The National Debt Never Sleeps—and Neither Should You »
Posted By y_soitenly 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Ready for a good scare? The national debt clock is now online, and it's brought 38 of its evil statistical friends with it to freak you out.
The running tally of the national debt is now online at USDebtClock.org, a site that is sure to fry your brain with — not just the sheer size of the debt, but — 38 other moving numbers, including debt per citizen and total spent on the bailout.
At last check, the debt was at more than $11.6 trillion, the debt per citizen was around $38,000 and the total spent on the bailout was more than $11.8 trillion.
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y_soitenly3 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA~
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On the Internet, you can have the national debt at your disposal, any time of the day or night — not just when you go to see a “show” in Times Square.
You can wake up and say, “Good morning, $11 trillion national debt!”
You can sneak a peek at work.
You can check it on your BlackBerry while you’re at dinner.
And you can kiss the debt goodnight before you go to bed.
Just close your eyes and imagine, as the numbers cascade down, the money for your kids’ education or that new Harley slipping through your fingers.
“I think people who are disturbed by the National Debt Clock are looking at it the wrong way,” said Joshua Brown, VP of investments at Westrock Advisors and the author of the blog TheReformedBroker.com. “I like to pretend it’s a giant slot machine and that I’m sitting in front of it with a bucket of quarters.” -
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onlyonesecret3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Thomas Jefferson, declared,
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
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