The USA's National Debt Clock can't keep up with Bush's spending

[TomInTib]

The USA’s national debt is increasing by $2.43 billion everyday. People expect the state debt to top the ten trillion dollar mark in the next few years.

A special huge electronic display in New York which shows in real time the size of state debt will not be able to cope with such a high figure. In 1989 the national debt clock was placed in Times Square so that Americans could see how effectively their government was working. At the time the national debt stood at 2.7 trillion dollars.

Yesterday at midday Moscow time the debt stood at $8 369 526 197 055.36. It even rose yesterday by $604 million. If the figures are to be believed, yesterday every American family bore a debt of almost $90 000.

Developer Douglas Durst owns the clock and his father erected it. He hoped to make Americans understand the economy better. The clock worked fine for ten years but in the run up to the new millennium it crashed. In its final moments the clock read that the national debt was $5.7 trillion and that the family share of the debt was $74 000. Durst believed that such a level of debt would not last long and he was right. Within two years the debt had started to grow at an unprecedented rate.

more:

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/30-03-2006/78085-nationaldebt-0

[BlueEyedSon]

1. They will have to add another digit because of Bush

[TomInTib]

3. Same as the gas pumps.

"But no one could have anticipated..."

[liberal N proud]

2. Notice where the story comes from. Pravda

You get more accurate news about the US from Pravda than you do the propaganda machines in this country.
:wtf: