I watched Fife Senior playing the virtual reality game Simcity. Simcity is a virtual reality game where you build your own city and run it as mayor. The game then throws different scenarios at you such as the need for public programs, hospitals, schools, recycling programs and a host of other things. The game also lets you know when citizens complain or demand changes. In the beginning his city had no place to put trash so it was all over the streets. Then they wanted a new school and a new hospital. Every day he tells me a little more about Fife City and how hard it is to run it and keep it going. When his city goes broke he has to find a way to make money so he can fund public programs and such.
All of this is just a game. I don’t live in Fife City run by Mayor Fife so I don’t benefit from public aid or get protection from his police department. I live in Indianapolis where huge, huge deficits were created because someone treated our economy like a game. Politicians played Russian Roulette and pointed the gun not at themselves but at the citizens of Indianapolis. Continue reading ‘Crumbs at My Table’
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