Question - US National Debt

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone know of literature where an attempt is made to express the
current magnitude of the US National Debt (and more specifically total
local/central government internal/external debt, and total private
internal/external debt) in comprehensible, meaningful comparisons ?

Doing a rough calculation, I imagine that the US national debt must
currently amount to something in the vicinity of $20,000 dollars for every
man, woman and child living in the USA.

An average wage in the USA would be about $30,000 so, then the average debt
burden per household, based on a standard nuclear family, would currently be
something in the order of two or three year's salary.

What I wanted to get to, was some sort of figure which showed, that in order
to pay off the national debt, every American worker would have to work about
3-5 years for nothing, or at any rate that American citizens were
effectively "borrowing" several years of their life from the rest of the
world.

Thanks,

J.