National Debt Clock
Scary. I’m putting this up now as a post, but when I get a chance, I’ll also put it in the sidebar.
| The Gross National Debt |
Update: Dang, I should have noted what this was when I made this post. It’s now 5:10 pm, CDT, 18 Apr 2008, and the debt is at $9,404,978,000,000, more or less.
Updated Update: Huh. Now it’s 9:17, and the clock says $9,371,051,000,000–the debt has dropped by $30 billion in four hours? Developing.
Again with the update:
Here’s a snapshot of the clock from about 9:45 pm:
Another snapshot, 20 April 2008 3:27 pm:
At least it’s behaving monotonically now. I don’t know where that $9.404 trillion came from; I wish I’d taken a snapshot of that.
Tags: national debt, national debt clock
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
So McCain thinks that the short term economy problems are higher priority than the deficit. What do you think? Fix the short term problem or focus on the long term nightmare?
I think lowering taxes right now is insane. I think that the gas taxes should be refunded to truckers if we want to relieve pressure from gas costs on the society. The average joe needs to just stop driving so much. Period.
McCain thinks Reagan is god (at least recently he does) and the deficit tripled during the Reagan years. This worries me. The deficit is (to me) our biggest national security issue. Your thoughts?
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I want to cut the deficit by starving the beast–cutting the federal budget, except for defense, which is the key federal responsibility. We can start by rounding up agents of the DEA and the firearms division of the BATFX, and having them shot for violating their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
I certainly don’t want to increase the deficit by enlarging the budget, say by making the Post Office or Amtrak responsible for my health care.
How about this for a compromise? A matching plan, where every percentage increase in taxes must be matched by a percentage decrease in the budget, this decrease to be imposed across the board, including earmarks (but excepting defense).
April 25th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I think I like that matching plan. I’ll have to ponder that for a while. As far as defense, I don’t mind having a big ass mind but I do mind wasting it. I’d rather a lean smart military than a bulky stupid one. I think we have stretched our military far too thin because of many many many various and sundry bad decisions. And the Iraq war is just one example of stupid things we have done. Not even because we did it but, how we did it. We really really really need to win big now that we have opened that can of worms. We have made ourselves soooo vulnerable. Hmmm went off on a tangent . . .
The deficit is bad—–owing unbelievably large amounts of money to the Chinese—very bad.
Oh and sorry about your house being robbed.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
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