Budget Puzzle

Posted on 11/22/2010 @ 09:30 AM

Tags: Federal Budget, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons

On November 13th the New York Times launched an online interactive you-fix-the-deficit-puzzle. The Budget Puzzle allows readers to pick and choose what they would cut from the budget or what taxes they would raise in order to close the ballooning deficit. The puzzle has been well received with over 1 million views.

A full tabulation of the responses has not yet been compiled, but a sample has been taken from over 11,000 Twitter messages about the puzzle. This sample is definitely not a purely scientific sample size, but it does give an insight into how people (Twitter tends to be used by younger people) think we should fix the deficit.

Can you guess what the most popular option among all respondents was?????

79% opted to reduce the Military to less than its size before the Iraq war!

71% opted to reduce the nuclear arsenal!

69% opted to cancel or delay some weapons programs!

Also, lets not forget that the Budget-Puzzle was limited in its scope. What other areas could we limit spending, or what other solutions do you have for the deficit?