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This a pretty easy question. You are President and you are giving your state of the union address. So, no commenting on each others. What 5 things would you change.
1. Bring home all military. And I mean all. Isolationism.
2. Fair Tax. Everyone pays in no loop holes.
3. Get rid of SSI.
4. Make all States "right to work" states.
5. Enforce immigration laws.
Like I said, no commenting on my policies.
Assuming absolute power (as you seem to be), I would:
1. End government deficits, no matter how painful the process.
2. Legalize gay marraige.
3. Establish health care as a basic human right.
4. End government subsidy of all religious and quasi-religious organizations (e.g. the BSA).
5. Provide a work visa and/or reasonable path to citizenship (e.g. the failed DREAM act) to remove the incentive to immigrate illegally.
You don't get to do all those things, but assuming you are going to pimp your top five agendae:
1. National Retail Sales Tax
2. Begin the phaseout of SSI and MCR. Everyone covered over 25 is still covered. If we can privatize the trust fund after a few years of NRST (assuming we are realizing debt reduction), we increase benefits for those still covered. We shrink the programs as population falls, and everyone not covered has ample time and 100% of their paycheck to put towards bills and planning. We model or arrange a private system to house those funds. Probably private annuities, since they're already in place. If you want your basic necessities prebate to go into you annuity account, I'm sure those companies will work with us to arrange it. Now your return is over 6% instead of -1.
3. Commitment from cabinet: every department will submit a budget with minimum 5% cuts. Pentagon, you're our most important responsibility, but there;s waste. Target it and cut it. Incentivize: if a department cuts 10% without detroying services, the entire department gets 1% as a bonus. Some cabinets will not enjoy the bonus offering, they are targeted for deletion and budget reduction is a phase out. Maybe a separate bonus structure for fast and smooth phase out. This includes the ad council, the Endowmentfor the Arts, etc. Major departments are not targeted for immediate phase-out.
4. End of stimulus and earmarks. Support bills that require identification of Constitutionality of new bills and identify germaneness of planks and amendments to current bills. CBO gains responsibility of noting lack of germaneness during scoring. I think the line item veto is unConstitutional, but I understand why conservatives want it. I wouldn't pursue it if bills had to be restricted to their original subject matter and bent to the Constitution in the text.
5. Illegal residence reform. Criminals deported. Crimes against citizens by foreign nationals used to seal case for border control. Everyone that comes legally is welcome. Everyone that wants citizenship may follow the process. Recognize state autonomy in their own law enforcement. Partner with states to address their concerns over federal enforcement to avoid money wasted on duplicatioand ensure federal promises are being met. Finally, no one will ever come from another country, stand on the WHite House lawn, and shame one of our own states. Folk with tougher immigrations laws and corrupt national police can say that crap from their yard, not ours.
Only 5? Rats.
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Hmmmmmm...
Sell off as much as I can for personal gain, move all high scientific business that has even remote government funding to a location I'd like to live at, and then sunder the country into perhaps 7 or 8 more manageable countries in the control of whatever Native American wanted to suddenly be in power while retreating to a heavily defensible position to work on mass space travel (and the possible colonization of the moon or something more feasible) as well as the genetic modification of my new subjects towards a more rapid advancement for surviving in other environments or other fun things.
Might be a bit too much for one day though.
Invite all the Playboy Playmates over to the white house for a "tuck & tickle" party to celebrate my new job.
First of all feel free to comment on my goals as president. I am not interested in shutting down comment and criticism of my polices as I am not afraid some of my more extreme ideas may draw some criticism.
1. Replace baseball and American football with Cricket and Rugby and basketball with Australian rules football.
2. Have Justin Bieber waterborded not for information just for fun
3. Force the following to happen: Jerusalem is to be an international city and administered by the united nations. The Palestinians are to get The West Bank, Gaza, Parts of the Negev desert and a large chunk of the Sinai and Israel is to be recognised by the Arab world (with the world paying for infrastructure and desalination plants).
4. Have Justin Bieber shot out of a cannon at Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Keesha, snooki and other vapid mindless trash in a fun game human skittles.
5. There is no 5 or is there... have 5 established as a conspiracy theory. Make up story's about number 5 being guarded at area 51 by the Nordics and the Greys. While the Pentaverate dance naked around it...
6. Institute America appreciates Canada day as a national holiday just because Canadians are nice and I like them. Except if your name is Justin Bieber, if you are a Bieber you get 30 seconds head start and people are allowed to nipple cripple you if they catch you.
7. Ban soccer - unless it is played naked and in jelly (Jello for you Americans)
8. Change Jello to Jelly, Jelly to Jam, Cookies to biscuits and make sure that you know how to make a decent coffee, disguising crap tasting coffee with fragen flavoured syrup does not work.
9. Stop supporting pro western military dictatorships and suggest that if the dictators dont step down then, they will be abandoned and left to the people that they have been oppressing with the US supplied hardware.
10. Be nice to the French and say thank you for your help in obtaining independence because with out your volunteers, money and weapons we would have lost....
11. Have anybody that says "we saved your asses in two world wars" kicked in the nuts every armistice day for the rest of their lives.
12. Stop subsidising US farmers and wasting billions of dollars on food that just rots and teach them how to compete on the world market.
13. Your language is ENGLISH for god sake and you shall use the Queens English when you write something... It is Colour not Color and it is Labour not Labor...
14. Make you go Metric.
15. Enshrine Science, Evolution and Critical thinking in the Constitution.
16. Divide the US into 3 Countries North, South and the West Coast.
17. Hookers and blow
18. Profit
That is my platform and policies... unfortunately I am disqualified because I was not born or am a citizen of the US of A.
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1. New nation wide law - while driving, you can only use the cell phone if you have a hands free set. If you are caught driving and talking without one, you loose your driving privileges forever.
2. Mandatory minimum speed limits on highways and interstates.
3. Anyone who gets in the passing lane and goes too slow looses their driving privileges forever.
4. Baseball caps can only be worn with the bill facing either forwards or backwards - not to the side.
5. Grant Morrison is hereby banned from ever writing comic books again, and the character of Damian Wayne is banned.
6. Movies with sparkly vampires who have too much teen angst are banned - same for books and TV series.
7. Popeyes is the official fast food place of the country. KFC, Chic Filet, Churches, and any other fried chicken place I'm not familiar with are all outlawed.
8. Chick flicks are limited to one per season.
9. Grey's Anatomy is outlawed.
10. Labardoodles - outlawed!!!!!!
11. The TV show Firefly is brought back. The studio execs who decided to cancel it are imprisoned forever and their names erased from all public records.
That's all I can think of for now....
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You don't get to do all those things, but assuming you are going to pimp your top five agendae:
1. National Retail Sales Tax
2. Begin the phaseout of SSI and MCR. Everyone covered over 25 is still covered. If we can privatize the trust fund after a few years of NRST (assuming we are realizing debt reduction), we increase benefits for those still covered. We shrink the programs as population falls, and everyone not covered has ample time and 100% of their paycheck to put towards bills and planning. We model or arrange a private system to house those funds. Probably private annuities, since they're already in place. If you want your basic necessities prebate to go into you annuity account, I'm sure those companies will work with us to arrange it. Now your return is over 6% instead of -1.
Given the previous experiences seen when public functions are privatised, Why would anyone believe that the result would be anything other than higher costs and lowered service to the public? Remember when you privatise a government function it's primary goal changes from serving the public... to turnning a profit. Is that so hard to understand?
There was a time when I identified myself with gamers. But given the resounding far right wing attitudes I see prevailing among them... I'm not so sure any more.
Gamers, as a group, are as diverse as any other grouping. For every Ancient Sensai, there's a Bugleyman who's jut as passionate in comoletely the opposite direction. We no more share a political philosphy than baseball fans do.
1. New nation wide law - while driving, you can only use the cell phone if you have a hands free set. If you are caught driving and talking without one, you loose your driving privileges forever.
2. Mandatory minimum speed limits on highways and interstates.
3. Anyone who gets in the passing lane and goes too slow looses their driving privileges forever.
4. Baseball caps can only be worn with the bill facing either forwards or backwards - not to the side.
5. Grant Morrison is hereby banned from ever writing comic books again, and the character of Damian Wayne is banned.
6. Movies with sparkly vampires who have too much teen angst are banned - same for books and TV series.
7. Popeyes is the official fast food place of the country. KFC, Chic Filet, Churches, and any other fried chicken place I'm not familiar with are all outlawed.
8. Chick flicks are limited to one per season.
9. Grey's Anatomy is outlawed.
10. Labardoodles - outlawed!!!!!!
11. The TV show Firefly is brought back. The studio execs who decided to cancel it are imprisoned forever and their names erased from all public records.
That's all I can think of for now....
I like your ideas, do you have any literature to which I could subscribe... I shall vote early and vote often for you Aberzombie...
Aberzombie for president may he be a great president like Ross Perot.
