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Meet the Press Fail: Shows Debt Clock $3 Trillion Less Actual $16.4 Trillion
Sunday, January 6, 2013 | Kristinn

Posted on 01/06/2013 10:27:47 AM PST by kristinn

It has gone unremarked upon by their peers in the media, but a few people noted it on Twitter. This morning NBC's Meet the Press featuring gun criminal David Gregory ran a graphic of the U.S. national debt clock that showed the debt at $13 trillion, a mere $3 trillion short of where it actually stands.

Most notably, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker tweeted about it.

A photo of the Meet the Press debt clock fail was posted to Twitter by Rick VanMeter:

As of today, the national debt is over $16,400,000,000,000.


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KEYWORDS: debtclock; meetthepress; vanity
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1 posted on 01/06/2013 10:27:54 AM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

$13 trillion versus $16 trillion? Does it even matter anymore?


2 posted on 01/06/2013 10:32:40 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: kristinn

Not a mistake. Deliberate lying.


3 posted on 01/06/2013 10:32:57 AM PST by DManA
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To: kristinn

This is an outrage but NBC is a tentacle of the Obama regime. They gotta do what they gotta do for “the Won”.


4 posted on 01/06/2013 10:33:41 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
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To: kristinn
The official photo of the new Democrats in Congress contained Photoshopped people who were not there.
Sandy Hook -- did he use pistols? Or a rifle? [shrug] Depends on the news story.
Sandy Hook -- Weirdness with the Parker Family. I don't even know in their daughter is alive or dead.
Debt clock -- what's $3T? It's like a rounding error, right?
Hillary Clinton -- Stroke? Fall? Concussion? Blood clot? Alcohol? Who knows.
The election -- many districts with 100% of votes going to Obama. That's weird.

We've entered the Twilight Zone. I believe NOTHING.

5 posted on 01/06/2013 10:33:53 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: kristinn

Oh I’m sure it was just a mistake by the NBC NEWS staff, said NO ONE EVER!


6 posted on 01/06/2013 10:35:21 AM PST by The Chief
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To: kristinn

Must've cashed in a couple $Toony's....

7 posted on 01/06/2013 10:38:58 AM PST by mikrofon (Obama's America: Closed for Business)
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To: The Chief

Needs to be huge news.

Seriously. This is a network lying. Bald-faced lying.


8 posted on 01/06/2013 10:39:15 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: kristinn

Without checking, I think the $13 trillion excludes Treasuries held by the U.S. Government in the “Social Security trust fund”. If they look at it that way, then the U.S. government’s Social Security obligations are 100% unfunded. They can’t have it both ways.


9 posted on 01/06/2013 10:41:24 AM PST by Praxeologue
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I suspect this is about all we can expect from the Lamestream Media from now on; especially in the economic news. It’ll HAVE to be exaggerated and TWEAKED a bit to make THE FIRST MULATTO PRESIDENT look good. (I’m still waiting for the FIRST TRULY BLACK PRESIDENT.)


10 posted on 01/06/2013 10:42:10 AM PST by Twinkie (The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. Ps. 24:1)
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To: kristinn
gun criminal David Gregory

LOL

11 posted on 01/06/2013 10:43:21 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: CitizenUSA

$13 trillion versus $16 trillion? Does it even matter anymore?


No..it doesn’t.

I’ve read that unfunded liabilities, Medicare, SS etc. brings the total north of $60 Trillion..


12 posted on 01/06/2013 10:44:49 AM PST by AFret. ("Charlie don't surf ! ")
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To: mikrofon
Must've cashed in a couple $Toony's....

Yep, three of them. And, I suppose the striking of the coinage will look just like the one you depict...

Trillion Dollar Coins: The Ultimate Debt Ceiling End-Around?

13 posted on 01/06/2013 10:48:10 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: DManA

Absolutely, deliberately lying.


14 posted on 01/06/2013 10:50:28 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: kristinn
http://usadebtclock.com/

National Debt per person - $52,142
Total US Unfunded Liabilities Per Person - $390,592

Medicare Unfunded Liability - $79,030,435,000
Total US Unfunded Liabilities - $123,298,143,000

Oh Yes
GDP - $15,811,000,000
Real Disposable Personal Income - $10,359,000,000
Unfunded Liabilities / GDP = 7.8
Unfunded Liabilities / DPI = 11.9

The Liabilities are ~8x GDP
The Liabilities are ~12x DPI

A Completely Unsupportable Burden

15 posted on 01/06/2013 10:51:38 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: C210N

“..I suppose the striking of the coinage will look just like the one you depict...”

I expect it to have Obama giving the middle finger on the heads and his rear mooning us on tails.


16 posted on 01/06/2013 10:52:00 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: AFret.

see #15


17 posted on 01/06/2013 10:53:32 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: kristinn
NBC's Meet the Press featuring gun criminal David Gregory

I'm still looking for updates on how the investigation is going.

18 posted on 01/06/2013 10:54:23 AM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: vbmoneyspender
Gunslinger Man


19 posted on 01/06/2013 11:01:54 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: CitizenUSA

What scares the hell out of me is what the debt will be if interest rates go to 4%.
They can’t stay at 0 forever.


20 posted on 01/06/2013 11:05:44 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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