True national debt.

[Visinedrops]

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The US Debt Clock, which shows the debt of the country, along with credit card debt, unemployment figures, and tax revenue, is a great place to start asking questions.

First, when you open the clock, you see a figure of over $11T counting upwards to infinity, and just to the right of that figure is our $9T Gross Domestic Product income.

My question is: How can we maintain any economy if we don't have enough $$$ in GDP to cover our expenses to ourselves?

[Dracos]

In ancient Rome the poverty striken masses we apeased by "Bread and circuses". When Rome over-extended itself with foreign wars that exhausted its resources and the masses could no longer be apeased the empire collapsed.

[Skyowl's Wife]

I was watching one of these tickers a couple of days ago.

It was going up 150,000 dollars a tick, I thought each second. So I chanted, "thousand one", "thousand two" etc. It was going up 150,000 for each WORD, so about 300,000 each second.

These bastards make me sick.

[Pioneer]

I'm afraid to even look at the link. I don't feel all too comfortable with the direction we're heading its my opinion, without a total and complete overhaul of our governments, right down to permits and planning, I don't see too much "Change" in this once Great nation.

[HileTroy]

Makes one downright dizzy, if not overly sickened.