If you happen to be in the minority in America that is for the bailout that the House contemplates, which they are now trying to sell as a "rescue" plan, then you might find it interesting that national debt clock has run out of digits, according to CNN reporting this morning.

The first screencap above shows the clock which has had to have three digits added since 1989. Three digits. Here are how the 14 digits stack up:

$00, … 000, … 000, … 000, … 000
trillion … billion … million … thousand

So in 1989 when it went up the thought was that 99 billion of debt would be enough space. Then a first digit was added to make it to 999 billion. Oops, not enough. Move to 9 trillion ceiling which they believe would make it until Spring 2009. Not any more.

National debt close to doubles during Bush presidency

When George Bush took over the presidency in 2000, the national debt was at 5.78 trillion dollars:

By the time Bush leaves office the national debt will be close to double, just look where it is now:

No matter what your feelings are on the Iraq war or the bailout/rescuse/whatever the truth is clear: we can’t afford it!

Go straight to sextillion, already

If the national debt sign modders are smart they’ll just skip the 99 trillion ceiling and go straight to sextillion. At the rate this is growing that might last awhile. Doing this would skip quadrillion and quintillion and go straight to something sexy. Americans love sexy things, after all. That’s 21 zereos and would look something like this as a ceiling:

000 (sextillion),000 (quintillion), 000 (quadrillion), 000 (trillion), 000 (billion), 000 (million), 000 (thousand)

Seriously, here’s a better idea: let’s do something about paying down the debt. It’s going to be even more difficult to do this if the bailout/rescue/whatever is approved. The bailout/rescue/whatever that has now grown by another $150 billion and gone from an original draft of 3 pages to 451 pages of fat.

This is so illogical that it would drive the entire Vulcan race into extinction.

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