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Some people think of politics as a game. But an online game lets people think of themselves doing one of the hardest jobs in American politics: cutting the federal budget. The game is called Budget Hero. Students in Los Angeles and other cities have been playing it. Budget Hero lets them decide how they want to spend federal tax dollars. The game uses information from the Congressional Budget Office. It shows what effects each cost-cutting proposal would have.
High school student Dory Bennett says she thinks spending cuts are needed to keep the economy growing and keep the American dream alive. The students consider the same issues facing lawmakers in Washington.
The game was developed in 2008. In the newest version, students make decisions about what spending is important to them. A former Democratic representative from California offered students some ideas. Jane Harmon served in Congress for almost twenty years. She now heads the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which helped create Budget Hero. More than one million people have played it so far, she says, and she thinks they have learned at least two things. One is how hard it is, but two, that it can be done if there’s a will to do it.
Some students think the hardest thing for them to figure out was the little cuts like the gas money and stuff, increasing taxes on gas, because it would have effects everywhere from the truck drivers shipping our stuff across the country. It’s needed to look at the little things and realize that just because they’re small money doesn’t mean they’re small effects.
Some students will literally in the comments ask that Congress play this game to just get a little rational around the questions that have to be answered.
Ms. Harmon says the students are having more success than Congress at cutting the budget. Kids, and actually adults too who play this game, have open minds. They want to learn what the facts are. And sadly, a lot of Congress is a fact-free universe, and that is tragic for our country, for our country’s reputation, and for our economy and the livelihoods of millions of people who are presently out of work.
By saying "...they’re small money doesn’t mean they’re small effects"(Line 4, Para. 4), the author means that ______.