While We Slept

Last night at midnight, the U.S. Debt Clock registered the national debt at $15,701,159, 201,779.  This real-time clock mimics the physical one located at Times Square in New York City.  When I checked the clock again this morning at 7:30, the debt had escalated to roughly $15,701,768,604,027.  I say roughly because it was impossible to read the numbers on the far right since they were climbing approximately $100,000 every ten seconds.  In less than eight hours, while most of us slept, the national debt went up $609,407, 248.  We will do better with Mitt Romney as president.