NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits
NEW YORK - In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.
As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure — the "1" in $10 trillion. It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion.
The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.
The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_re_us/odd_national_...
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raves +1 posted Oct 11, 2008 07:33PM GMT
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Criminy cate will it just go on and on and on?????????????//// -
raves +1 posted Oct 10, 2008 08:17PM GMTAs I said on another post, its time to get your ducks in a row. If you don't have enough food and provisions to survive at least six months go get them now, don't wait any longer. Time like those digits is running out fast, don't be caught unprepared. The worst that can happen if nothing happens is you'll just have to eat your investment... so get it done now.
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raves +1 posted Oct 10, 2008 06:29PM GMTUmm, Duh, Uhh, Dose that means we reset R watches??
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raves +1 Oct 10, 2008 07:53PM GMTtime to wake up!
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raves +1 posted Oct 10, 2008 05:53PM GMTIts ugly, that is for sure. I saw a grown man cry yesterday because he lost over half of his retirement funds in one day!
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raves +2 Oct 10, 2008 05:56PM GMTomg... I know a friend of mine in texas who is on a VERY fixed income since her husband died 10 years ago lost 700.00 in the market recently... that was her 'padding' which aint sayin much. Thankgod her house is paid for,,, but if she cant figure out a way to make some money,, which she says there are no jobs where shes at (hawker heights texas which is real close to an army base ft hood) she doesnt know how shes going to pay her property tax's which have skyrocketed like everyonelses in the nation in the last few years.
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raves +2 Oct 10, 2008 06:07PM GMTIt makes me so sad to hear things like this... Let her know Ill think good thoughts for her...
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raves +2 Oct 10, 2008 06:13PM GMTwill do ,,, and your friend too..
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raves +2 posted Oct 10, 2008 05:03PM GMTguess they werent anticipating such big numbers.
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raves +2 posted Oct 10, 2008 04:27PM GMTIf the value of the dollar drops too much, you'll probably need more than a quadrillion.
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raves +2 posted Oct 10, 2008 04:22PM GMT
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raves +2 posted Oct 10, 2008 04:20PM GMTWhile I'm happy to rave you, Cat, I sure want to downrave the event. It's hard to imagine the clock could run out of digits. "What next, Cat, what next?" (Dr.Suess).
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raves +2 Oct 10, 2008 04:32PM GMTlol M&M... hard to guess
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raves +1 Oct 10, 2008 05:37PM GMTSame way we "addressed" it last time - massive government spending, revaluation and inflation.
