Steve Ballmer To Create U.S. Debt-Reducing Game

Edge Online ^ | April 14, 2010 | Staff

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President Obama's administration has asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer to create a game about reducing the U.S. deficit.

Erskine Bowles, co-chair of Obama's fiscal commission, wants the game to be made so the general public can have a go to balancing the budget, reports USA Today.

Such a game, should it be created, would be part of the U.S. Government trying to find a solution to addressing the United States' $12.8 trillion debt. Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska says the game could "go viral."

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good post Citizen. you are correct — a good start would be for the lies and spin to stop. we’re just pushing our debt off and we cannot forever — we may not pay the piper this year but when we do — whoa boy. I have come to the conclusion that people usually do not want the truth — it takes a certain amount of character to be able to recognize a problem AND correct it. I think a lot of Americans have lost that or where never taught that.

anyway, it’s quite possible Democrats are convinced high taxes equal prosperity. I swear I have heard no less than 3 times this past week from different Democrats (one in a Houston Chronicle letter to the editor) the quote:

“taxes were highest in the 1950’s and America was the most prosperous then so a high tax rate is good”.

I realize that it was easier for these folks to repeat that statement (Lord knows where they read or hear it — I’m not Googling it) without intellectually challenging it by putting some critical thinking skills to use. And I know — because I’ve put a lot of thought into this — I can’t fix stupid — so I just move on.