If you were the American President.

[ReverseLunge]

If you were the Presisent of the Untited States what kind of changes would you make in your country and internationally?

Here is what I would do domestically:

Get rid of welfare.
Get rid of minimum wage.
Create a flat tax rate.
Get rid of freebies for minorities.
Stop illegal immigration completely.
No more healthcare or schooling for illegals.
Enforce quick death penalty for illegals that have been caught twice
Enforce the use of non-fossil fuels.

Here is what I would do internationally:

Back off and let the Jews and Arabs kill themselves.
.......can't think of anything else at the moment.

But that's just me. I'm sure you guys have much more noble suggestions.

[Mr Epee]

I would spend a lot of time cruising around in Marine 1 with a megaphone.

[Inquartata]

My first act would be to repeal the charter of the Church of Epee.

My second would be to exile RL to France.

[ReverseLunge]

My first act would be to repeal the charter of the Church of Epee.

My second would be to exile RL to France.

I have actually been there and I think the French countryside is where I would like to retire to.

[Agent_V]

1. Declare "Path to Socialism" at first state of the union.

2. Watch the business elites' faces turn white faster than Michael Jackson.

3. Duck to avoid the sniper fire... from the secret service...

Alexander

[esskreemr]

My second would be to exile RL to France.

How would you handle the subsequent declaration of war by the French?

[Have At You]

By graciously accepting their unconditional surrender, of course!

[VERITAS]

If you were the Presisent of the Untited States what kind of changes would you make in your country and internationally?

You realize that there is a system of checks & balances to ensure that no 1 guy can really change much?

Here is what I would do domestically:

Get rid of welfare.
Get rid of minimum wage.

Very good - I approve!

Create a flat tax rate.

Explain how this would work. It sounds interesting.

Get rid of freebies for minorities.
Stop illegal immigration completely.
No more healthcare or schooling for illegals.

Good also. Easier said than done, though. What do you do with illegals in the country? Can they keep their jobs? Will they be deported, enstated as citizens, incarcerated, executed...?? Do you allow any immigration?

Enforce quick death penalty for illegals that have been caught twice

That's a little harsh: do you really think its necessary? [I see you reserve slow death for major crimes!]

Enforce the use of non-fossil fuels.

Interesting - what if you simply make them available at a lower price? I am disinclined to encourage gov't enforcing this kind of thing.

Here is what I would do internationally:

Back off and let the Jews and Arabs kill themselves.
.......can't think of anything else at the moment.

A foreign policy not without merit. Sure would save a lot of time and money.

Hypothetically, what if you believe that Arabs pose US a threat, and that the Jews are happy to kill Arabs, but may not be able to/want to stop them destroying US....

But that's just me. I'm sure you guys have much more noble suggestions.

Actually your suggestions aren't bad in my opinion.

The only other one that comes to mind unreservedy is

School Choice: to be instituted throughout the nation. This competition for Gov't funding will create an incentive for public schools to get their act together, and the parents ultimately deciding where to put their kids.
If public schooling turns out to be better than what the private sector has to offer it will prevail.
If the private choice schools can produce a better educated child, they will survive financially speaking and the other schools which do not will eventually fail - or perhaps be bought out.

Education is possibly the very best thing the government spends money on, and this simple step may be the single most important one to take in insuring its quality.

[ReverseLunge]

A flat tax rate means rich and poor are taxed the same percentage.

The way I see it jail time and rehabilitation is only for American citizens and residents. I'm in California and the illegals here who get caught here go to jail for a few weeks before they are deported and they just comeback within 3 days and sometiems within the same day. It is a serious problem. The only way to stop this is to put them to death.

As for the Jews and Arabs.....well I don't care much for either of them.

The Arabs hate us for helping the Jews and we are basically fighting a war for the Jews. So expensive! Let the Jews fight the Arabs and when thats over we can go in and take all the oil if that's what we really want.

[VERITAS]

The way I see it jail time and rehabilitation is only for American citizens and residents.

Makes sense.

I'm in California and the illegals here who get caught here go to jail for a few weeks before they are deported and they just comeback within 3 days and sometiems within the same day. It is a serious problem.

Certainly: this cannot be allowed to continue. It is a threat to national security for our borders to be so weak.

The only way to stop this is to put them to death.

Really? And who would do it? Set a bounty and declare year-round open season?

If you apprehend them and individually execute them, you will encounter a never-ending series of riots and protests.

Why not simply make the borders harder to cross and citizenship easier to get?

