If you were president of the U.S.A., What are some things you would aim to accomplish?

Question

It is nearly 2007, you find yourself inexplicably placed in the position of President of the United States of America. What do you do about the present day issues? Anything new you'd like to bring onto the drawing board? How would you deal with the media? Ultimately, do you think you would be a good president, and why?

Answer 1

1. Pardon the 2 agents that shot the drug dealer and got put in jail.
2. Start rounding up all illegals and make them build the wall before deportation
3. drop 100,000 armed convicts in Iraq with carte blanche to kill and rape until the country behaves
4. Close Gitmo, put all the prisoners into sealand containers and sink them in the Atlantic

Answer 2

Hey scruffy...at least you are honest!

What would I do? Now this is an interesting question because I have always wanted to be the President. I think the first thing to be done is to make sure that Congress and the People understand the President's job. Congress needs to understand that the people are the most important aspect of their job. I would investigate all of congress and all government offices using whatever resources I had to use (outside firms, government firms, military, whatever) to find waste, to streamline operations, and to save hundreds of millions of dollars. Government waste MUST end. The people must be shown that the ELECTED position of President can be trusted again. Any government official found to be doing anything illegal will be prosecuted federally by the FBI or other appropriate agency. The Attorney General will show no remorse to these offenders.
Secondly, I would introduce legislation to amend the constitution doing away with the Electoral College as is and making it either a representative institution (where, instead of getting all the votes for a state by getting 50.01% of the people's votes, it would be possible to split votes 50/50 based on the electorates wishes!) or go back to the idea of direct election of the President (we count all the votes anyways!)
Third would be to refocus the energies of congress and government on domestic issues. We currently worry to much about the rest of the world while we sit here at seemingly refuse to admit the USA has problems. I would direct congress and the states to begin to address poverty, welfare reform, health care, violence, crime, and the economy. I would commission a study to evaluate and give suggestions in each of the above areas including researchers, general population, and experts.
Fourth would be a total overhaul of the federal governments role in the education process. Education used to be exclusively a local/state issue until the Great Depression when compulsory education and federal interference began to weaken the education system. Now, with NCLB, the education system is becoming more weak and less effective. I would repeal NCLB and then sit down with top educators across the land and work out something that is operable and can truly improve education in America.
Fifth would be to decrease our reliance on foreign oil by developing new sources of domestic oil and new sources of viable energy that is cost efficient and practical.
Lastly, I would revamp our foreign policy and reevaluate how we help other nations financially, militarily, and through humanitarian aid. I would cut off aid to countries not deserving or who are terrorist supporters, continue aid to those who deserve it, and send aid to those who need it. However, I would not send more than is needed and would hesitate to interfere in others political issues. I would not invade a sovereign nation without having a better reason than I thought they had WMD or thought they had anything. i would require more proof than stupid intelligence.

Being president is not easy because there is pressure from every side. Overcoming those pressures is necessary and keeping from being bought by idiots who want only for themselves and could care less about the common people. If only we could restore sanity and take away greed, perhaps we would be able to restore America to its greatest point in time.

Answer 3

First I would seek advise from Congress. My polices in the middle east would be different. I would talk to my enemies. No talk equals no prospect of peace. I would attempt to solve some of the social problems such as health care, affordable housing, education and job training. Our education system is a mess. We are teaching our kids to take a test. That will not help them be successful in life. I would not belong to one political party as both have good ideas. Most of all I would not infringe on the peoples rights and freedoms. Taxation would be fair. Contracts with my administration would be an open book for all tax payers to easy access and understand. Cut out the waste and we can pay for many good programs. College education or trade school would be free to all. As long as the achieve and maintain the GPA required. There would be stem cell research. There would be no death penalty. We would strive to achieve the goal of the four words above the entrance to the Supreme Court. "Equal justice under law". We would go back to the basics. Nothing hard just the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We would be a nation of the people by the people and for the people.

Answer 4

1. Standardize the elections in all states.
2. Make Sectary of State and elected position. NOT a political position as it is suppose to be.
3. Require all citizen to vote or be fined.
4. Term limits for Senators and Congressman.
5. Make spending pay as you go.
6. Withdraw from Iraq withing 3 months.
7.Raise the minimum wage to what ever the Federal government considers poverty level, with cost of living .
8 Health Care system much like Canada.for all citizens.
9.Make all FDA positions Pharmacist or PhD in pharmaceutical medicine.
10. Secure the FCC from job description of Politics.
11. Enforce immigration laws. Deport and secure the borders. Fines to start then jail terms to employers.
12. Require all money received from Medicare deductions be secured in Medicare fiduciary account and not available for loans.
13. Stop privatizing any part of war. Food services etc.
14. War only if we are attacked. With 61% vote from Congress.
15 War with out being attacked voted on by the voters.
16. Make it illegal to privatize any infrastructure of the people.
17. All citizens required to do public service before or after college if. As in armed services, public service medical field, etc.with appropriate compensation.Service for College.
18 Uniform driver license. Make it a federal license.
19. Medicine and like science licenses Federal.
20 All elections paid for by taxes with defined limits.
21.MOST important last two: Do what ever it takes to get energy dependent in 10 years while putting people to work on what we have to do to save the planet.
22. Deal with the World as a friend not a bully.
23. Break up the Media conglomerates. Allow one company to own either a paper or TV in a city also several radio stations. Because we need diversity.
Good President: I would hope and pray what I did would insure the future of the young people now in school.

