World's Most Compact Perpetual Calendar

3-yr-old To Obama: Give Me Back My Future

2004 version was this:

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Latest Data

National Center For Policy Analysis, 2009-06 (present value of infinite horizon)

• $17.5T - Social Security
• $36.7T - Medicare Part A
• $37.0T - Medicare Part B
  
• $15.6T - Medicare Part D (Bush's prescription drug benefit)

Concord Coaltion Facing Facts 2009-08 (present value of 75-year horizon)

• $7.7T - Social Security
• $13.8T - Medicare A (hospital stays)
• $24.4T - Medicare B+D (medical + drugs)

Public Pension Promises: How Big are They and What are They Worth?

• $3.2T - state and local pensions

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

• $1.4T - state and local debt in 2005
  

2008 Financial Report of the United States Government

• $5.3T -  federal civilian and military retiree benefits

Obligation of each of America's 307M people:

• $25,000 - Social Security
• $45,000 - Medicare A (hospital stays)
• $79,000 - Medicare B+D (medical + drugs)
• $10,00 - state and local pensions
• $4,000 - state and local debt
• $17,000 - federal retiree benefits
  
• $38,000 - Federal debt
• $218,000 - TOTAL