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Why settle for a kludge when a monument is needed?

It’s been widely noted that the national debt clock, erected by NYC real estate magnate Seymour Durst to protest the now-quaint US$2.7 trillion debt in 1989, has run out of digits, and that “[a]s a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been replaced with an integer—the ‘1’ [...]

“Yard sale nation”

But Mr. Kunstler, it’s an estate sale.
The problem is pretty simple: like most Americans, politicians get their “news” from TV. When TV news fails to present an overview of the problems the US and its citizens face, the politicians don’t know what the problems are.