Answer 5

Strengthen security of our borders, cities, counties and States (including improving transportation security of our roads, railways, air and shipping industries). Promote the military and police departments by providing better pay, training, and opportunities. Increase funding for educating all our citizens (fix the old buildings, pay teachers higher salaries, put the education of our children as a number one priority). Deal with the health care system and all its problems to make sure all our citizens receive basic medical care (including mental health care). Revamp the tax system (it's a total mess). Encourage and support American ingenuity. We need people who create new technology and new products (inventors, scientists, etc.).

I don't think I'd make a great President because I've never been blessed with that charisma and charm many Presidents have (e.g., Kennedy, Clinton, Reagan). My voice has a Midwestern whine to it (lol)... and I'm not a Rhodes Scholar (just a community college grad). :-)

Answer 6

First,I'd need to do away with Congress,they are the reason the U.S.is so far in debt.
Second,repeal all the laws that are unconstitutional (cities,counties and states would have to do the same).
Set the punishment to fit the crime.
Fair taxes everyone gets the same amount of earnings tax free,same personal exemptions,same tax breaks or credits.
Make some traffic laws common across the nation.
Make text book publishers publish history books that are right,geography books that give the right names to a country on the right Continent,and the 50 individual sates are not countries.
Let the people over 18 decide for themselves if they want to wear seat belts or not.

Answer 7

I love this question...
1. Free health care to all. Universal Health care!!
2. Improve the education level of Pre K -12th grade in all states.
3. Raise the minimum wage in all states.
4. Free housing for teachers in good standings
5. Raise the salaries of teachers.

Increasing the education level of the masses will bring a richer country.

Answer 8

1. Make America more independent from the world again. Stop buying products from China. Start investing every dollar in education and technology and make America a country of production power not of buying power. We need to be leading not following.
2. MAKE EVERY POLITICAL POSITION AN ELECTED ONE, with a pre-req psych-exam and polygraph. NO MORE 2 PARTY PROBLEMS, Hell have 10 CREDITABLE Parties...
3. Re-vamp the voting system, make it easier, more convenient and give incentives to the public for voting and civic duties.
4. Send Mooney back to Korea and take his money beforehand, then send Wal-Mart to China and monopolize their economy.
5. Provide European (that is Western European) style health care and social security.
6. Push more money and aid into the UN infrastructure and global environmental awareness.
7. Stop mixing God and State (DANG IT MOONEY).
8. Start exporting our EDUCATED citizens (seems to work for other countries - hell, look at Texas).
9. Tax the hell out of companies that want to take their customer service to India.
10. Grow food for the world, but use it to defeat N. Korea (DANG IT MOONEY, BUSH & KIM JONG), unstable African Countries, and the Middle East, make the immigrants leave after being taxed.
11. Violent criminals go back to chain gangs... Non-violent pay fines and community service.

Answer 9

1. Allow all states to Standardize their own elections.
2. Close the State Department.
3. Require all citizens to perform some military or social service (5 years) before they could be allowed to vote. No service = no voting.
4. Eliminate all Senators & CongressPersons.
5. Make spending pay as you go unless the spending is for me.
6. Destroy Iran and let the Iraqis decide on how they might like to proceed. As our friend or as our enemy.
7.Eliminate the minimum wage. You will be paid what you are worth.
8 Eliminate Government based Health Care system. The Canadians are already coming here for their health care. Make our system pay as you go.
9.Close the FDA.
10. Close the FCC.
11. Enforce immigration laws. Shoot illegals on sight.
12. Eliminate Medicare. (And Social Security and all the other non-functional social boon-doggles.)
13. Privatizing the entire war. (Hire France to go clean up the mess.)
14. Totally destroy all our enemies. Starting with internal parasites.
15 Attack anyone who declares themselves our enemy. Waiting to be attacked is dead persons logic.
16. Privatize all public infrastructure. Government is a waste of money. allowing government to run our lives is a waste of time and money.
17. All citizens required to do public service before or after college. (oops said that above.)
18 All liberals must work in China.
19 All Liberals must pass a college level world history class before being allowed to speak in public.
20 All elections paid for by Liberals with no spending limits.
21. MOST important: Drill where ever there is oil. And send Al Gore on a global warming fact checking mission. (Thats the last we'll see of that idiot! He couldn't find a fact if it hit him in the face!
22. Deal with the World as a bully. We tried being friends and we got 911 and a bunch of whinny Liberals as our reward. It's time to kick ***!
23. Force all Media outlets to be fair and balanced.

Answer 10

Restore the Federal Government to its size, scope and role as mandated in the US Constitution. If it was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it's good enough for us.