In that case, the article's hosed.
$448,000 for every man, woman and child works out to roughly $135 trillion.
The worst-case figure I've heard is $53 trillion if all the unfunded liabilities are accounted for.
The number in the article was $38,000. I never bothered to check how accurate it was. Since no one really knows what our actual national debt really is, I figured it was a waste of time. Besides, it wasn’t the point of the article. the point of the article was government spending is out of control and debt isn’t being paid down.