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

Now now now Uncy olde boy
ya know there is a 7 to 1 ratio
between REMF's and frontline combat troops.

What you are saying is that we put everyone we have
in Iraq. All that would do is provide additional
targets for the bombers as we don't have the wherewithal
to do what really needs to be done over there anyways.

There's plenty enough troops there now to do what needs
to be done, if we'd let them...
 
Matters not that they are REMF's. No matter if a souljah is a cook, cobbler, MP, or howitzer gimp. The bottom line is that they are all soldiers. Just because one is a tank commander or in ordinance disposal doesn't exactly make one a qualified policeman. The prime requisite is that they are trained to shoot and follow orders. That makes for a good 5 out of 7 of people in uniform ready to take one up the kazoo for the team. All you need is one qualified person per squad calling the shots for the rest. It really is no better than an quasi organized lynch mob anyway.

Your qualified '1in 7' soldier knows how to fight an enemy that is shooting back and work out firing solutions for LAWs... not rifle through car trunks like high school dropout semi-security in Mobile International Airport.
 
Winky said:
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We hatesss it, my precious... *gollum*
 
Ya know Unc from yer Wiki page I'd say we need to
cut our forces in half
and just nuke anyone that gives us any shit.
 
Gonz said:
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.
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If it were to happen today, you may be right.

Had it happened when it should have, many things would be different. The federal government would actually be constitutional for starters. The United States would have been what it was framed to be - a group of states voluntarily united under one federal government overseeing only federal matters and allowing each state to handle the rest by the will of its citizens.

Would the US be any weaker globally? Hard to say for sure. As technology has developed in the last 150 years, probably not. What was once purely regional would now not be quite so.

The Southern states, however, would be much better off. Slavery has died as an institution in every society that ever instituted it anyway, so that is really a non issue. But the untold dollars paid into the federal coffers by Mississippi, for just one example, would have been spent at home instead of in other places. Just think what Washington wouldn't have to spend guarding Texas' border with Mexico.

Now, I turn the question back around on you. What would have been so terrible if the Confederacy had simply been allowed to leave the voluntary union they joined?
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
Now, I turn the question back around on you. What would have been so terrible if the Confederacy had simply been allowed to leave the voluntary union they joined?
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Yes. I've already alluded to my rejection of splinter group mentality. The whole is stronger than it's parts.
 
Jimmy Wilson: Can I ask you a question?

Ted Striker: What is it?

Jimmy Wilson: It's an interrogative statement, used to test knowledge,
but that's not important right now, mister.
 
Well, I still maintain that this part would have been better off without the rest of the whole. If we make the whole stronger, bully for y'all, but we got the shit end of the stick.

*final reply in thread, will continue reading*
 
Medicine would be socialized. All other industrialized nations have done it and we are 17th in the world in medicine! The richest nation in the world ranks an unbelievebale 17th!!! It is inevetable that it will become socialized in one way or another someday, so why the hell not now? I am not sure how I would implement it, but yes it would probably mean more taxes *cue incessant whining of conservatives who worship money over the value of humanity*

Drug companies would have a reasonable limit placed on their markup. Profits in that industry are insanely high as it is. Its time they were in the business of helping people as well as lining their own pockets.

Social security would become voluntary. If you want it you pay for it, if you don't you opt out and don't come crying to us when you are poor and destitute because you gambled your life saving on bad investments.

Tax loopholes and corporate welfare would dissappear. A flat tax may indeed be appropriate, possibly a value added tax, but rich fatcats would not be getting out of it.

We would not have invaded Iraq under false pretenses. Since we have invaded Iraq, we would organize a pullout date, and allow Iraq to rule Iraq. The effort over there would be more multinational.

We would be going after terror cells, not nations that had little or nothing to do with terror. We would be invading Afghanistan and or Pakistan or any nation that harbors scum like Osama Bin Laden and we would not relent until we had him. We would realize the war on terror is not one that can simply be won, but one that requires ongoing vigilance. The war on terror can never be won because where there is descent there will be rebellion. But terror can be reduced.

We would stop supporting corrupt and oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia as much as it is possible. Our commitment to freedom and democracy would not be only when it is convenient and profitable for us. It would be a real and true thing, something of which we could all be proud of.

Frivilous lawsuits would be done away with and limits would be placed on legal damages awarded.

Possibly more important than anything else is we would absolutely dedicate ourselves to alternative energy sources and clean burning fuels. We would make every effort to reduce our need for petroleum before the worlds economy collapses because of oil.

All these things are pipe dreams of course because they would be damn hard to do because they cut into the pockets and profits of corporations and directly effect the money thats filtering down to greedy politicians, but I know it would be a better world if even half of this was even half ass attempted.
 
Medicine would be socialized...
I am not sure how I would implement it,
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You'd make the private practice of medicine illegal
that's how, !

As for more 'taxes' yeah that 50% rate isn't high enough yet.

All I asked for was
Sharks with Frickin' Lasers on Their Heads!

Throw me a fricken bone here!
 
So why you respond to me is beyond me. I will now go back to my policy of not acknknowledging that "people" (and you barely qualify as one) such as you exist.

Just a side note: Nobody here has EVER paid EVEN CLOSE to 50% taxes....Not unless they are from another country or rich as f*** and so stupid that they don't have a tax specialist getting them every loophole and legal tax cheat known to man.
 
Oh good one!

By ANY quantitative or qualitative measure
you'd be hard pressed to meet the criteria
as a member of the same human race to which I belong.
 
Just because you've never made anything but pennies a year

unless you count the money you've stolen from your Mothers purse
certainly doesn't qualify you as a Fricken CPA now does it?
Yep one of the prerequisites to paying taxes
is to have generated some Fookin' INCOME!
 
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