US debt clock running out of time, space

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/March/theworld_March841.xml§ion=theworld&col=

NEW YORK - Tick, 20,000 dollars, tock, another 20,000 dollars. So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York’s Times Square move in seemingly random increments as they struggle to keep pace.

The national debt clock, as it is known, is a big clock. A spot-check last week showed a readout of 8.3 trillion -- or more precisely 8,310,200,545,702 -- dollars ... and counting.

But it’s not big enough.

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.

[BlueManDude]

1. I remember they shut it down during the Clinton Administration

for the life of me I can't figure out why Dems didn't make a campaign ad out of this. i guess they know better than i do.

[xxqqqzme]

2. they should be using it now

2 counter raisin brain's campaign clap-trap about democrat(sic)spending & democrat debt. Tell ne all about it privilege boy.

[BlueManDude]

4. how about in 2000 and 2004?

maybe they'll figure it out this time 'round.

[EVDebs]

3. Exponential notation, anyone ? LOL n/t