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This Is Where Each Of Your 1421 Trillion Dollars Is Going In 2010

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:30:07 +0000

Want to know where your tax money is going next year? Here’s more than you can handle in the new 2010 edition of the Death and Taxes poster. Zoom in to see how much those F-35 fighters and lasers cost.

The Death and Taxes poster shows every single expense according to the president’s 2010 budget request. The circles you see here are proportional in size to their actual weight in the total budget. Each of the figures include the percentage change compared to 2009.

Defense spending is more or less the same, only increasing by 2%. And still, everything else looks minuscule.

National Debt Clock To Get Most Depressing Upgrade Ever

John Mahoney — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:40:00 +0000

It was a bad sign when the National Debt Clock on Sixth Avenue in NYC ran out of space this past weekend, calling for the screen previously used for the dollar sign to be used for the 1 in 10 trillion. Now, the real estate mogul Seymour Durst who put up the sign back in 1989 has announced that the current clock will be replaced next year with one that can accommodate figures in the quadrillions–that’s 15 zeroes. Hopefully that’ll buy at least two or three more years of worry-free service. Time to have a look at our next great depression gadget guide? [CNN, Photo: Jesper Rautell Balle]

Yep, We’re Screwed: National Debt Clock Runs Out of Numbers

Matt Buchanan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:40:00 +0000

It’s official. We’re hosed. The National Debt Clock near Times Square has just run out of spaces to add more zeroes to its running count of our national debt, thanks to the one-two punch of the $US700 million Wall Street bailout and the $US100 million used to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before that. If you haven’t already read our guide to gadgets to get you through the Next Great Depression, how to make your current gadgets weather the storm or abandoned all hope, now’s a good time to start. [WKYC]