Posted on 09/08/2011 12:30:50 PM PDT by CodeToad
People often ask if there is a chart that shows the national debt for each year and one that shows which political party was President and held the Senate and House for each year. The following chart shows that information. I gathered the data and tried to arrange and format it so as to show without bias the debt spending throughout the life of our country since 1791. I have not added any commentary as to what the data shows, leaving that for you to decide.
I created the data in Microsoft Excel 2010 and then exported the data into images for web page display and individual file formats for downloading of the actual data. The images are hosted on ImageShack.com and the files on Google Docs. So, if the images are not good enough feel free to download the actual Excel spreadsheet or one of the other file formats, such as PDF, from the links below.
I hope this answers the question of who spends the most.
National Debt 1791-2011:
National Debt 1791-2011 by Party:
This chart shows the spending by who controls the President, Senate, and House. This is the primary chart people ask for.
National Debt 1791-2011 by President, Senate, House:
The following documents are hosted on Google Docs. Clicking a link will take you to Google Docs where you may view the file or select to download it. These files were created by me, codetoad, and are provided for public use without copyright restrictions of any kind. Feel free to copy, modify, and even republish them freely.
National Debt Chart in Microsoft Excel 2010 format (also compatible with Excel 2007) : National Debt – Excel 2010 (NationalDebt.xlsx)
National Debt Chart in Microsoft Excel 2003 or prior format: National Debt – Excel 2003(NationalDebt.xls)
National Debt Chart as a PDF: National Debt – PDF(NationalDebt.pdf)
National Debt Chart as a web page that you can view or save as a file: National Debt – Web Page (NationalDebt.mht)
Feel free to copy my data, images, etc. It took some time to get all that together as it isn’t in once single place to be found. Some of my links are the raw Excel data so that should help.
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