Budget Hero 2.0 Allows You To Fix National Budget
by Keith Sadler, posted on 01 August 2011 / 1,304 Views
A new version of web game Budget Hero 2.0 allows you to see the real challenges of balancing the budget without political rhetoric. Overseen by American Public Media, in cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, you can implement major policy changes to defense spending, overseas aid, and infrastructure. You can see the effects of a larger government combined with lower taxes for your constituents and how long your budget plan would be viable.
The game is very accurate and unbiased toward the major political decisions of today. It draws calculations from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Jane Harman former California congresswoman and current Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center says,
Budget Hero provides facts - not spin or ideological talking points - such as exactly how much we spend on foreign assistance, the military budget, health care and on entitlements, and what difference it would make to cut or eliminate them, or to increase them. At a time when the congressional conversation about the budget has all but broken down, we are here...to provide a teaching tool to the American people...That way, the American public can become the heroes we need.
Video games like this can help the public sort through the bull and discover how we really feel about complex issues that effect our daily lives like the national budget.
