If You Were President...

[Buckdodgers]

Ever wish you could whisper in the president's ear? Give him advice on issues plaguing the nation? Well, here's your chance to tell the world what you would do if you were president of the United States. Twice weekly, we'll ask our readers a question about an issue facing the nation and post your responses here.
If You Were President...Would you ...

Id would Cut taxes both on the Middle Class and Upper class.And if you make under $20,000 a year you pay no federal income taxes.

Id would invade Iran by reinstate the Draft and make it harder for them to desert to canada by sticking undercover FBI agents at the border.If caught sneaking into canada you will be arrested and prositcuted.The Penalty is up to 20 years in federal prison without the possibilty of parole.

Id would stick a naval blockade and no food,,No oil,,No medicene and no goods to North Korea and make kim jung make the first move.

 

[Oceanbreeze]

If I was President, I would veto any legislation that would criminalize abortion procedures. I would sign legislation recognizing same-sex marriage. I would change the "Don't Ask, Don't tell" policy. I would mandate changes in Social Security laws, to make it more fair to people. I would also change Medicaid laws, so that people could work and also keep badly needed services.

I could go on, but that's just off the top of my head.

Oh, yeah...I would also divert money given to NASA and the space program to other areas that are badly needed here in our Country. I would also work to get our troops out of Iraq. I would reign in N. Korea.

 

[LuciaDisturbed]

If I was President, I would veto any legislation that would criminalize abortion procedures. I would sign legislation recognizing same-sex marriage. I would change the "Don't Ask, Don't tell" policy. I would mandate changes in Social Security laws, to make it more fair to people. I would also change Medicaid laws, so that people could work and also keep badly needed services.

I could go on, but that's just off the top of my head.

Oh, yeah...I would also divert money given to NASA and the space program to other areas that are badly needed here in our Country. I would also work to get our troops out of Iraq. I would reign in N. Korea.

If you were actually running for president, I think I'd vote for you.

 

[Oceanbreeze]

If you were actually running for president, I think I'd vote for you.

Thanks, Lucia

Unfortunately, I don't think this country is ready for a woman President.

 

[Buckdodgers]

If I was President, I would veto any legislation that would criminalize abortion procedures. I would sign legislation recognizing same-sex marriage. I would change the "Don't Ask, Don't tell" policy. I would mandate changes in Social Security laws, to make it more fair to people. I would also change Medicaid laws, so that people could work and also keep badly needed services.

I could go on, but that's just off the top of my head.

Oh, yeah...I would also divert money given to NASA and the space program to other areas that are badly needed here in our Country. I would also work to get our troops out of Iraq. I would reign in N. Korea.

You sound like this man.

Under your Policy Al Qudea would had done this in NYC

 

[sillycat]

If I was president, I would have larger ssi $$ (living wages level) given to the deafies and other disabled people for the rest of their lives. Never have to work again

 

[Oceanbreeze]

You sound like this man.

Under your Policy Al Qudea would had done this in NYC

I would know what I'm doing before, I dealt with these countries. I firmly believe that Clinton was the reason we are in the mess that we're in now. He affectively stuck his head in the sand and ignored foreign policy when he was President. I would NOT do that. People would actually take ME seriously, but you can relax, Buck. I'm not crazy enough to run for President.

 

[Teresh]

You sound like this man...
Under your Policy Al Qudea would had done this in NYC...

You sound like this man

Under your policy, the US military would do this to NYC

 

[pek1]

If I were President . . .

This is a loaded question, so I will give you my views.

