> I remember the early days of debt clocks, the huge tallying numbers in Union Square in NYC, and rhetoric, always from Republicans, claiming debt doom when Dem

> I remember the early days of debt clocks, the huge tallying numbers in Union Square in NYC, and rhetoric, always from Republicans, claiming debt doom when Democrats proposed spending and ignoring much larger deficits initiated by their own party. The clock in Union Square wasn't a debt clock. You're thinking of the much smaller display on 44th and 6th. [0] That Union Square clock originally told the time just styled as a single number. Ironically it has recently been reprogrammed to illustrate a critic window for action to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible [1]. About 7.5 years left. Do with that what you will [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/arts/design/climate-clock-metronome-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/arts/design/climate-clock...