U.S. debt grows too big for National Debt Clock.

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The National Debt Clock in New York’s Times Square — first erected in 1989 when the debt was less than $3 trillion — cannot keep pace with the growing national debt, now at more than $10 trillion. NBC’s Brian Williams reported last night that “the debt has been piling up so fast lately they had to drop the dollar sign to make room for an extra digit.” A new clock with two extra digits will go up next year. Watch it:


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/07/debt-clock/

Recall in September 2000, during President Clinton’s last year in office, the National Debt Clock had the opposite problem. It was shut down because “it started ticking in the opposite direction, shaving off roughly $30 a second.”

[katty]

1. and clock explodes

[RoccoR5955]

2. As King George might say, "Mission Accomplished!" n/t

[Brotherjohn]

3. This is a great talking point for Obama to use tonight. Both the fact that it's gotten too big...

...for the clock, and the fact that it was DECREASING at the end of Clinton's term.

And Dems have only held Congress for less than 2 years, without a veto-proof majority; and Republicans have resisted their plans and pushed the Bush budgets through time and time again.

Kinda blows the whole "big government, big spending Democrats " myth out of the water. And you KNOW McCain's gonna use that; it's all they have re domestic policy (even though it's a myth).

[Winterblues]

4. I don't know why they even bother any more, it is just a blur and can't even be read

Remember the last couple of years of the Clinton Administration they shut the thing off because the Debt was going down..