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.

[DoomedOne]

I wouldn't pull out of the U.N., but without putting this on my platform when I'm running after my first weeks I'd propose World Peace to the U.N. in a process that would take several steps

1. The U.N. was built for a specific purpose. This purpose must change, as must the UNs laws. In essence, it must be replaced with the next incarnation of Global Government. The new UN would have no security council with 1 vote vetoes so countries like France, the USSR and ourselves would no longer be able to veto security issues. I mean, the security council formed during a very delicate time when it came to international relations, so the balance of power had to fall awkwardly and now policy that has long lost its meaning is still being manipulated.

2. The new U.N. would have to include every single country on Earth. From the warlords the West would like to pretend it didn't place in power to all other leaders, and all the leaders would work together to create a U.N. we can all compromise on, just like the creation of the constitution.

3. Since the United States has basically the same number of nukes as the rest of the world combined, my disarmorment plan would promise that for every disarmed nuke in the rest of the world, we'd disarm one. ANd I'd set it up in schedules, for instance India and Pakistan would have to disarm at the same time.

No, this would never pass, but not because the plan doesn't work, people are just too myopic and selfish. I mean, at least 70% of the United States couldn't be happier that we're a hegemon, eve though if you look at ecolnomics extensively enough, the choice is really between hegemony and survival, as Noam Chompsky put it.

Of course, I do forsee problems in the plan. For one, leaders do not act in their people's best interest. Even the founding fathers inserted a few little things in there to ensure the upper class got to stay upper class. I mean, the Bush Administration has used the Iraq war to make companies like Halliburton billions of dollars, and that won't stop.

But that just reminds me of a few more things:

Abortion - My compromise with pro-life America is that as soon as you can help me find a home for every unwanted child after its born, I will help make sure it has a home before its born.

Free Trade - It's a foundation of our country. I believe competition brings out the strongest of us and free-trade does the same for our economy. How ever businesses should out compete each other based on efficiency, ingenuity and franly the best product NOT on how low they are willing to stoop. Because corporations have no sightlines outside of the bottom-line, it's our responsibility to enforce some ethics. Like I said, trade embargo on all businesses that don't pay their employees living wages. GMOs would be taken off the market because they pose such a dangerous threat to the ecosystem. Pollution laws would be so strict that auto companies who aren't mass producing electric cars by the first two years I'm in office will all be out of business.

Oh yeah and privacy will be respected again. No one will be labeled a sex offender before at least trying or providing evidence that they were going to try to offend some sex... and at that point we would cut their balls off. This government is currently developing a machine that can read people's individual magnetic fields or some compassion that has to do with energy given off by the circular system, it's like scanning your thumb print except you won't even get a chance to refuse. That's one thing I would be very big one holding onto, one human being's right to say no.

think about it

"No Officer I will not move five blocks down, I am going to protest here under my constitutional right."

Now that I'm getting wound up, I really want to talk about the importance of government funding college too, but I won't. Oh but hey we won't get attacked by terrorists because one of my goals would be

1. End United States occuption of foreign soil so no one gets all pissed off and starts anymore terrorist cells

2. Hunt down and kill the rest, instead of hiring mercenaries to sit outside of a hamster cave cave for months on end while my army's off fighting for my immoral Chairmen associates. I mean, the United States has been a terrorist state since Reagan supported that bloody coup in Nicaragua. That's not just my opinion, that's the World Court's. Our bloody rampage across the impoverished world needs to stop now or we're going to get attacked again.