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Yep, We're Screwed: National Debt Clock Runs Out of Numbers
gizmodo.com — It's official. We're hosed. The National Debt Clock near Times Square has just run out of spaces to add more zeroes to its running count of our national debt, thanks to the one-two punch of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and the $100 billion used to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before that.
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- tketch, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3I guess we will just keep spending until it's so large, we can just declare bankruptcy and then not have to pay anybody back.
Jesus *****.- badwithcomputer, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2tell me more about these "jesus *****"
- tketch, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1It is a fun term to use when everything has gone to hell :)
- StevenBullen, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3Source: http://www.wkyc.com/news/world/news_article.aspx?s ...
I am starting to hate gizmodo! - clorby, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Erected in 1989, the original amount of debt was 2.7 trillion dollars. Since then we've spent $8 trillion more (that we don't actually have). As a percentage of our GDP, our debt hasn't been this high since World War II. At what point do we begin to take this seriously?
- bananasluggy, on 10/08/2008, -0/+7A friend calls it the "fuzzy zeroes" phenomena... after a certain number of zeroes, it's difficult to accept what they represent. The number is just too big...
Instead of saying a "trillion" try saying "a million million."
Sounds a lot worse. :(
...then again it's my generation that gets to pay most of that back... - gobbstopp, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2where did i just hear that our debt exceeds the amount of actual gold on the whole earth 10 times over?
- reyalp, on 10/08/2008, -3/+4Obama's going to change all of this with his super unicorn change powers of change while he's changing the change.
- tykwondingo, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3while riding a unicorn through a rainbow.
- sockpuppets, on 10/08/2008, -2/+3He couldn't ***** it up any more than the republicans have.
- BaseballGuyCAA, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Be careful what you wish for...
- uppitydiggers, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1I've never understood why we even have something tracking this anymore. It hasn't declined since 1969, and at this point it's probably never going to go back down. The government just can't spend money fast enough. When it's money we don't have, they spend it even faster.
- bleh19799791, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Obviously the solution is to built a bigger clock.
- BaseballGuyCAA, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Subsidized by the government.
- djAnakin, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Not really. The bailout is a loan.. not a gift. Not that I think they'll pay any of it back though. Or that we should be bailing anyone out. Let it work itself out naturally. If it takes some of the big guys along, ***** em!
- Shaggy3, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1How much did that clock cost.
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