Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Balance the Budget Yourself!

With all the talk in Michigan lately of budget deficits and who's to blame, there has been no shortage of would-be solutions to the problem. I know I've got more than a few ideas as to how to fill the gap and I'm sure you do as well. This is great - it shows we're thinking. There's just one thing we have to keep in mind:

Balancing a state budget is hard.

See if you can do any better by trying out this game, which tasks you with trying to solve a state budget deficit. It's not as easy as one might think, but then again neither is trying to find over $600 million to cover state expenditures.

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