U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
<http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/>
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 04 Feb 2003 at 08:34:50 AM GMT is:
$ 6 , 4 1 2 , 1 7 4 , 6 9 0 , 4 3 5 . 4 1
The estimated population of the United States is 289,066,595
so each citizen's share of this debt is $22,182.34.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.45 billion per day since September 30, 2002!
From a recent Salon article on the debt:
<http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2003/02/04/budget/index.html>
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... there appears to be no plan -- other than hoping the economy will grow and revenues will increase -- to free the nation from that ever ticking burden. "What's significant about this budget is that it appears to abandon any particular fiscal policy goal," says Bob Bixby, executive director of the nonpartisan Concord Coalition. "It's a return of deficits as far as the eye can see and a president trying to justify why that's OK."
"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
-- Richard P. Feynman
