You have just been elected president of the U.S. What are the first three things you will do?

Question

this question has been asked before by someone else. I stole it. There's nothing wrong with stealing good ideas.
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IItrix: I said 3 things, not 8 things! There is so much to be done though, it's hard to hold it to 3.

Or 10 things. My first cabinet choice: IItrix.

Answer 1

1. Cut off all subsidies to the oil industry and get out of Iraq and the mideast. And, get off oil as much as humanly possible.
2. Raise taxes on the richest 1% to the rates they were in the 1950's.
3. illegalize big money and corporate money into the election system and Get rid of the military industrial complex lobbyists in Washington D.C
4. Train our soldiers to refurbish and rebuild our infrastructure such as bridges, roads and new schools and put them to work in our country.
5. Universalize Health Care.
6. Raise standards for education and cut class size. Put much more $$ into our education because if we don't, we are going to fall behind the rest of the world.
7. Have mandatory carbon emission caps and provide an infrastructure for all electric cars.
8. Tax consumption. The more luxury the item, the more it gets taxed.
9. Lower income taxes on the middle class and the poor to a much lower rate than it is now.
10. Lock my self in the White House because the greedy people and their evil henchmen will be wanting to kill me after all this.

Answer 2

Finalize the war and withdraw the troops.

Rescind 800 some odd slips that give Bush the right to not go by the law.

Rescind all of Bush's presidential orders!

have a bill introduced that would make the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 rescinded, and at the same time I would file am Amicus brief with the US Supreme Court regarding the Constitutionality of those two laws!

I would close the CIA torture camps, especially those not in this country!

I would ask for a full funding of all the needs of the VA Medical Centers!

I would take out of any law or bill tax cuts for the rich! They don't need a tax-cut and David Stockman already proved the Trickle down economics doesn't work! Bush has proved it twice!

Sorry, 3 is too little, and I was just getting on a roll.

Answer 3

It is a good question...If only politicians knew what they were gonna do we'd be ok. As for me...

1. Have all of the troops out of Iraq within 12 months, I may leave some near the border but none would be active inside of the country.

2. Stop all foreign aid in the form of money, we would donate food, clothing, medicine when needed, but no money for at least a decade.

3. All those troops who returned home would be given the task of patrolling our borders as backup for our border patrol agents, immigration would be put on hold until we had sorted out the issues we are currently having in the matter.

Answer 4

Good question
1: Get a stronger presence in Iraq also engage a large meeting of all the leaders and they are to be televised. They are to be sitting side by side and explaining their views and wants to one another and the world.

2: Being stronger on illegal aliens. They are to be deported to their country. Those that employ or house them knowingly will be fined. If those that employ them or house them are caught a second time they would serve some time in jail. Those illegal aliens that are caught a second time would risk never being able to never be able to enter the US legally. Also if their families help them and it can be proven, those family members can lose citizenship.

3: Start a plan to change Tax system. Change it to the Fair Tax.

Answer 5

1) Issue an executive order mandating that all federal, state, and local law enforcement will check the immigration status of every single person with whom they come in contact, and detain those who are found to be here illegally. I would then order ICE to start depiortation proceedings immediately against those detained.

2) Eliminate all federal programs and agencies which are in contradiction of the Tenth Amendment and the concept of federalism. The first ones to go would be the federal Dep't of Education, Dep't of HHS, and Dep't of Energy.

3) Issue a copy of Machiavelli's "The Prince" to all field officers currently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, and let them know that the philosophy found therein is henceforth to be considered official US policy.

Answer 6

1. apologize for the past and ensure everyone that the US is "Under New Management"

2. Maybe not bring our troops home immediately (unfortunately we started something that we have to finish) but work something out with the Iraqi people for nonviolence and meeting everyones needs.

3. Try to mold our government into something that secures the rights of all people and ensures that Americans have life, liberty and the persuit of happiness instead of what we have now which is restricting rights and making life more difficult and without privacy

And if i could have more

4. Improve foreign relations for all countries. For example work with countries such as mexico and so on in order to form a more stable economy so that they can make the same money in their country as in ours so they won't feel the need to come in order for their families to survive. In addition a guest worker program and fewer restrictions on visiting the US and other countries.

5. Make sure the rights available to one group, gender, sexual orientation, etc... are available to all. It is not the responsibility of the US government to restrict rights but instead to ensure that everyone has equal rights.

6. Set up a tax system where companies could get tax breaks for creating jobs in underprivileged areas and keeping jobs in the US instead of outsourcing to other countries.

7. Develop a system in order to help our environment - make it so that all gas stations must offer refills to hydrogen, or electric, or LP based automobiles as well. As well as push the development of these technologies in auto manufacturers

8. Develop a health care plan that will benefit everyone for free. It may not be fast but it will be effecient and will help keep people healthy and save lives.

9. JobsJobsJobsEducationEductionEducation

10. Meet all the famous people I've ever wanted to meet :)

Answer 7

1. Stop with all the "cowpoo" wars.
2. Leave the middle-east alone (they have no problems that concern anybody but themselves)
3. Do something about world hunger.
4. Do something about global warming.
5. Do something about recycling.
6. Make Oprah my advisor.
7. Revise movie rating system.
8. Reduce violence in media.
9. Stop the "cowpoo" in the media.
10. Fair judgment.


Enough?? This is only off the top of my head!!! I could go on till tomorrow!!!

Answer 8

First I would do what Thompson suggested in the Rep debate. Organizing state govts in the 18 regions of Iraq and setting up local police forces and National Gaurd forces. This way, we may take less time in Iraq.

Second, I would decrease the budget and spending and keeping the tax cuts. Romney said that we should stop overfeeding the govt, and he is right.

Third, I would stop the lay offs of Air Force servicemen and women. Why the Air force is laying off so many is beyond me, and its time to do something about it.

Answer 9

1. Withdraw the troops from Iraq and redeploy them to Kuwait tomorrow morning. If the violence increases sharply, redeploy if the troops can be of practical assistance to Iraqi security forces..

2. Round up Bush Cheney & Co, confiscate all of their personal and family's assets and money, and send them to the Guantanamo Bay facility as a serious national security risk, because they vengeful evil sociopaths who have no sense of right and wrong.

3. Go on a world-wide diplomatic mission to try and "Mend BRIDGES" with all of America's former friends and allies, and America's enemies to try and "build bridges" in a common effort to stamp out terrorism.

Answer 10

1) Pump more troops into Iraq so we can end the war (in victory, not defeat) and get our troops home.

2) Put out an official statement saying that "publicly calling for defeat and/or aiding our enemies by negotiating with them" will be treason.

3) Improve relations with non-socialist European and Latin American nations.