Total US Debt

Here is another attempt at estimating the total US debt. It certainly is flawed and should be used only as a starting point for your own research.

Category	2010	2009
Public Debt	9023	7552
Fed pensions	5720	5284
Other govt liab	1576	1257
OASDI	7947	7677
Med - A	2683	13770
Med - B	12901	17165
Med - D	7229	7172
Fannie Mae	3224	884
Freddie Mac	2262	842
Student Loans	744	636
Fed Reserve	1433	1324
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Total	54742	63563

Notes: The public debt line comes from the Treasury Dept. The next 6 lines come from the 2010 Financial Report of the US Government. The data for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come from their 10k's as of 12/31/10 and 12/31/09. I am including Federal Reserve data because it is all part of the same "system", and those number include total fed liabilities less assets invested in US Treasury securities to avoid double-counting. It is encouraging to see the total debt go down even if it is because of the Obamacare accounting trick.