http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/national.debt.clock.ap/index.html
NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

U.S. national debt clock in Times Square, New York.
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.
Re: We should be so proud....
At least we're reminding the Chinese tourists to NYC how much we owe them. You know, as a public service to our int'l trading partner.
This saddens me.
FI was really upset about this.
We both remember when they had to shut if OFF during the last months of the Clinton presidency....when the debt was shrinking by $30 every second.
I know this is supposedly indifferent but to me it looks like "shocked mute"
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