1. Cut the president's salary, as well as all cabinet members and all members of Congress to zero. This is now a volunteer position. If any member of any branch has been convicted of a felony, they will never be able to serve in any office. Cut the salaries of the Supreme Court, as well.
2. You want an abortion? You got it! Go get the guy that got your pregnant and we'll "fix" the two of you, collect your dna, blood samples and type, as well as any and all identification numbers you have (to prevent any possible reverse operations and to prevent you and your honey from adopting children), then we'll take your picture for reference. You have chosen not to be a parent, ever, and we'll guarantee it! You will be required to check in as often as deemed necessary to ensure that you haven't broken the law in doing this.
3. Bring back the barbed wire fences around the state hospitals for the criminally and mentally insane, and not let them out, not even for family visits.
4. Cut all lobbyist activities in Congress, as they're influencing how our legislators vote and their votes aren't doing their constituents any good.
5. Cut all social security, medicare, medicaid, welfare and all other forms of free money for people who are too lazy to have a job.
6. Increase international trade and those countries that impose a heavy tariff on our goods to their country, double their tariff upon entry here.
7. Absolutely, positively, no tuition to be charged at ALL public universities and colleges. All faculty are paid top dollar to ensure they will not deflect to a private college/university.
8. The Second Amendment is to be taken seriously. Those sissy Al Queda would rethink 9-11 if they knew that every person aboard those planes and everywhere is armed.
9. Transportation companies (i.e. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, et al) would be required to produce all their vehicles that are green. Failure to do so would result in fines in excess of their yearly gross income for each year they violate this. This will wean and curtail the United States from foreign oil and force the Queen of England off her throne to get a job.
10. Our forefathers came to this country for freedom . . . from the Crown, which is precisely what I would enforce.
11. Total elimination of sports programs in schools and to replace them with language training. They can continue their sports, but at their expense and at the fields that are open and free to them at that particular time. In other words, no more empty sports fields, baseball diamonds, et al., anywhere.
12. School uniforms are mandatory, as the kids are wearing clothes that make them look like they've taken a crap in their pants. This is personal disrespect and will NOT be tolerated. There will be no "school shootings" because the other kids are armed, too, and will gladly "take out" the shooter. Teachers will dress up and look respectful instead of wearing clothes that a farmer would wear in the barn. Failure to do so will cost them their teaching license, which is not appealable.
13. The corrections system would be overhauled to ensure that every prisoner will know that prison is not the place to make friends, study and earn a degree or rape other prisoners. They will know what the term "hard labor" stands for and they will do it daily with time out only to attend to sleeping, meals and personal hygiene. No weight rooms, no televison, no Internet AND, the best part, solitary confinement. Clean facilities (they do their own), food to sustain them (nope, no pizza) and church on Sunday mornings, evenings and Wednesday nights. When they're done with their sentence, they will be rehabilitated and productive members of society. If they reoffend, there's only one thing left: Lead poisoning. It means precisely what you think it means.
14. You want a tax cut? Forget it! You already paid nothing in taxes, now you get to pay 75 percent of your income, for the rest of your life, in taxes. You just shouldn't have complained and yes, you will be required to work, we'll make sure of that!

 

[Buckdodgers]

You sound like this man

Under your policy, the US military would do this to NYC

Naw!!! Under My Policy Id Tell Kim Jung This

YOU GET NO FOOD,MEDICINE,OIL OR ANY GOODS!!,,,You do just One thing stupid JUST ONE THING Mr Jung and youll regret it!

And Mr Jung Winds up doing this.

Theres my Responce

Oh shit!

 

[Cousin Vinny]

Reading the replies in this thread, I'm glad none of you respondents are the President of the U.S.! :Ohno: Whew!

I'll take a stab, being the megalomaniac that I am!
1) Roll back the tax cuts. This will reduce the Federal deficit, and hopefully result in a surplus or two to help reduce the deficit even further.
2) Engage in multilateralism in tackling serious problems erupting in various parts of the world. Cowboy diplomacy is dead. Even Bush, its main proponent, is abandoning it now.
3) Invest in Mexico and the Americas to reduce immigration issues. Building fences and enacting restrictive and punitive anti-immigration measures will not be effective in the long term.
4) Kiss a ton of babies. (Just to see if anyone was paying attention at this point!)
5) Reduce the military and business presence in Iraq considerably.

Well, I have a longer list and could go on forever... I'm glad I'm not having that job! It is truly an unenvious task, subject to withering criticism no matter what you do, and truly thankless at times.

Oh- Bush will forever occupy a place in the Presidential Hall of Shame along with dubious inductees such as Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Grover Cleveland, etc.

 

[Cousin Vinny]

Id would invade Iran by reinstate the Draft and make it harder for them to desert to canada by sticking undercover FBI agents at the border.If caught sneaking into canada you will be arrested and prositcuted.The Penalty is up to 20 years in federal prison without the possibilty of parole.

