Could you run your country better?

[Korolev]

I'm not arrogant enough to assume I would make a good leader. I probably wouldn't do horribly with a little training, but I'm not going to say that I could usher in a golden age for my country. Running a nation is COMPLEX. It's not easy, for anyone. You will NEVER be able to make everyone happy and that's just a fact.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Probably not. The Republicans' behavior over the past three years would have turned me into a damn tyrant...I just wouldn't put up with their constant lying, shit talking and blockading. I wouldn't take it from the Democrats either, before anyone starts jumping on my case, but...It's not the Democrats we see on Faux Noise, now is it?

 

[Esotera]

Easy - just put the scientists/engineers in charge, or anyway who can look at a large amount of data and actually interpret it. It wouldn't work entirely, but it'd be better than the current system.

 

[thiosk]

Well, if I was running things in the US, I would institutionalize a genetic modification program to turn the military into 8 foot tall supermen and outfit them in powered armor and fully automatic grenade launchers and modified chainsaws. I would then fire everyone in congress and start invading folk.

Jersey shore, pawn stars, ice road truckers, and the documentary "apocalypse island" would all be removed from the television lineup.

Easy - just put the scientists/engineers in charge, or anyway who can look at a large amount of data and actually interpret it. It wouldn't work entirely, but it'd be better than the current system.

I'm a scientist, and while i'd appreciate being in charge, we scientists and engineers tend to have grossly warped ideas about how to spend money. Put an engineer in charge, and before you'll know it he'll go mad with power and start trying to build tunnels to the moon

 

[Twilight_guy]

No. I have no idea how to run a country. Not to mention that I'd immediately have to commit political suicide by balancing the budget and *gasp* actually cutting out things that people want.

 

[NerdElf]

A drunk monkey has a bigger IQ than my country's president and prime minister combined. And a better sense of morality than all of the corupt inbreds found in the government.

 

[Sansha]

First, death penalty. If you take a life and there is overwhelming evidence - not just beyond doubt - that you did it, you will die, that week, by hanging.

Second, change the prison system to make it a place of therapy, education and corrections for the first offense. Helping people talk about why they commit their crime, and how they can re-enter society and not offend again.
But for the second offense, a hideous screaming nightmare world from which there is no waking, where a man is constantly bombarded by his darkest shadows and sent to the point of clinical insanity. I wouldn't even feed them real food - just dump a truck of scraps in the courtyard every second evening. Whatever happens, happens. Cells that are totally bare, and through the night have zero light or sound. Fights between inmates not broken up. Real "How could you do this to a human being?" shit. Rapists especially, generally lose their rights as people, given generally a cell as a bare concrete room with a stool and noose already set up, and are fed and tended to 'when we get around to it'.
I call it the 'You Had Your Chance' system.
I'd have to do a lot to ensure fair trials and uncorrupted police, but I'm sure I could make it work and horrify some other countries with my soulless brutality.

But outside the scum of society, I would be a benevolent leader, ensuring as many of my people are as happy as possible. Total legalization of gay marriage - not civil fucking unions, MARRIAGE. Gay people have as much right to be miserable as anyone else.
Welfare for the truly deserving - sometimes shit happens and you can't survive on your own for a little while. Pour as much money as I can into education so people CAN better themselves, along with hospitals and clinics, ensuring people can always get the treatment they need.

I want my people to be as safe and happy as possible, and I believe the key to this is rehabilitating, or torturing those who would threaten it.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Im from Norway, though the politicians are doing something right, beeing one of the wealthiest country in the world.. There are alot of stuff i would do differently.
Espesially concerning schools, roads and welfare..

Could i have done a better job myself?

I have no idea if its better before it has been put to the test, cause when doing something in one place, it affects things often negatively other places..

 

[jonyboy13]

Ha, I'm from Israel. Any 15 year old with a average education could do a better job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p5B0q2uhwU Skip to 01:00 and watch the retard.
In case it isn't funny enough, this is our former Minister of Defense.
For starters, I'd be able to "operate" binoculars. Then I'd stop the BS and say that we did conquered those territories and then I'd declare war on Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

 

[TeeBs]

Oh no.

Admittedly I feel if I could make select decisions "Legalizing Gay Marrage and Marijuana, Spend less money on defense, take away some benefits from the elderly and put it in education" and let everything else be on autopilot, I feel like things could be better, but thats a personal opinion sort of thing.

 

[Mr.Numbers]

First, death penalty. If you take a life and there is overwhelming evidence - not just beyond doubt - that you did it, you will die, that week, by hanging.

Second, change the prison system to make it a place of therapy, education and corrections for the first offense. Helping people talk about why they commit their crime, and how they can re-enter society and not offend again.
But for the second offense, a hideous screaming nightmare world from which there is no waking, where a man is constantly bombarded by his darkest shadows and sent to the point of clinical insanity. I wouldn't even feed them real food - just dump a truck of scraps in the courtyard every second evening. Whatever happens, happens. Cells that are totally bare, and through the night have zero light or sound. Fights between inmates not broken up. Real "How could you do this to a human being?" shit. Rapists especially, generally lose their rights as people, given generally a cell as a bare concrete room with a stool and noose already set up, and are fed and tended to 'when we get around to it'.
I call it the 'You Had Your Chance' system.