I'd lament at the number of people who don't understand the limits of presidential authority as enumerated in the Constitution. For example, no president could legally do any of these:
* Fair Tax. Everyone pays in no loop holes.
* Get rid of SSI.
* Make all States "right to work" states.
* End government deficits, no matter how painful the process.
* Legalize gay marraige.
* Establish health care as a basic human right.
1. Revocation of any law that threatens or could threaten freedom of speech, in the absolutely widest definition possible.
2. Revocation of any law that treats, or in certain circumstances could treat, people differently depending on anything but actions of said person.
3. Revocation of any law that allows for any entity to wiretap, register or otherwise use covert surveillance, except after judicial decision. This also includes removing every sort of secret registers.
4. Revocation of any law that forbids or makes more difficult the ability to remain anonymous, encrypt data, or communicate privately.
5. Revocation of any law that allows any sort of entities (excepting individuals) to keep information secret beyond two years, and that only for direct threats. And yes, this includes full disclosure, opening up every secret archive that exists. Oh, and it includes full data about any sort of money every elected politician has and where it came from.
For precisely these reasons, I would never become president.
1. Send out for hookers and blow.
2. Have Jessica Alba summoned to the Oval Office.
3. Do my wife on the desk in the Oval Office.
4. Do Ms. Alba and my wife on the desk in the Oval Office.
5. Renew my PF subs.
1) Drop the "Mr President" thing. "Sir" is fine, "Mr Green" is fine, even "Kelvin" would be fine. "Mr President" would rub me the wrong way every day for four years, and I'd probably end up nuking something out of frustration.
2) Get a better national anthem. The theme from Cheers will do in the interim.
3) Drop the presidential anthem. The leader of the free world should not be walking out to a rejected Benny Hill Show tune.
4) Make election a result of lottery. You've got a social security number, you've got a chance at office. Once you've served at least one term in office, you can run for president.
5) The person who comes in second in the presidential election gets the office of vice-president as a consolation prize.
Second day: Gay marriage, universal health care, scrapping the nukes (see 1, above), etc.
1. Send out for hookers and blow.
2. Have Jessica Alba summoned to the Oval Office.
3. Do my wife on the desk in the Oval Office.
4. Do Ms. Alba and my wife on the desk in the Oval Office.
5. Renew my PF subs.
I like your ideas, do you have any literature to which I could subscribe... I shall vote early and vote often for you Lord President Moorluck...
Lord President Moorluck for president may he be a great president like Ross Perot.
A solid election platform
If you can get Hookers and blow or Jesica Alba involved - I may vote for you.
I'd throw a party like Andrew Jackson.
1. Acquire an apprentice.
2. Execute Order 66.
3. Wipe them out. All of them.
4. Baseball caps can only be worn with the bill facing either forwards or backwards - not to the side.
LOL. Silly.
5. Grant Morrison is hereby banned from ever writing comic books again, and the character of Damian Wayne is banned.
I like the way you think!!!
11. The TV show Firefly is brought back. The studio execs who decided to cancel it are imprisoned forever and their names erased from all public records.
Or at least I did until you got to this one. Firefly will return to the airwaves in a non-syndicated format only over my dead body.
1. Send out for hookers and blow.
2. Have Jessica Alba summoned to the Oval Office.
3. Do my wife on the desk in the Oval Office.
4. Do Ms. Alba and my wife on the desk in the Oval Office.
5. Renew my PF subs.
1. Acquire an apprentice.
2. Execute Order 66.
3. Wipe them out. All of them.
*shudder*
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I would propose the following Amendments:
* Congressional seats, rather than being elected, would be selected by lottery. Each person selected would have to serve one year, then removed from office, never to serve again.
* Congressional salaries would be docked the same percentage that the annual budget goes into deficit. (20% over budget, 20% pay cut).
* Presidential primaries and elections would follow the American Idol/Bachelor reality-show format.
I'd lament at the number of people who don't understand the limits of presidential authority as enumerated in the Constitution. For example, no president could legally do any of these:
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* End government deficits, no matter how painful the process.
* Legalize gay marraige.
* Establish health care as a basic human right.
I prefaced my comments with "Assuming absolute power (as you seem to be), I would:," a pretty obvious indicator that I do, in fact, understand the limits of presidential authority.
But hey, don't let facts slow you down.
1- Let any and all tax cuts expire at the originally agreed-upon date. EDIT- Consider the Fair Tax legislation that is put forth the year I am elected into office, and put it up for public debate and scrutiny. Ask those behind it to answer for any and all potential loopholes, perhaps a bit brusquely.
2- Review, debate, and modify immigration laws/end incentive to break said laws.
