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National Budget Simulation: allows you to play with different assumptions about how money will be spent, relative to current spending patterns.
I like the concept of this sort of thing. But you know what? _Anybody_ that plays with this will be able to come up with budget savings; it doesn't require any particular virtue, just a less diffuse set of priorities than Congress has. If you want me to be impressed with your economic acumen, get together with 534 people of diverse interests and backgrounds in different areas of the country and come up with a budget that you can get 51% of them to support. I doubt you'll be able to cut it as far under those circumstances.
Representative democracy sure sucks when not everyone agrees with you, huh? (Or even when most do, but hold out for quid pro quos anyway.)
iPod baby costumes (from BoingBoing)
The iron-on graphic is especially nice.
Daily Illuminator: Iraq Agrees on Constitution
"Next up for discussion is Dexterity."
heh heh heh...
I like the concept of this sort of thing. But you know what? _Anybody_ that plays with this will be able to come up with budget savings; it doesn't require any particular virtue, just a less diffuse set of priorities than Congress has. If you want me to be impressed with your economic acumen, get together with 534 people of diverse interests and backgrounds in different areas of the country and come up with a budget that you can get 51% of them to support. I doubt you'll be able to cut it as far under those circumstances.
Representative democracy sure sucks when not everyone agrees with you, huh? (Or even when most do, but hold out for quid pro quos anyway.)
iPod baby costumes (from BoingBoing)
The iron-on graphic is especially nice.
Daily Illuminator: Iraq Agrees on Constitution
"Next up for discussion is Dexterity."
heh heh heh...
