Here are the actual figures, as regarding our national debt on January 20, 2009 (When Barack Obama originally assumed the presidency)
vis-a-vis what that debt is today:
Date---------------------------------------Total Public Debt Outstanding
01/20/2009------------------------------10,626,877,048,913.08
02/28/2013------------------------------16,687,289,180,215.37
Here is the link:
Government - Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)Basically, what this means is that, in just over four years, President Obama has added more that 6.06
trillion dollars to our national debt.
(This is the cue for dyed-in-the-wool Keynesians to come out, and cry that he simply had no choice but to try to "stimulate" the economy; and that he probably should have spent even
more...)