http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/

9/30/2008 9:18:13 PM

no

9/30/2008 9:22:26 PM

I'm not Bill Clinton.

9/30/2008 9:22:41 PM

1) Nuke China.
2) ...
3) Profit!

9/30/2008 9:23:14 PM

cool idea, but i'm not going to spend the time to play that.

9/30/2008 9:23:30 PM

^^^ lol

The comments on the page are pretty funny.

Quote :

"THE Great depression will look good! compared to 2009"

Quote :

"I call bullshit you let me cut military by 10% but that option was not available. for other items. Typical ploy that has YOUR support up for grabs but other items are off limits."

Quote :

"And the so-called "War on Terror" and "War on Drugs" are complete shams and huge wastes of resources. 3000 people died in one attack in the last 50 years. That many people worldwide die EVERY DAY from malaria. Where's the War on Malaria?"

[Edited on September 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM. Reason : .]

9/30/2008 9:26:02 PM

What's interesting to me is that self described democrats and republicans ended up with similar sized governments by budget, except the democrats had a slightly lower national debt.

9/30/2008 9:55:56 PM

If you repeal the Bush tax cuts, you basically win the game

9/30/2008 10:06:59 PM

i tried to cut everything i could and still it was horrible

9/30/2008 10:12:54 PM

I'm a downsizer...

fuck you game

9/30/2008 10:14:18 PM

I made a budget sustainable to "2070+".

9/30/2008 10:14:39 PM

^5 two sides of the same coin, friend.

[Edited on September 30, 2008 at 10:15 PM. Reason : ^^]

9/30/2008 10:15:39 PM

Awesome game.

10/1/2008 12:11:02 AM