The governor has put a deficit counter on his website, like the national debt clock in New York.

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It is inspired by the National Debt Clock, which gathered a large amount of attention when it was first posted in Manhattan in the late 1980s.

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AMERICA'S infamous debt clock, near New York's Times Square, was switched off in 2000 after the national burden started to fall thanks to several years of Clinton-era budget restraint.

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