Posted on 07/20/2008 1:17:03 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
What would you do if you had the bully pulpit? What policies would you promote. What are the best ways to preserve the US and make the world a better place for our children? This is obviously a vanity, but there is a wide range of opinion represented here and clearly not enough vision is coming out of our elected government. What would you do?
I’d send Congress home. Lock the doors, depart all illegals, stop immigration for a decade or so and declare myself king.
I would create a tax to “save the planet” that would allow people to continue doing what they are already doing ONLY if they send ME a wad of cash every month. Oh crap! I think Algore already thought of that. Nevermind.
I’d make my old pal Trashcan man Secretary of Defense, and send him to Iran...
MUAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
All Industrial and Energy Generating factories would be moved to orbit by the year 2020.
An Apollo like program with the resources of the above mentioned countries would insure that the Earth could support its population without the degradation of our environment. We would mine the Moon, explore the planets and begin our Trek to the Stars!
Executive order: No federal employee may be paid more than the equivalent service pay for an active duty member of the armed forces. No federal employee may enjoy benefits in excess equivalent services members.
I’d appoint Duncan Hunter as VP and then resign. Hunter would do a much better job than I could.
1) Not try to find excuses to stay in Iraq, but do everythig in my power to bring it to a close with just enough troops to assist training of Iraqi troops and forces.
2) Finish off Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
3) Form long term strategies to combat terrorism. Emphasize economic aspects along with ideological aspects of roots of Terrorism.
4) Negotiate peace with Iran and mediate peace between Iran and Isreal and hope to get Iran to ask Hezbollah and other Militias in Iraq to disarm. For giving up Nuclear program and support of terrorist organization, offer Iran Security and Trade and peace with Isreal.
5) Figure out strategies to strengthen Dollar. If the choice is between fighting inflation or fighting recession, fight inflation first.
6) Reach out to all the allies or possible allies in the world to make them partners in global endeavor and get away from “you are with us or against us” nonsense. Project more humble and freindly image of US, rather than cold blooded mean bully.
7) Fight to death on drilling. Taking the cost of Oil out is the ONLY way now to maintain contuning GROWTH of economy. Cutting taxes are soon to violate law of diminishing returns.
8) Treat Education as NATIONAL SECURITY issue. Just like we are unafraid to spend trillions on trumped up wars, we should be unafraid to engage in whatever spending is necessary to make sure we have the BEST education system from top to bottom. Open the gates for hardworking smart and intelligent people and redirect the global brain-drain back in the direction of US.
9) Cut out waste and install policies that catch waste in Federal Spending. Make National Debt my Holy Grail and hammer it day and night till people fear that more than they fear loss of job or anything else. Define it as root cause of ALL our money troubles.
10) I am sick of hearing about how Military projects that over-run cost. Hundreds of Billion every year. Time to put an end to that wastage too.
11) Take the savings from Military wastage and invest in BEST weapon on face of the Earth - The American Soldier. All our fancy submarines and stealth bombers are WORTHLESS in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ordinary soliders have to win the WOT. Invest in them. Recruit, Train and Reward the deadliest force every assembled.
12) Be open to all possibilites with respect to Healthcare reform, including going to battle with lawyers and drug companies. Cost needs to be managed and those two industries are the primary reason everything is expensive.
13) Get out of funding stupid projects like Ethanol.
14) Give all the necessary incentives to first introduce Electric and Flex Fuel Cars and then lay the ground work for CHEAPER ELECTRICITY. Educate people on how Oil and Electricity are TWO DIFFERENT issues.
15) Declare Jihad on National Debt. Be prepare to be assasinated by agents of Central bankers. Issue Hard Currency backed by Gold or other commodities and stop incurring further debt from Central Bankers and permanently enslaving US population.
16) Stay out of the way of Entrepreuners and Capitalists. However, INCREASE regulations where necessary so we don’t encount more MULTI-TRILLION-DOLLAR Ponze schemes as created by Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae.
17) Be sneaky about immigration reform and at first only focus on TOUGH penalties for EMPLOYERS who hire illegals. That alone can reverse the tide.
18) Not take any NEW liabilities for Government and try to get away from the ones that Bush and others have taken. Like 30 trillion dollars for providing the drugs in future. Its a STUPID program and take advantage of BUSH’s unpopularity, and promise MORE as long as we can SCRAP this current liability and then BREAK the promise and risk Presidency.
19) Use the example of even Socialist Regimes in Europe that allow investments in PERSONAL ACCOUNTS for retirement and try to fix the retirement/SS problem in future.
20) Improve race relations.
That’s a start.......
1)Outlaw Socialism
2)Arrest Dems and media for treason
3)Liberate Iran through various means
4)Declare the Imperial Republic... (ok this is the moment hubris kicks in...)
I would hold a press conference, list off my executive orders detailing drilling for oil, revamping nuclear energy, and .
Tell the press they have five minutes to evacuate the building.
When they protest, point to their words calling me a tyrant and say that I’m giving them what they asked for.
Laugh all the way to the bank.
Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments for starters...
Read the Constitution over and over so that I would know EXACTLY what jobs the 3 branches of governement are responsible for. Then start working on reversing all the unconstitutional government programs, bureaucracies, etc.
1) Destroy Mecca.
2) Confiscate all property from those who voted to give somebody else’s money to somebody else (usualy themselves).
3) Eliminate all Federal agencies and departments except for the pentagon.
4) Limit the power of Federal courts to only being able to settle disputes between states.
5) Void all Federal laws since Woodrow Wilsons Administration.
You forgot the shows of power: chainsaw a redwood tree on live TV and flamethrower a Prius.
Then send the bill to the Dems.
*evil!*
Mobilize the Country for War as we did in WW2
Declare WAR on all terror sponsoring countries
Draft, Rationing ..... Give Iran a few hours to evacuate their 10 biggest cities and then I’d annihilate one and continue until islam pulls its head out of its as$
Build the stinking fence in 6 stinking months.
Build NUKEreactors, windmills and drill in that stupid wasteland in Alaska
Start deporting illegals and pay the states 1k each.
Arrest all mayors of Sanctuary Cities
NO free trade unless its Fair Trade.
Start up industry in this country again under a wartime footing where the Government has the right to take over or start up one if needed as in WW2.
Stop imports that threaten our industries.
Tell Toyota and Honda to go sell their cars someplace else. We don’t need help building cars
a tax of 100000 dollars on all abortions
stop all spending on Aids/Hiv, don’t stick it in the butt.
Send kids to school 6 days a week, 11 months a year and have ‘em finish HS by 15.
and a couple of other hundred thangs oh and...........
Drop Kick obambi’s homosexual cocaineSMOKING Larry Sinclair -ized butt back to Kenya.
Mobilize theMilitary and surround the Congressional buildings and offices.
Give every member of the Congress 10 minutes to leave their offices and go home to their home states at their own expense.
Arrest Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, and all other Democratic Committee Chairmen and try them for Treason.
As an after thought to this whole mess. Is it any wonder that the Washington Big shots don’t want to truly represent their constituents when they get themselves a blank check to spend the taxpayers money and bank their own.
I’d leave Washington the minute the inauguration was done and never come back, the weather there sucks. Then I’d swear at every press conference because I think we’ve gotten too wussy about language. And I’d veto everything because we have too damn many laws already. This would pretty much guarantee impeachment before the 1st year was done.
“All department heads, regional directors, and comparable supervisors of Grade 12 and above are hereby notified to prepare detailed reports of their hiring practices, their office conduct standards, and all pertinent information. This information is NOT to be copied from the Procedural Manual. They are instructed to prepare interim personnel evaluations of all employees under their supervision. Specific benchmarks are required in these evaluations: 1) An explanation of the employee’s duties; 2) Reasons for hiring each employee; and 3) How the office would operate in the absence of that employee.
“Each Department Director will then prepare a resignation for themselves effective thirty days from this date. This is not optional.
“They shall also prepare a detailed report of their own office responsibilities, their performance records in that office, and their dates of service. Each of these Department Directors and Regional Officers shall also be prepared to come to the White House and present any reasons why they should be allowed to continue in their current positions.
“If these reasons are not compelling, or if the President is not satisfied with the reasons presented, the official’s resignation will be accepted at that time. Each resigned official will have a period of 30 days to clear out their desks, turn in any keys and security badges, and leave the building.
“All those employees who might be let go as a result of this conference will be assisted in the finding of comparable employment in the private sector. All positions emptied by this action will be eliminated permanently.”
Naturally, a lot of these bureaucrats would want to whine a lot. That is to be expected.
I would audit every government office with auditors I had personally approved whom I knew could perform this duty without being bribed or otherwise compromised by crooked bureaucrats. The results of these audits would go a long way toward streamlining government.
I would eliminate the Departments of HEW and Environmental Protection Agency, for starters. Essential personnel (if any) in these departments could be given lateral transfers to other Departments in which comparable work and pay was available.
I would instruct the House of Representatives to present me with a workable income-tax revision that reduced the tax burden across the board, and to begin the transition to a flat tax. And, while I was at it here, I would find a way to privatize Social Security in this generation.
I would seal the borders, North and South, and instruct all ICE agents to begin enforcing the letter of the law. I would prosecute businesses that encouraged the hiring of criminal trespassers (illegal aliens), and any deportees would be taken from the U.S. border to the southern border of Mexico before letting them off the buses. (What’s the use of dumping them in Tijuana or Juarez? They just cross again that afternoon.)
I would clean house like a madwoman in the CIA and the FBI, removing every last official, agent, operative, and secretary who was hired during the tenure of Boy Clinton, and these moles would be replaced by proven patriots.
Then, if I had any time left after all this, I would order Christmas cards for the White House that showed a Nativity Scene. The word “Christmas” would be prominent on these cards, and there would be no “inoffensive” card for people of “other faiths.”
You have my vote. That G@d D@mn traitor should be sent to jail with no “Get outta Jail Card till 2099!
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