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National Debt Exceeds $11 Trillion

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation tweets the national debt every day, and today it just crossed above $11 trillion dollars. That’s a lotta samolians.
In fact, $11 trillion is about $112,000 per family, or $36,000 per person. That’s your debt even if you’ve got all your credit card bills paid up – just for [...]

Following the National Debt on Twitter

I’ve done a couple posts here on the national debt – the inability of the national debt clock in New York City to handle the rollover to $10,000,000,000,000.00, and the freezing of the Treasury Department’s online national debt clock, now resolved.
The other day, through the WashingtonWatch.com Twitter feed, I discovered a service that will send [...]

To Tweet or Not to Tweet

[Update: Click on the image at right or here to see WashingtonWatch.com's tweets.]
A couple of months ago, I signed up for a WashingtonWatch.com Twitter account. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (also known as “tweets”), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters [...]