The Debt Clock Can't Keep Up...

[Tarheel]

If this wasn't so serious a sign of the times (to use the AP's un-intentional pun) it might be humorous...

NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits

NEW YORK - In a sign of the times, 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_national_debt_clock;_ylt=AvuG5JqrBLm9v4c0ui1lLBADW7oF

[RWS]

i cannot express how much i think this whole situation is fucked up as a football bat. the stock market is now in worse shape than it was when this bailout shit failed. we basically passed a $700 billion blank check. they don't know how to use it, when to use it, where it will be used, or how much will be used.....but hey, $700 billion sounds like a nice round number. yeah, lets go with that. if we flood the market with that much money, it is bound to do SOMETHING, right? 

[Tarheel]

i cannot express how much i think this whole situation is fucked up as a football bat. the stock market is now in worse shape than it was when this bailout shit failed. we basically passed a $700 billion blank check. they don't know how to use it, when to use it, where it will be used, or how much will be used.....but hey, $700 billion sounds like a nice round number. yeah, lets go with that. if we flood the market with that much money, it is bound to do SOMETHING, right? 

At the risk of sounding like the choir...A-MEN!

I like your simile use; "fucked up as a football bat".  Clever.