Debt Clock Adjusted
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If you havent heard of the "National Debt Clock", it's a digital display in New York City on West 44th Street near Sixth Avenue. It displays a running total of the US National Debt. It was put in place by the late real estate mogul Seymour Durst in 1989. At that time the national debt ammounted to a mere 2.7 trillion dollars.
However, even if you know about it, you probably were not aware of the fact that the number has now gotten so large that the display no longer had enough digits to display it (This froma government that want's everybody to pay their bills... somebody, a whole buncha somebodys in fact, need to put on their MBT shoes and hit the bricks looking for jobs since they obviously can't do the one about solving the debt).
Anyways ... The digit that has normally been used to display a dollar sign has been pressed into use for displaying the '1' in $10,150,603,734,720 (that's the figure as of Saturday afternoon, 10/11/08). The dollar sign was replaced with a improvised symbol pasted next to the spot it used to hold.
Perhaps a copy of this display should hang in every legislative house in the nation with a reminder given to everybody in charge of solving the debt problem that if it hits $11 Trillion we're going to send zxckdls to "educate" them on the error of their ways.
Trust me, they don't want to meet zxckdls. Anything with a name *that* unpronounceable has gotta be dangerous.
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