[Ken H]

From the looks of that chart it projected a deficit of (roughly) $415 billion for FY2005. From the article, it now looks like the annual deficit will be $350 billion. That's a $65 billion difference between reality and what that chart is showing.

Here are the debt figures from the Bureau of Public Debt:

08/01/2005 $7,869,521,621,947.05

Prior Months

07/29/2005 $7,887,617,581,195.58
06/30/2005 $7,836,495,788,085.86
05/31/2005 $7,777,880,152,594.89
04/29/2005 $7,764,537,337,364.14
03/31/2005 $7,776,939,047,670.14
02/28/2005 $7,713,137,673,664.71
01/31/2005 $7,627,742,597,775.41
12/31/2004 $7,596,165,867,424.14
11/30/2004 $7,525,209,508,979.45
10/29/2004 $7,429,677,448,545.04

Prior Fiscal Years

09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62

Looks like a debt increase of about $480 billion from 09/30/2004- 08/01/2005

[expat_panama]

Looks like a debt increase of about $480 billion from 09/30/2004- 08/01/2005 

Right, and at the same time Total Family Wealth increased by about $5 trillion. 

Now, I realize that there's lots of people who'd be willing to loose $10 just so they can have their debt reduced by $1, but that's dumb.