Let them come officially because they will come unofficially anyway. They may as well be paying taxes and voting too.

One of my good friends - a National Guardsmen - had a good idea for tightening border security.

As part of basic training everyone goes off to a base where at some point as part of training you get to keep watch in a foxhole all night. They also take long treks with all their equipment.

Why not station all army training centers along the borders?

If you think the situation has gotten so bad that Capital Punishment is necessary, I think I can do you one better.

Why not take over Mexico? Their country is obviously not nearly as nicely run as ours, as evidenced by the massive migration of their people to here.

We could run it better, improve the lives of the mexicans, and the country would be safer for it.

[ReverseLunge]

I don't want to have anything to do with Mexico or Mexicans. There is no way to help them since they don't help themselves. I think we should put land mines across the whole border.

[bmcfencer]

My second would be to exile RL to France.

France? Why does he get to go to france? I vote antarctica. Then the only things he could possibly do harm to would be the penquins, and they're pretty hardy. Though cute. Poor penguins.

[kalivor]

My second would be to exile RL to France.

France? Can't you choose a place where he'll be hard-pressed to get an internet connection?

[CheekyCanuck]

My second would be to exile RL to France.

A deserted island would be better. Send him back to the Stone Age, he obviously wants to set the US social assistance program back to that time.

[bmcfencer]

What?! Now he gets an island all to himself? No fair! I think we should give him a little cave way up in the Appalachian mountains in Tennessee. There's plenty of lichen to eat, he'll be fine.

[CheekyCanuck]

What?! Now he gets an island all to himself? No fair! I think we should give him a little cave way up in the Appalachian mountains in Tennessee. There's plenty of lichen to eat, he'll be fine.

Now all he needs is a gold ring and some fishes.

[jeff]

Hmm... the idea of RL being a creepy troglodyte murmuring "My Precious"... Oh wait, isn't he already?

[S. Hunter]

To make a quick list:

1) Renounce political affiliations, appoint competant apolitical people to cabinet positions
2) Propose a balanced budget 'Pay as you go' ammendment
3) Sleep

Although this is a debate 80 years old, I think activist executives are a bad thing as a whole, just create devisions and unncecessary drama and are used as political symbols to bash or praise. In short, i guess I'd take the G.W. approach - George Washington that is :-D

[S. Hunter]

1. Declare "Path to Socialism" at first state of the union.

2. Watch the business elites' faces turn white faster than Michael Jackson.

3. Duck to avoid the sniper fire... from the secret service...

Alexander

Except for, of course, a few lil things in the constitution and numerous state constitions (Wha? States have constitutions?!) that dont quite jive with a pure socialist view of property. (But you know, the way the supreme court is going, either right or left, the actual text of the constitution doesnt seem to matter much. Liberals get in and its Government uber Alles, Conservatives and its God uber Alles. Not much in the way of moderate proposals)

[introspective]

If I were the American President:

first of all I would drive through town in the car with the Rap Version of Hail to the Chief.....that is my tune! I love it - I'd smoke a big cigar and leer out of the window wearing a flashy tight skirt and my crew would be moving to the beat. I'd stand at the podium and my first words would be

"America.....you're free! - dance a little bit with me and my friends here".
Up goes the Hail to the Chief - rap style for about two or three minutes and when everyone was up and happy I'd say:

"Fellow American's I'm from a poor neighborhood and I understand how many people in America are like me. I am putting back the Welfare system and the only thing we plan to do with it is make it work! And, America, you don't want guns do you? No! I didn't think so. I am going to have monthly conferences with every single Govenor in the United States to cover all of the outstanding issues that have troubled Americans for many years and together we will develop plans to make America Come Alive again. We will talk about infrastructure, workforce issues, education issues, we will discuss public safety and how to use the resources that we do have to make America work again because it has been running down like a toy battery and it needs a tune up. I will not allow any s-of-b run this nation to the ground - we will not let a puny do nothing punk in the backwaters ruin this nation. Yes, we will see good times again, but right now we must put our shoulders to the wheel and get ready to fight a huge legacy of complacency and corruption that has long festered and I swear by everything holy that I will purge this nation of every corrupt person and put him out of office, every party boy looking for a sidesalad will be thrust out into the dark without a penny and the starving and struggling masses of people who have suffered over these years will have a victory. Yes I will sound like a dictator, but one thing will be clear to everyone in the world, I will be a good one

Exit with crew and Rapped "Hail to the Chief" A giagantic wave of applesauce hits the airwaves and we throw a bash for the country with block barbeques and balloons to signify a new day.