The National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.
As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure -- the "1" in $10 trillion.
It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion.
The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.
The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt.
We're already fucked...most of the sheeple just don't realize it yet. How many of you are aware that Iceland's banks went under this week? Iceland is a small country but they deregulated their banks similar to what the USA did with theirs over the last few years. Those banks started spending money like crazy and it caught up to them late last week. The government had to buy one (kinda like we are doing).
The only reason Iceland isn't totally fucked right now is because Russia offered to loan them a lot of money this week after Europe and the US initially refused to do so.
