[Other] What would you do if you was in power?

[Atomic Fiend]

*Coat of arms: a giant pink T-Rex eating a hut, with lazers and sharks and stuff

Barney, the hungry Dinosaur?

 

[Qre:us]

I was go buck on yo ass!

 

[Walking Tourist]

End the wars.
Get rid of our weapons of mass destruction.
Get bullet trains and really good mass transit.
Build more bike paths, to connect cities to one another for people who prefer to walk or cycle.
Stop bailing out big companies (GM, AIG, etc.)
Send fewer people to prison, not more. It's a waste of resources.
Make white collar criminals get jobs that don't allow them access to money and require them to pay restitution and do community service and have probation officers whose former career was "bill collector."
Decriminalize drugs and provide more and better drug treatment programs to addicts.
Provide health insurance for everyone (the United States is really backward in this area, but that's not a surprise because we don't even use the metric system except in scientific fields).
Solar and wind energy for all public buildings.
Get drunk drivers off the road.
Job retraining for anyone who needs it.
Better education: foreign languages, art, music, practical skills (balance checkbook, minor home repairs, etc.)
End the war on drugs!
Close Guantanamo!
No more barbaric stuff (torture, extraordinary rendition)
Oh, and the smoking thing that's come up a few times.
Well-ventilated smoking rooms in public places. It seems more fair to smokers and nonsmokers alike. I'm very allergic but don't object, just as long as I don't have to smell it and become congested and then sleepy from the "nondrowsy" allergy pill.

 

[Unique]

+100

I love your ideas regarding education especially, I have always hated one size fits all education, it is bullshit and produces graduates without any real world skills.

Cheers, I'm a kinesthetic learner myself which is the least developed style of learning in schools

 

[BerberElla]

If I was in power I would panic and hit the red button as soon as someone (another country) emotionally upset me. j/k......I think.

No seriously I wouldn't want to be in power, if I got it for some strange reason I would try to give it away since I'm too pessimistic to believe that any idealistic change I attempted to influence would even work.

The part that frightens me, is more that I can see myself being quite a tyrant trying to get people to do as I think they should in order to create a utopia.

Ie don't even get me started about what I would do trying to get countries that treat women like dirt, or still engage in slavery, or racism, or corruption in government to change their ways.

So all in all it's a bloody good thing I have no wish to be in power.

 

[Saslou]

If I was in power I would panic and hit the red button as soon as someone (another country) emotionally upset me. j/k......I think.

No seriously I wouldn't want to be in power, if I got it for some strange reason I would try to give it away since I'm too pessimistic to believe that any idealistic change I attempted to influence would even work.

The part that frightens me, is more that I can see myself being quite a tyrant trying to get people to do as I think they should in order to create a utopia.

Ie don't even get me started about what I would do trying to get countries that treat women like dirt, or still engage in slavery, or racism, or corruption in government to change their ways.

So all in all it's a bloody good thing I have no wish to be in power.

lmao .. Wow. I do understand where you are coming from.
Pi**ed off + emotions = Your all going to die (me included).
The nice side of me would be trying to accomplish some kind of utopia.
The other side well i would be judge, jury and executioner.

I think it might be best to leave it up to someone else. I am still willing to be second in command though. (i need my power trip)

 

[BerberElla]

lmao .. Wow. I do understand where you are coming from.
Pi**ed off + emotions = Your all going to die (me included).
The nice side of me would be trying to accomplish some kind of utopia.
The other side well i would be judge, jury and executioner.

I think it might be best to leave it up to someone else. I am still willing to be second in command though. (i need my power trip)

Haha totally. I have a side of me that no one really needs to see, the judge jury and executioner in me is held back on a short leash.

I'm with you on the second in command thing, that I could handle. It would have to be with a really hot rational type though. ornstar:

 

[Saslou]

It would have to be with a really hot rational type though. ornstar:

Most definitely . All work and no play, hehe

 

[raz]

If I were in power...

 

[Eiddy]

Right on Raz, super hot uniforms in pecking order..

