There can’t be a single visitor to New York City in the past 22 years who did not stop and look at the National Debt Clock. Located variously downtown (42nd Street and then on Sixth Avenue) the debt clock was the ominous signal of doom. It’s just that nobody cared to take it seriously. We’ve looked at it many times. Can it really mean we are headed for that kind of trouble? Could it? Won’t someone do something? The answer was “Nope.” The American Dream was the American Daydream. Linked here at the Bulldog Review is the NBC News report on the day in 2008 the debt exceeded $10 trillion,. It should have made citizens gather everywhere and demand a stop. Notice how calmly Brian Williams reads the story. Inset, the clock in 1989.