Tick, Tick, Tick

I sit here, looking out my office window, overlooking 44th street and down into the heart of times square. I can see the tourists wander through a maze of vendors, bumping into one another since their heads are pointed upwards to see all the neon lights and billboards. But, what always catches my attention is the "national debt" clock that is constantly churning upwards at over $1000 per second. $7,613,776,328,906... in the time it took me to type that, it is now $7,613,776,360,121. Each persons share is currently $83,103. Each day that goes up as well... $7,613,776,462,833. Tick, tick, tick... it just keeps going up and up. Typing it out in words makes me even sadder... Seven trillion six hundred thirteen billion seven hundred seventy-six million four hundred sixty-two thousand eight hundred thirty-three... $7,613,776,690,307... your share is up another dollar.

Update - just for those of you who are curious. I am about to leave work soon. The debt is not $7,613,795,427,973. That's right, it has increased over $19 million while we all sat at work today.