of getting out of debt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50bWUrKAbwU
I am sure you will be as amazed as I was.