US National Debt

[betsybug]

The US National Debt is now:

The estimated population of the United States is 304,879,686
so each citizen's share of this debt is $33,617.35 (as at 10 Oct 08 03:09:48 AM GMT).

The US National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.29 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

The creditors include countries around the world including Singapore (our share is US$33.3b as at Apr 2008 ).

 

[betsybug]

This from Wikipedia:

"In the midst of extensive media attention devoted to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, some news reports again turned to the National Debt Clock as a symbol and metaphor, particularly highlighting the fact that the clock ran out of digits when the U.S. public debt rose above $10 trillion on September 30, 2008. An overhaul or complete replacement adding two more digits to the clock's display is currently in the planning for 2009. Until the clock can be upgraded, the unit that showed the dollar sign has been changed to instead show the leading digit '1', with a dollar sign sticker attached next to it."

Yankee ingenuity.

 

[Liberator]

damn,thats scary man
so much numbers!

 

[Weiht]

they dun have to pay the whole sum, just interest and it makes it so sick!!!