I want my people to be as safe and happy as possible, and I believe the key to this is rehabilitating, or torturing those who would threaten it.

My god this.

Coming from my mothers side a long tradition of incredible soldiers (Including a winner of the Royal Distinguished Flying Cross) and high ranking policeman (Head detectives, etc.) and from my fathers side a long history of being f*cked up by criminals ;Me this year by a druggy, dad put into coma by serial assaulter, grandpa on that side (Also a highway cop) Ran off the road by a serial drunk driver, car rolled. Killed.

I am sick of the stories and the situations that allow this shit to happen. The guy who put me into hospital was off his face all the time, so much so that he streaked the grade High School Equivalency test this year. The guy who put my dad into a coma? 21 prior charges and was out on bail. Grandpa? The guy had had his license revoked prior for reckless AND drunk driving.

The worst thing in my case was, because the kid was under 18, he could be remorseless (He was) and as long as he apologized to the police they couldn't touch him. At all. Not even a record.

This is the sort of thing that needs to be fixed.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Jeremy Clarkson is a good example of the kind of no-nonsense person you need in a government. Whether you like him or not, he is constantly saying, "When I come to power I'm going to make this a rule". And you know that if he was in power stuff would get done. Instead of the cowardly government the UK at least has. My point is that everyone thinks that they could do a better job than those in charge. Especially when they aren't in a situation to back it up.
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ROFL

Seriously?!

He is exactly the kind of person who shouldn't run a country! You have no idea how hard it is to get your own way in government. Even in the UK. In the USA the system is pretty much designed to make it hard for anyone to do anything, hence Obama's lack of big change, and the constant battle in Congress.

On top of that, he's an uncouth pseudo-racist. That will not endear him to the wider world. Even barring those traits he's still a bit of an oaf. He's a bad negotiator. He knows nothing of economics nor does he even begin to appreciate the views opposing his.

No. Neither I nor, most likely, anyone else on the internet, would be able to do a better job.

Don't you think that, if it were possible or easy to do a better job, it would have been done?

 

[philosophicalbastard]

Easy - just put the scientists/engineers in charge, or anyway who can look at a large amount of data and actually interpret it. It wouldn't work entirely, but it'd be better than the current system.

I'm a scientist, and while i'd appreciate being in charge, we scientists and engineers tend to have grossly warped ideas about how to spend money. Put an engineer in charge, and before you'll know it he'll go mad with power and start trying to build tunnels to the moon

Thats what would pretty much happen if I was in charge, spend the entire country's money on building a space elevator. I also prefer to let the politicians deal with politics as they all seem to be very passionate enough about how they believe a country should be run, that they constantly bicker and moan about small things when the nation is collapsing around them.

 

[Sansha]

First, death penalty. If you take a life and there is overwhelming evidence - not just beyond doubt - that you did it, you will die, that week, by hanging.

Second, change the prison system to make it a place of therapy, education and corrections for the first offense. Helping people talk about why they commit their crime, and how they can re-enter society and not offend again.
But for the second offense, a hideous screaming nightmare world from which there is no waking, where a man is constantly bombarded by his darkest shadows and sent to the point of clinical insanity. I wouldn't even feed them real food - just dump a truck of scraps in the courtyard every second evening. Whatever happens, happens. Cells that are totally bare, and through the night have zero light or sound. Fights between inmates not broken up. Real "How could you do this to a human being?" shit. Rapists especially, generally lose their rights as people, given generally a cell as a bare concrete room with a stool and noose already set up, and are fed and tended to 'when we get around to it'.
I call it the 'You Had Your Chance' system.

I want my people to be as safe and happy as possible, and I believe the key to this is rehabilitating, or torturing those who would threaten it.

This is the sort of thing that needs to be fixed.

I propose a procedure for one's second drink driving offense that weakens the liver to the point that ingestion of alcohol results in death, or crippling retardation. Good practice for student surgeons, really, and it saves a ton of money that would have otherwise been spent on a person worth less than nothing.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Do you mean in a scenario where I am dictator and the land is governed under my ideology, or am I just the president of the USA. I definitely think that the decisions I would make would be more sound, if I could get them actually enacted, but our political system is so convoluted that getting anything done the way it's intended (which is usually the only way it works) is extremely difficult, and the extent of my knowledge is completely from an outside looking in perspective. I can't really claim to have full understanding of what the environment is like, nor can anyone else until they've experienced it.

I'm going to go with maybe. Of course as somebody who isn't a complete liberal or conservative I wouldn't have a chance in hell in our political system anyways so the world will never find out.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

It would entirely depend on the sector I was put in as to if I could do a better job as this is the problem with governments. People who are not qualified to be a position for whatever reason(Bertie Ahern claimed that while he was Minister for Finance he didn't have a bank account).

 

[Kargathia]

No. I have no idea how to run a country. Not to mention that I'd immediately have to commit political suicide by balancing the budget and *gasp* actually cutting out things that people want.

It generally comes down to this. Unimpressed as we all may be with our respective governments, I doubt there's anyone in this thread who can really say he has any idea of how to run a country, let alone how to survive public opinion.

 

[crazeekamikazee]

Better than the UK conservatives? hell yes I could, would I tax the poor and give the rich tax breaks? no fucking way, wile I would lower taxes, it wouldn't be just for the rich, and the "middle class squeezed" can go eat a dick.