The debt actually does go down from time to time. When the site operator updates the site, the formula for the counter is adjusted depending on whether the debt has gone up or down from the last time it was adjusted.
83 posted on 05/10/2005 5:26:55 PM PDT by NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)