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Roll Call reports, “It’s not a doomsday clock or a pedometer, though it’s been confused for both.
The copper-cased ticker affixed to Rep. Thomas Massie’s lapel is a debt clock, tracking the country’s debt in real time using a complicated algorithm of the Kentucky Republican’s design — and raising eyebrows in the process.
Best article on my wearable debt clock so far…https://t.co/iGFoyDEUCO — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 3, 2023
Best article on my wearable debt clock so far…https://t.co/iGFoyDEUCO
Since Massie, who has voiced reservations about hiking the debt ceiling, debuted the device in late January, he’s worn it around the halls of Congress, to votes and at an event in his home district…
Massie, who studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first got the idea around Christmas and decided to order the parts. They include an Arduino ESP32, an advanced microcontroller that he programmed to scrub current and historic debt totals posted on the U.S. Treasury’s website to approximate the real-time debt, which exceeds $31.5 trillion and has hit the country’s statutory borrowing cap.
One of the reasons I built a wearable debt clock was to induce anxiety and a sense of urgency among my colleagues regarding the $31 trillion national debt. @KennedyNation pic.twitter.com/8Z07lYaDMq — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 27, 2023
One of the reasons I built a wearable debt clock was to induce anxiety and a sense of urgency among my colleagues regarding the $31 trillion national debt. @KennedyNation pic.twitter.com/8Z07lYaDMq
The difficult part of the process, Massie said, was writing the roughly 500 lines of code that feed the ticker — including programming that gives the steadily growing number a blurred effect, to hammer home the growth of the country’s mounting debt. ‘My design specification was to instill anxiety among my colleagues,’ Massie said. ‘And it’s hit the mark.’
With or without his debt clock, there’s anxiety enough to go around the Capitol regarding the debt ceiling.”
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