Wow this is cool!

I got the Bust date extended to 2037. I cut military spending, extended medicare/medicaid age, and cut other things too. I increased National Science Foundation spending and a few math/science things. I DID cut federal education spending (dept. of education is way out of control!)

What surprised me the most is that I reduced government from Big to Small, cut Debt as a % of GDP into the green zone, and am running a budget surplus.. YET, I only got 4 more years from the baseline of 2033!!!

lol in a world where money=debt, of course it's going to be impossible.

Giving it a try anyway because I'm curious to see how it works.

This seems like a dumb question but I can't get the game to run....It stays stagnant on the fir with the wording:

"The game starts 10 years from now to show the effects of current policy if it were to continue on, unchanged. Your main challenge: Push back the "Budget Bust" date as far back as possible.
One important note before you play:

We've based the game's calculations on data from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO works with congress to track the federal budget and to predict the impact of proposed federal policies.

The CBO assumes that tax cuts enacted under President Bush in 2001 and 2003 will expire in 2012. But, politically speaking, it's unlikely they will altogether expire. If you want to play a game closer to what politicians play, select the "Extend 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts" and "Link AMT to inflation" cards, and go from there."



How did you get it to work?

Am a downsizer... stretched it out to 2037 and brought it down by 18% but then again I'm not American, so perhaps I cut things in places that others might not and raised them in places others might not.

IMHO, the challenge lacks 2 real options, go to war and steal stuff or enable a new industrial revolution.. as for me those are the only real choices the West has to dig it's way out of this mess.

Just think when Britain was at it's height of power the country that she accused most of copying stuff and avoiding royalties and what not was America, and now America is throwing similar allegations at China..

If we don't find a way of turning this around and entering some kind of new industrial revolution and reclaim the lead in science, engineering and manufacturing we will be left behind.

Haha I should be POTUS, I decreased the deficit from 58.6% to 27% It said debt is no match for me

Very cool game

Very cool,charles.

I will play around with it abit and get back with you.

It's sort of like sims,in a way,if you know what that is.

Thanks for sharing this.

I added some small things and took away some big stuff and got it to 2040. By 2024 things started to look pretty good in my game. But I couldn't figure out how to alter what I was doing year by year or alter it again in 2025 as it slowly declined. In 2024 I had a 846 B +/- Surplus with a with 262 B interest on debt. Debt was 18.47% of GDP. As you can see in the picture I didn't even use the cut military spending card. I also increased Nasa by 50% for the lulz.