[Enlightened1]

Strange... I was able to pull up 18 Trillion. See the following links.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

and

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

and

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/01/u-s-national-debt-soars-to-18-trillion-under-obama/

and

http://zfacts.com/p/461.html

[Straight Vermonter]

It's not that much of a difference. My point was about the EU's debt. It is quite a bit LOWER than ours, about half of what you initially posted.