Congress and the Budget Proccess

After playing the simulation game I learned how hard it truly is to reach all of the goals of the union and lower the national debt. Every choice that progressed us as a nation just seemed to make the country more and more in debt. A congress member must truly think through every decision to make sure that it will not make the nation too far in debt and will help the nation in the long run enough so that the cost is worth the product.

One example is when I tried to make us self dependent on oil instead of relying on other countries to help us. This process cost us a fortune but in the long run I believed that it would help us as a nation and help our citizens and hopefully lower the gas prices for all.

In another example was when I tried to up the National Security. Everything I did seemed to have a negative effect tagged along with it which would cost America as a country a ton of money. If I wanted to seal up some of the borders, then we would not be able to import as much and then would not be able to export as much as well which would greatly hurt America which survives on.

In the final example, I tried to make America "Go Green." This was just an all around awful decision due to the fact that it just made someone angry no matter what the decision was but the decisions I did make seemed to cost about 1/4th the amount of the other decisions. When attempting to go green i wanted to increase funding for wildlife foundations which only costed $5 billion but that was less that we could use for  business and development.

In short, you can never truly win because it is completely impossible to make everybody happy at one time AND by lessening the national debt because decisions cost money and change costs money.