3- Review, debate and modify social security and health care laws/end incentive to break said laws.
4- Legalize gay marriage.
5- Review, debate and modify(potentially cancel) any and all existing government contracts(including those with employees and elected officials) with an eye towards saving money. Flat across the board cuts are to be avoided, removal of funding for unnecessary services is to be encouraged(shore patrols for land-locked states, etc).
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13. Your language is ENGLISH for god sake and you shall use the Queens English when you write something... It is Colour not Color and it is Labour not Labor...
What are you talking about? Didn't you hear that we got special permission from the Queen herself to speak English as we like.
Well except we can't say that "we couldn't care less," or that we'd "hold down the fort." David Mitchell wouldn't lie to us I'm sure!
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1) Outlaw Lobbyism. George Washington was right. All Lobbyists must leave Washington within 90 days (or something) and Lobbyism is illegal immediately.
2) Send all members of the House of Representatives home. Their job is at home, not away from home. Let House members work on local and State laws. The Senate stays in D.C. and works on Federal Law.
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13. Your language is ENGLISH for god sake and you shall use the Queens English when you write something... It is Colour not Color and it is Labour not Labor...What are you talking about? Didn't you hear that we got special permission from the Queen herself to speak English as we like.
Well except we can't say that "we couldn't care less," or that we'd "hold down the fort." David Mitchell wouldn't lie to us I'm sure!
Now, there is a man I would be happy to see in charge.
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?
Yes, please. Let's all give real answers, which, given the powers constitutionally granted to a President, and the reality of the office, would also require us to speculate as to the facts and circumstances surrounding our alleged election, the political coalitions that made it possible, the international affairs in place as of the date of the election, and the thousands of other factors that determine what the President can and cannot do (particularly on his first day), constitutionally or otherwise.
Let's try and keep this hypothetical question real, even if the reality of the situation is so far removed and speculative from the slim hypothetical question that it renders the entire exercise moot.
In the realm of plausability, I think on the first day, my acts would consist of being sworn in, attending whatever type of orientation occurs, taking a good healthy s&$$, and eating 2-3 meals. After that, maybe I'd press gang the VP and the secret service detail to play a game of Pathfinder with me in the oval office.
Then I'd use my presidential powers to fly faster than a speeding bullet, lift a locomotive, and leap tall buildings in a single bound. (Check Article XIV, it details the superhuman powers granted the president).
Edit: Oh yeah, and then order the U.S. Navy to enforce an embargo around Australia, just for the hell of it.
You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?
Hell, the presidents we've had since FDR (and a few earlier ones)haven't bothered limiting themselves to the Constitution, in promises or the real excercise of power, so why should these posters? Our vaunted constitutional republic is a hollow shell, at this point.
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You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?Hell, the presidents we've had since FDR (and a few earlier ones)don't bother limiting themselves to the Constitution, in promises or the real excercise of power, so why should these posters? Our vaunted constitutional republic is a hollow shell, at this point.
wow.
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Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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wow.You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?Hell, the presidents we've had since FDR (and a few earlier ones)don't bother limiting themselves to the Constitution, in promises or the real excercise of power, so why should these posters? Our vaunted constitutional republic is a hollow shell, at this point.
I know. And he didn't even mention that every president since Benjamin Franklin has been an animal rapist.
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I know. And he didn't even mention that every president since Benjamin Franklin has been an animal rapist.wow.You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?Hell, the presidents we've had since FDR (and a few earlier ones)don't bother limiting themselves to the Constitution, in promises or the real excercise of power, so why should these posters? Our vaunted constitutional republic is a hollow shell, at this point.
Then you better watch out pony boy.
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Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Then you better watch out pony boy.I know. And he didn't even mention that every president since Benjamin Franklin has been an animal rapist.wow.You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?Hell, the presidents we've had since FDR (and a few earlier ones)don't bother limiting themselves to the Constitution, in promises or the real excercise of power, so why should these posters? Our vaunted constitutional republic is a hollow shell, at this point.
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Then you better watch out pony boy.I know. And he didn't even mention that every president since Benjamin Franklin has been an animal rapist.wow.You folks do realise that most of what you propose is beyond the powers constitutionally granted a President. how about some real answers here?Hell, the presidents we've had since FDR (and a few earlier ones)don't bother limiting themselves to the Constitution, in promises or the real excercise of power, so why should these posters? Our vaunted constitutional republic is a hollow shell, at this point.
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Also, flag it and move on.
What 5 things would I change?
1. Underpant
2. Trouser
3. Shirt
4. Sock
5. other sock