Harvard: US debt bill is $123,000 per worker

The U.S. debt, which has jumped 55 percent under President Obama, is now so high that if working Americans had to pay their full share, the bill would be over $123,000, according to a new Harvard University Institute of Politics study of the nation’s empty bank accounts.

The school’s fiscal 2012 Annual Report of the USA, which examines the federal budget, put the total debt at $16.7 trillion. But that’s such a big number that the student authors tried to put it in perspective.