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.

[gamer10]

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.

I agree with your opinion on the removal of the security council.

Although I like to see my country have some special veto power, it causes a headache, a terrible one.

Anyway, I think the UN should become strongly democratic (I've gone over this somewhere else, I just know it). The UN should be based on a point system. For every million inhabitants, a country would have a vote worth 1 point. If it has less than a million inhabitants, then it would be a fraction of a point, etc. Anyway, the problem with this is that non-democratic nations would be abusing their people whenver they cast a vote, as their people would provide them their sway in the UN. As soon as democracy finds its place in every nation, which I don't see happening in my lifetime, this system might have some credibility.