by Claudine Zap You're sitting at a desk with a red pen. Your mission: Cut the budget. You take the pen and slash! Medicare is erased. But wait, now elderly citizens are up in arms. So you double back. Instead, you cut funding to  NASA . But now the astronauts are mad. OK, how about the Bush tax cuts ? Poof! Oh, boy. This means the Tea Partiers are coming after you. Sheesh, this is hard. But as a video game , well, maybe it's kind of fun.