Congress Will Need to Use WOPR to Calculate Budget

Congressional Democrats announced today that they will need to employ the help of WOPR from the movie War Games to continue calculating the US budget.  The amount of spending and borrowing has become so extensive, that oridnary supercomputers are not adequate to track all of the numbers.

“We’ve already blown out two supercomputers just trying to keep track of Cash for Clunkers,” said a congressional spokesperson.  “By the time we get to health care reform and cap-and-trade, there just isn’t enough computing power available at the real world level.  Since the Cold War has ended, the WOPR is just sitting around playing chess these days.  Now we can put it to good use.”