Monday, October 6, 2008


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I'm not really sure what to say about the article below. The fact that anyone believes we could possibly ever hit the $100 trillion mark or higherworries me. I don't even remember what comes after a trillion! At now over $80,000 per family, how long could it take to ever pay this much off with interest? Could it become the problem of  our great, great, great, great, great, great, ...
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'1' BIG TICK IS DUE FOR DEBT CLOCK
By KATHIANNE BONIELLO

October 5, 2008 --

If you think the national debt is bad, the people who own the National Debt Clock are even more pessimistic: They're planning on reformatting their Times Square-area ticker so it can keep track of a debt 100 times bigger than the current $10 trillion.

With the national debt now at $10.1 trillion, the late Seymour Durst's legendary National Debt Clock has run out of space. To fix it, the Durst Organization plans to add places for two extra digits next year, a spokesman said.

By tomorrow, the digital dollar sign now on the clock will be switched to a number one - the "1" in $10 trillion - until the sign can be redone.

Durst, who died in 1995, put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to the burgeoning national debt. But less than a decade ago, the clock itself was turned off when the national debt decreased.

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El Yunque National Rain Forest, PR

El Yunque National Rain Forest, PR
My first experience treking up the steep mountain of a rainforest.