Again, you need to be reacquainted with the spacebar thingie on your keyboard. It's kind large-ish and very hard to miss.

Secondly, a draft? Unlikely to happen anytime soon! If it were instituted again, there will be calls for equality in the process. I don't think our political leadership is ready and willing to see their daughters die in wars just yet.

 

[Cousin Vinny]

4. Cut all lobbyist activities in Congress, as they're influencing how our legislators vote and their votes aren't doing their constituents any good.

Now, this is something I can agree on! Truly, Congress needs to rein in its lobbyist contigent. I feel that the ordinary voter and U.S. citizen has been disenfranchised from the political process now percolating daily in Congress and other hotspots in D.C. You want to know the true cost of disenfranchising the ordinary guy? They go elsewhere.

Where, you may ask? Why, the court system, a refuge where individual voices can be heard and acted upon with decisiveness. And the current Republican majority in Congress complain about activist judges?!? Well, the Republican majority is now reaping what they've sown in their 'country clubhouse' behavior.

Not only that, the whole process puts an incredible strain on the court system and would tend to destablize the political process a little bit. There need to be an equibrillium of sorts.

Senator McCain has been lobbying for election reform, and I hope he will eventually succeed in this noble goal in the near future and bring Congress back to the mainstream, back to the ordinary person.

 

[VamPyroX]

I would tell him to put blabbermouths into prison.

 

[Tousi]

Lol, well, I liked nbr 13: Prisoners will see a bar of soap in a very vastly different light.

 

[LuciaDisturbed]

This is a loaded question, so I will give you my views.

1. Cut the president's salary, as well as all cabinet members and all members of Congress to zero. This is now a volunteer position. If any member of any branch has been convicted of a felony, they will never be able to serve in any office. Cut the salaries of the Supreme Court, as well.
2. You want an abortion? You got it! Go get the guy that got your pregnant and we'll "fix" the two of you, collect your dna, blood samples and type, as well as any and all identification numbers you have (to prevent any possible reverse operations and to prevent you and your honey from adopting children), then we'll take your picture for reference. You have chosen not to be a parent, ever, and we'll guarantee it! You will be required to check in as often as deemed necessary to ensure that you haven't broken the law in doing this.
3. Bring back the barbed wire fences around the state hospitals for the criminally and mentally insane, and not let them out, not even for family visits.
4. Cut all lobbyist activities in Congress, as they're influencing how our legislators vote and their votes aren't doing their constituents any good.
5. Cut all social security, medicare, medicaid, welfare and all other forms of free money for people who are too lazy to have a job.
6. Increase international trade and those countries that impose a heavy tariff on our goods to their country, double their tariff upon entry here.
7. Absolutely, positively, no tuition to be charged at ALL public universities and colleges. All faculty are paid top dollar to ensure they will not deflect to a private college/university.
8. The Second Amendment is to be taken seriously. Those sissy Al Queda would rethink 9-11 if they knew that every person aboard those planes and everywhere is armed.
9. Transportation companies (i.e. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, et al) would be required to produce all their vehicles that are green. Failure to do so would result in fines in excess of their yearly gross income for each year they violate this. This will wean and curtail the United States from foreign oil and force the Queen of England off her throne to get a job.
10. Our forefathers came to this country for freedom . . . from the Crown, which is precisely what I would enforce.
11. Total elimination of sports programs in schools and to replace them with language training. They can continue their sports, but at their expense and at the fields that are open and free to them at that particular time. In other words, no more empty sports fields, baseball diamonds, et al., anywhere.
12. School uniforms are mandatory, as the kids are wearing clothes that make them look like they've taken a crap in their pants. This is personal disrespect and will NOT be tolerated. There will be no "school shootings" because the other kids are armed, too, and will gladly "take out" the shooter. Teachers will dress up and look respectful instead of wearing clothes that a farmer would wear in the barn. Failure to do so will cost them their teaching license, which is not appealable.
13. The corrections system would be overhauled to ensure that every prisoner will know that prison is not the place to make friends, study and earn a degree or rape other prisoners. They will know what the term "hard labor" stands for and they will do it daily with time out only to attend to sleeping, meals and personal hygiene. No weight rooms, no televison, no Internet AND, the best part, solitary confinement. Clean facilities (they do their own), food to sustain them (nope, no pizza) and church on Sunday mornings, evenings and Wednesday nights. When they're done with their sentence, they will be rehabilitated and productive members of society. If they reoffend, there's only one thing left: Lead poisoning. It means precisely what you think it means.
14. You want a tax cut? Forget it! You already paid nothing in taxes, now you get to pay 75 percent of your income, for the rest of your life, in taxes. You just shouldn't have complained and yes, you will be required to work, we'll make sure of that!