 

[Halla74]

Well, as an eNFJ, I'm probably going to take over the joint sooner or later (or at least stage an impressive coup), so here's what I'd do:

*Take power
*Mandate a parade in my honor
*Mandate another parade in my honor
*Chocolate bunnies for all
*Instate a national uniform that looks incredibly cool and saves everyone money
*Free movies and popcorn every Friday night
*Abs/Buns of Steel participation twice a week
*Bad people getting kicked in the shins by little kids in the town square
*Drag racing at the strip for elder care dollars
*Motto: "That's right, I said it. Stop your crying!"
*Coat of arms: a giant pink T-Rex eating a hut, with lazers and sharks and stuff

Oooooo! Ooooo!!! May I pleeeeeeaze be your Deputy Viceroy? Oh pleeease, oh pleeease. I'll carry a huge boombox blasting your national anthem wherever you go and wear gold teeth when making all public service announcements on television. I'll also run the women's college volleyball program free of charge.

 

[Halla74]

I'd invest all of my country's technology into building a Hyper Mega Death Ray (Godbless you Buzz Lightyear), and aiming it at my greatest enemy and rival.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot. For centuries it has mocked my ancestors, I will blast that evil thing into next century.

Kill that bastard spot of the devil! Put up a PayPal link now, we will collect the funds from all the world to slay this nefarious demon!!! :horor:

 

[Jeffster]

The president doesn't have the power to do most of the things listed in these responses.

If I were dropped into the presidency today, I would:

Reverse all of Obama's executive orders

Fire at least 90 percent of the executive staff, as well as most of the cabinet (there's nothing in the Constitution that says you have to have all these secretaries of various departments.)

Cancel the nomination of Sotomayor and nominate Judge Judy for Supreme Court.

Have no spokesperson or "press secretary." The press is gonna make up their stories as usual anyway, might as well not give them any more ammunition.

No state of the union speeches. My "state of the union" would be a short, written document, delivered to the Congress once a year as required by the Constitution.

Veto EVERYTHING this Congress sent me

Star in "Who Wants to Marry the President?" dating tv show to select my wife.

My short-term goal would be to achieve single digits in approval rating. Bush was a pansy, he only got it down to the 20's, I know I can beat that!

Most likely, because of the long-term federal government shutdown caused by my vetoing of all appropriations bills, I would be the first president removed from office, so I see it going something like this:

Filibuster my own impeachment trial with the longest, rambling, incoherent speech ever given in the history of mankind.

Hire someone to set up the most elaborate maze of booby-traps ever in the White House, so that when I'm removed from office, security can't get to me and force me out. When that one, lone, brave warrior finally manages to get past the array of deadly defenses and reach me in the oval office, rest assured I will be waiting.

With a mayonnaise gun.

 

[Saslou]

I wanted to hire one of these outfits and surprise a friend on their birthday in their workplace. Shame he got fired. lol.





Jeffster.

I know the president doesn't actually get to make these big decisions, they are left to the bilderbergs or the Rockerfellers, blah blah blah. (love a conspiracy)
Love the idea for the TV dating show though.

 

[Walking Tourist]

It would be much more entertaining if you just randomly vetoed stuff. Just sort of pick three bills out of the stack, while your eyes are shut, and veto them.
Vetoing everything would get to be way too predictable and boring.

Veto EVERYTHING this Congress sent me

 

[Saslou]

Vetoing everything would get to be way too predictable and boring.

I like your thinking.

 

[Amira]

Jeffster, that is seriously one of the best plans ever! Love it.

 

[ceecee]

I'd change the thread titles was to were.

It took me two days to open this thread because of it.

 

[Domino]

I like Raz's idea. Storm troopers are hot.

SH - Barney doesn't' appreciate your dismissive tone!

Oooooo! Ooooo!!! May I pleeeeeeaze be your Deputy Viceroy? Oh pleeease, oh pleeease. I'll carry a huge boombox blasting your national anthem wherever you go and wear gold teeth when making all public service announcements on television. I'll also run the women's college volleyball program free of charge.

ROFL!!!! You are so hired!!

 

[iwakar]

I'd assemble a committee of intelligent minds of various MBTI inclinations and brainstorm on how to "fix sh*t."