US Debt Clock Running Out of Time, Space

Here's a piece I found a Yahoo about how the US debt clock is running out of time and space. The reason: the debt is getting so big that there aren't enough digit spaces to list it. The details:

Sometime in the next two years, the total amount of US government borrowing is going to break through the 10-trillion-dollar mark and, lacking space for the extra digit such a figure would require, the clock is in danger of running itself into obsolescence.

While this is news in itself, what I found more interesting in this piece were the bits of data about the US debt. A couple key facts:

• Tick, 20,000 dollars, tock, another 20,000 dollars.
• Last week, the "family share" readout on the clock stood some loose change short of 90,000 dollars.

I'm resisting the urge to rant about out-of-control government spending, but just barely. Is it any wonder that 1) average Americans spend like drunken sailors when our government does and 2) people resent paying their taxes when they think of all the waste that goes into piling up this debt?

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[MoneyBoy]

The government is out of control. Lower taxes and higher spending. Dems and Republicans both get what they want and the people lose