Think you have all the answers? Want to fix the federal government's spending policy? Up all night worrying about national debt as a percentage of GDP?

Boy do I have a game for you.  Budget Hero is a flash game which allows you to modify the spending of the US Government program by program.  Its an interesting balancing act, as you try to balance spending on national security vs healthcare and social security, just to keep the country afloat.  You pick and choose what cards you want to play (an example would be cut military spending by 10% or eliminate 1/2 of pork barrel projects), and based on that your years till bust meter rises and falls.

The results are pretty grim overall, even playing as a complete bastard libertarian (smaller government, economic stimulus, and alternative energies as my focus) I still was only able to keep the budget going until 2058.  (EDIT - I was able to extend my budget indefinitely by shrinking government by 20% and slashing military spending and social security)

Give it a shot, I would be interested to hear what your best budget is.  Keep in mind that there are some lefty biases built into the modeling. For example implementing CO2 caps results in an economic stimulus since the east coast doesn't become water logged due to global warming. It's still and interesting thought exercise and balancing act.