I would NEVER vote for you. You're too extreme.

 

[Buckdodgers]

This is a loaded question, so I will give you my views.

1. Cut the president's salary, as well as all cabinet members and all members of Congress to zero. This is now a volunteer position. If any member of any branch has been convicted of a felony, they will never be able to serve in any office. Cut the salaries of the Supreme Court, as well.
2. You want an abortion? You got it! Go get the guy that got your pregnant and we'll "fix" the two of you, collect your dna, blood samples and type, as well as any and all identification numbers you have (to prevent any possible reverse operations and to prevent you and your honey from adopting children), then we'll take your picture for reference. You have chosen not to be a parent, ever, and we'll guarantee it! You will be required to check in as often as deemed necessary to ensure that you haven't broken the law in doing this.
3. Bring back the barbed wire fences around the state hospitals for the criminally and mentally insane, and not let them out, not even for family visits.
4. Cut all lobbyist activities in Congress, as they're influencing how our legislators vote and their votes aren't doing their constituents any good.
5. Cut all social security, medicare, medicaid, welfare and all other forms of free money for people who are too lazy to have a job.
6. Increase international trade and those countries that impose a heavy tariff on our goods to their country, double their tariff upon entry here.
7. Absolutely, positively, no tuition to be charged at ALL public universities and colleges. All faculty are paid top dollar to ensure they will not deflect to a private college/university.
8. The Second Amendment is to be taken seriously. Those sissy Al Queda would rethink 9-11 if they knew that every person aboard those planes and everywhere is armed.
9. Transportation companies (i.e. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, et al) would be required to produce all their vehicles that are green. Failure to do so would result in fines in excess of their yearly gross income for each year they violate this. This will wean and curtail the United States from foreign oil and force the Queen of England off her throne to get a job.
10. Our forefathers came to this country for freedom . . . from the Crown, which is precisely what I would enforce.
11. Total elimination of sports programs in schools and to replace them with language training. They can continue their sports, but at their expense and at the fields that are open and free to them at that particular time. In other words, no more empty sports fields, baseball diamonds, et al., anywhere.
12. School uniforms are mandatory, as the kids are wearing clothes that make them look like they've taken a crap in their pants. This is personal disrespect and will NOT be tolerated. There will be no "school shootings" because the other kids are armed, too, and will gladly "take out" the shooter. Teachers will dress up and look respectful instead of wearing clothes that a farmer would wear in the barn. Failure to do so will cost them their teaching license, which is not appealable.
13. The corrections system would be overhauled to ensure that every prisoner will know that prison is not the place to make friends, study and earn a degree or rape other prisoners. They will know what the term "hard labor" stands for and they will do it daily with time out only to attend to sleeping, meals and personal hygiene. No weight rooms, no televison, no Internet AND, the best part, solitary confinement. Clean facilities (they do their own), food to sustain them (nope, no pizza) and church on Sunday mornings, evenings and Wednesday nights. When they're done with their sentence, they will be rehabilitated and productive members of society. If they reoffend, there's only one thing left: Lead poisoning. It means precisely what you think it means.
14. You want a tax cut? Forget it! You already paid nothing in taxes, now you get to pay 75 percent of your income, for the rest of your life, in taxes. You just shouldn't have complained and yes, you will be required to work, we'll make sure of that!

But Ill Vote For ya!

 

[pek1]

But Ill Vote For ya!

But we have to remember that Sen. McCain has been in since who knows when and, by all means he'd want "reform" if it meant that he could stay in office forever, like some other worthless legislators.