If you were president, or prime minister, or warlord, or whatever Options

[DoomedOne]

I figure everybody gets ideas on what they would try to implement if they got to be the big main dude. Balances of Power aside, what main laws and projects would you implement or at least try to implement.

If I were President, I'd be elected on Friday, assassinated on Saturday, buried on Sunday. Couldn't resist. Anyway, firstly I hate my country's budget. I would make our military budget 1/10th what it is currently and focus most of that money on improving technology and training making instead of recruitment, keeping our aircraft carriers running on securing oil fields. I would put more money into education and being resubsidizing college to help expand the middle class in this country. I would spend a ton of money on technology development to help reduce green gas emission. I would cut the FBI budget in half, and cut the CIA and NSA out of the picture. Furthermore, because global warming will be in full swing populaces around the globe will need to be relocated constantly. A lot of money will have to go into that. It's okay though, if the military budget was cut we'd have the money. Also, public transportation would get a lot of money, too.

I would completely reformat our foreign policy so we have to respect sovereignty. Everything about Foreign Policy will change, especially how we trade with people. I would put a trade embargo on all nations that did not have living-wage laws. I would up our own minimum wage ot a living one. I would invest in study abroad programs because the best way to end racial/regional ignorance (which feeds support of wars in foreign countries) is to justg force people to deal with all types of people all the time.

90% of all undeveloped land would be declared untouchable national forests. Polution laws would go into effect far sgtricter than any we've seen before, pesticides would become illegal as well as synthetic nitrogen and other environmentally damaging addatives. Subsidies would be given to companies that implemented environmentally friendly technology and sold environmentally friendly products. Magnet trains and electric buses would slowly replace cars, etc...

NAFTA would be completely disbanded and rewritten in corrodination with the workers and environmental activists this time around. And if I really could, I'd disband company farms and help family farms replace them.

[Priest of Sithis]

Presidentiality or whatever you want to call it, is a troublesome thing.

Here are a few things I've thought about that humanity has lost in this day and age:
1)resiliency
2)closeness
3)dependency
4)loyalty, to some extent
5)freedom

These (objects) are what we could regain if an Anarchist State was achieved. However, I am no martyr or activist, simply an observer, and plus the Anarchist State is a paradox. Anyways, humanity is no longer the glorious success of reproduction, it is the gunk that stinks to the bottom of subway cars.

(I have very little faith in our Race)

[Pisces]

Presidentiality or whatever you want to call it, is a troublesome thing.

Here are a few things I've thought about that humanity has lost in this day and age:
1)resiliency
2)closeness
3)dependency
4)loyalty, to some extent
5)freedom

These (objects) are what we could regain if an Anarchist State was achieved. However, I am no martyr or activist, simply an observer, and plus the Anarchist State is a paradox. Anyways, humanity is no longer the glorious success of reproduction, it is the gunk that stinks to the bottom of subway cars.

(I have very little faith in our Race)

I also have little faith in our race, if we can't even feed ourselves when we have the food then we aren't exactly advanced and we still haven't escaped our basic animal instincts, philosophy my boat, sheep have more civil thoughts. But as for your list, anarchism is just tyrany and I haven't seen a good arguement for tyrany yet. Resilience has changed in its manor, don't forget how long people live these days in the developed world. Closeness, I think your ideals about a anarchial state is just ideals, I think you would find that people aren't anywhere near as close as you believe. Depedency, well, what do you call specialisation, or do you mean we have lost the ability to be helpless. Loyality, another thing where reality isn't the same as the ideal. Freedom, the only freedom we have lost is the freedom to use land, the amount of freedom in land use is obviously linked to how many people are using that freedom, in an anarchial state you can not do anything you want, who the hell is going to feed you for sitting around on a computer all day or learning to fly a plane, if you want to move country, you will die on the way.

Another thing I would do as Prime Minister is require a licence to own pet mammals with their genitals intact, any poor doggy walking about with his panda bear flopping inbetween his legs will be assumed to be stray. This is to reduce strays and the animal rights atrocities which go with strays, all land mammals are pests here, we can't have an ecosystem and strays so one has to go.

This post has been edited by Pisces: Apr 18 2007, 04:15 AM