STABILIZING THE U.S. DEBT

Try your hand at stabilizing the U.S. debt by using Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Simulation at http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/. Read through the Intro and click Next in

order to follow the simulation instructions. Answer the following questions once you have

completed the simulation:

Were you successful in stabilizing the U.S. debt? If not, how much of a deficit or surplus did

you end up with? What does this exercise tell you about the process of creating a budget plan?
Reexamine the budget cuts or increases you made. What problems would such changes pose for a

politician facing reelection?
This budget simulator allows you only to change spending and tax expenditures over a one-year

period. This poses what problems to finding a realistic economic solution?