Ultimate question ....(VANITY)

February 12, 2003 | Hildy

[Hildy]

I bet this thread doesn't last too long, but here's the question: If you were President for ONE day and could just do ONE thing, what would it be? Here's mine...I would take all our troops out of all the places around the world that have voiced their hatred towards us. (Which is basically everywhere our troops are). I'd put as many as needed around the Israeli border and the rest around our border. That's it. How about you?

[JIM O]

I would call up Sandy Heller from high school and say " I bet you went out with me when I asked you, Don't you"

[ricpic]

Repeal the 16th amendment.

[lawgirl]

ROFLMAO--yeah "look at me now sucker!!!!!" that would be great too!

[b4its2late]

I'd sign an executive order allowing assassinations of foreign leaders and allowing arrests of foreign diplomats and detaining them as enemy combatants.

[outlawcam]

I notice there are quite a few on here who are either misunderstanding the question, or actually believe the President has far more authority than he has. Abolish the IRS? Great goal... but that's a legislative function, and legislative power rests solely with Congress.

There I go being an old stick-in-the-mud again. :(

[katnip]

We know, we know... it's fun imagining though..

[kpp_kpp]

we are certainly disadvantaged in the UN with the EU having how many voices? the US should get 50 ambassadors and 50 votes.

disolving it would be better but why not have a little fun with it first - its not like it is relavent.

[Living Free in NH]

"I'd sit back in my big 'ole chair in the Oval Office and get some intern to give me head"

Billy Jeff Clinton

[thegreatbeast]

Re-value the dollar so that a loaf of bread would cost 10 cents. A new quality car $2000. Average wage in US= ??? It would make numbers real again.
A flat, inescapable sales tax of 2 or 3%. Enough to provide for the public defense and one or two other things. No exceptions. No loopholes.
We don't want the Armed Services working in this country. You don't want to habituate soldiers to controlling their fellow citizens. Hire a Border Patrol sufficient to control our borders. Designate English as the one official language of the US. Freeze all immigration to we vett every single foreigner presently in this country. Tie immigration quotas to a low unemployment rate.
Get the federal government out of the education business. Cut Congressional & White House staffs by at least 75%.
Establish a loser pays system in many areas of the law. Institute heavy penalties for the filing of nuisance suits or suits based on simple fancy. Abolish double jeopardy by disallowing civil suits that follow criminal suits we don't like the verdicts of.
Resolve to pare down all laws by some 95%. After all, ten commandments pretty much cover everything. The law should be simple and understandable.
That would be a good day.

[Prof Engineer]

Look into the Roswell files to see if anything but dust is in there.

[LibWhacker]

You got my vote.

[LibWhacker]

Did I mention guns? No guns or ammo would be illegal. No permits to carry would be required. It'd be the first executive order I would sign.

[OldFriend]

Please go back to contemplating your navel and save space on FR for important news.

[MEGoody]

If I were president for one day, I'd do everything in my power to save unborn babies.

[HumanaeVitae]

Hangar 51. 'Nuff said.

[Delbert]

I would destroy Mecca, Medina and the Mosque on the Dome of the Rock.

[laredo44]

Abolish the Departments of Education and Energy, repeal the income tax, and mandate all government business at all levels be conducted in English.

[GeekDejure]

Sounds like just another normal, boring 100,00 hour day, eh?

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[Sloth]

National Retail Sales Tax.

[Samwise]

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