Bailouts Just for Fun

The economy is a serious matter, but there’s already a casual game online on the topic: Trillion Dollar Bailout.

The point of the game is to field a number of requests from business and homeowners for federal money.  You decide who you bailout and who you ignore.  A live graph (the “economy bar”) zig zags up and down based on your decisions’ effects on the economy.

Now, I wonder if there’s a hidden small government message to the game, because when I started doling out cash to certain pork projects while ignoring troubled mortgagors and troubled corporations, the economy tanked.

But the second time I played, I did nothing.  I handed out zero government cash.  And this is what resulted:

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H/T: GamePolitics

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