What If... You Were The U.S. President?

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Gotholic

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What would you have done differently after 9/11? What would you do about Social Security? Or other current world affairs?

Would you have gone to war with Iraq? How would you handle the situation with North Korea?
 
9/11 - no, wouldn't have done anything different.

Social Security - I would be pushing for the same thing W is pushing for, kinda. I think half of what you pay should go to SS, the other half to a private account where you control what it's invested in, but can't remove it til you're 65.

Iraq - I would have told the truth. There may be WMD's there, probably is. What we do know is that this guy is quickly becoming the next big threat in the world. We can either take him out now, or wait til he gets some real guns and then give it a shot.

N Korea - Probably wouldn't be a whole lot different than what's going on. Urge China a little harder to put more pressure on them. We can't effectively remove the N Koreans without at least using China in the process.

Next?
 
100% agreement with 'puter Tutor
Basically ol Georgie has a handle on things.

Tell you whut though. The President CANNOT
do the one thing that really needs to be done
and that is too get rid of the 50% tax rates
most Americans have to live under.
Only the citizens can revolt and throw off the yoke
of slavery that taxation represents.
 
I would have set it up so that the invasion force going into Iraq would have been twice as large instead of just being the non-policing force that it is.

I would have bombed the reactors in North Korea akin to the way that Isreal did to Iraq in the 80s.

I would have mandated a rapid turnover to more feul efficiency and thrown the full weight of almighty Uncle Sam into perfecting alternative fuel systems.

I would have stripped the 1000s of various outdated regional building, fuel, DOT, and whatever codes and government insanity that has been keeping the whole enichilada stagnant and confused for decades and replaced it with a single, simple, clear code.

I would have turned the legal system onto it ear and made most cases not involving possible incarceration relegated to speedy bench trials... under a loser pays system.

Social Security would be shot like a lame horse. If you don't have the foresight to plan for your own retirement... then you either work until you die or you starve. It was always a frigging joke from the start anyway.

I would have locked down the borders a helluva lot better.

I would have 10 times as much to add... but I don't have the time.
 
unclehobart said:
I would have set it up so that the invasion force going into Iraq would have been twice as large instead of just being the non-policing force that it is.

I would have bombed the reactors in North Korea akin to the way that Isreal did to Iraq in the 80s.

I would have mandated a rapid turnover to more feul efficiency and thrown the full weight of almighty Uncle Sam into perfecting alternative fuel systems.

I would have stripped the 1000s of various outdated regional building, fuel, DOT, and whatever codes and government insanity that has been keeping the whole enichilada stagnant and confused for decades and replaced it with a single, simple, clear code.

I would have turned the legal system onto it ear and made most cases not involving possible incarceration relegated to speedy bench trials... under a loser pays system.

Social Security would be shot like a lame horse. If you don't have the foresight to plan for your own retirement... then you either work until you die or you starve. It was always a frigging joke from the start anyway.

I would have locked down the borders a helluva lot better.

I would have 10 times as much to add... but I don't have the time.
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Good start, but one question - how would you go about getting more than 1/3 of that through congress?
 
Start with, throw out the 100,000 page tax code & replace it with a simpler, flat tax. No deductions, no write-offs, no extra's. 4% for individuals, 2.5% for corporations.

SocSecurity...much as PT puts it.

Mostly, I'd have been a fiscal conservative instead of a wimpy moderate.

I disagree with Unc about Iraq. We don't need more boots on the ground. Hell, we overthrew Baghdad in 30 days. We need to take the choke collar off the men & officers we have there now. That & lock down the Syrian & Iranian borders.
 
Arbitrarily invade our enemy without consent of Congress or the citizens.

Distribute mass propoganda that takes our intended aims and goals and restates them with something so completely unrelated that the American public will flock behind my cause now and forever because they bought the lie.

Set up a publicity machine to make sure I got credit for things I didn't even do.

Go directly against every statement I made to get elected.

Supress the rights of almost 50% of the American citizens, based solely on skin color and zip code.

After the war, deny the other side the right to speak in their own behalf, and change their votes on key issues in the name of "rebuilding efforts".






Hey, it worked in the 1860's, and most people still worship that lying bastard today, don't they?
 
I would wager that I know more about the SCV than anyone else here. I have yet to see them "linked to hate groups" or to white supremists. In reality, they are among the more respected civic organizations I know of. Sounds to me like more liberal media bullshit trying to perpetrate the ongoing myth everyone seems to be so fond of.

The facts stand, undisputed. Slinging mud is a low tactic of the desperate.

And no, I won't STFU. I'm not the one intersted in keeping the truth hidden.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
And no, I won't STFU. I'm not the one intersted in keeping the truth hidden.
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Alright then. Let's assume (it makes an ass of u & me, you know) that every US citizen is enlightened by your beliefs. Every man, woman & child in the US suddenly & willingly decides that Lincoln & friends were equal to Stalin & friends & the US should be ashamed.

What then? Do you expect one person to say, fuck it, let's hand over the south to southerners & split the US of A, thus, making us a victim of the splintered EU-type mentality? Nothing will change except for a larger group will whine about what egocentric powermad bastards the US is than whine about that now.
 
Doesn't the whining of the Civil War resurrectionists
sound JUST like the pissin' and moaning of the NAACP?

Hell they are both against the white man ha ha ha
 
HomeLAN said:
Good start, but one question - how would you go about getting more than 1/3 of that through congress?
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Executive order writs of suspension of habeus corpus under emergency doctrines as outlined within executive powers.

aka


bayonet
 
Gonz said:
Start with, throw out the 100,000 page tax code & replace it with a simpler, flat tax. No deductions, no write-offs, no extra's. 4% for individuals, 2.5% for corporations.

SocSecurity...much as PT puts it.

Mostly, I'd have been a fiscal conservative instead of a wimpy moderate.

I disagree with Unc about Iraq. We don't need more boots on the ground. Hell, we overthrew Baghdad in 30 days. We need to take the choke collar off the men & officers we have there now. That & lock down the Syrian & Iranian borders.
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The trouble were suffering at this point in Iraq is directly because of the smaller force arms mandates. A high tech army at one-third size can easily cover as much ground as a conventional force because the front is a relatively thin blade of troops and equipment moving like a windshield wiper over the opposition. Its when the dust settles and you are in posession of the territory that trouble begins. Your tiny force then has to spread over every square inch of the territory as a police force until stuff stabilizes. Would you rather have 500,000 troops or 150,000? 150,000 is certainly less able to cover the territory when the tactics dergrade from 'smash the enemy' down to patdown searches. Vietnam taught us that lesson.
 
A cop on every corner is a nice dream. What it amounts to is 8 cops on one corner bullshitting where they will get collectively toasted by one homicide bomber.

I see your point. I don't disagree with your logic, just the logistics.
 
Half a million soljahs barely equate to 1 in 38 ratio compared to the Iraqi populace as it is. What we have is a retarted 1 per 100. That doesn't allow for jack shit. Anyone can slip blindly through that noose. At least more soldiers could equate to triple the spread in presence and challenges to anyone moving about, not to mention house sweeps. There comes a point where the surveillance becomes so ungodly that nothing can move (see: North Korea; East Germany)
 
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