The National Debt Never Sleeps—and Neither Should You
By Daniel at 11 August, 2009, 9:25 am
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By: Cindy Perman
If you’re sleeping too soundly at night, have I got the remedy for you!
The running tally of the national debt is now online at USDebtClock.org, a site that is sure to fry your brain with — not just the sheer size of the debt, but — 38 other moving numbers, including debt per citizen and total spent on the bailout.
At last check, the debt was at more than $11.6 trillion, the debt per citizen was around $38,000 and the total spent on the bailout was more than $11.8 trillion.
With spending like that, you’d think we were a bunch of Goldman Sachs wives!
“At the rate those numbers are moving, I think we need a new energy bill that funds research into a source of renewable energy for the Federal Reserve’s printing press,” quipped Alyx Kaczuwka, author of the blog LOLFed.com.
It comes just in the nick of time, too: Remember that the famous debt clock in Times Square, created by the Durst Organization, was briefly taken down this past fall because it ran out of room when the debt hit $10 trillion. It was one digit short. Durst came up with a quick fix: Turn the digital dollar sign into an extra digit and slap on a dollar-sign sticker.
Of course, that’s not going to help us when the debt reaches $99.99 trillion. At this rate, there’s only one place big enough for the national debt: The Internet.
On the Internet, you can have the national debt at your disposal, any time of the day or night — not just when you go to see a “show” in Times Square.
You can wake up and say, “Good morning, $11 trillion national debt!”
You can sneak a peek at work.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/32317603
Source: usdebtclock.org
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