If you were president..

[s-l-u-g]

If you were president of America, in-fact, THE WORLD. What would you do to fix things and make all right?

Me? I'd try to make peace with all countries, melt down our arms, rebuild the middle east, get rid of kim jong il, make churches pay taxes like everyone else.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Burn it down and start again.

 

[milomalo]

free video games day... and by that i dont mean buying games and giving it away... but... the games that i dont play puting it in a box... so as everyone and pic a game from the box that i never got the chance to play... its a good idea

 

[DiamondJim]

Burn it down and start again.

Just vote for McCain!
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[neoman10]

kill all the people that oppose me and buy ever video game ever invented so i can have the world's game knowledge and win trivia games! mwa ha ha!

 

[FireFly90]

I would toughen up law-enforcement in the UK, intergrate unrestricted autobahn lanes on motorways, give out free kits to covert cars to waterpower using Daniel Dingles Electrolysis conversion, set a fixed tax rate for everyone and set higher taxes for poluting industries and organise the UN better.

 

[Death Magnetic]

No clothes allowed.

-Ricky

 

[DC_Josh]

Enforce the "Don't be a arsehole" law vigorously.

 

[Stalington]

I would go to small towns and walk into the local coffee shop or bar and ask the folks what they want me to do. They would probably be speechless but it would be worth it.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Repeal about 99.9% of existing legislation and close down all government departments except the courts, the military, and the police. I'd also get rid of taxes and have the government finance itself through one of several voluntary schemes such as a lottery or charging to have contracts notarized.

I would then amend the constitution to make any other method of government operation (including changing the constitution) illegal and retire, because I hate being the boss.

 

[hamster mk 4]

Publicly apologies to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. In Iraq create well guarded refugee camps that screen all entrants for weapons and explosives. Pull troops back to these camps and allow impending civil war to occur. Provide humanitarian aid to people who come to these refugee camps unarmed and blow the crap out of any one who comes armed and looking for trouble. Allow Iraq to burn while we pump as much oil out of it as possible, possibly using the refugees as labor.

On the home front, require all gas stations to include fill up capacity for electric and/or Hydrogen based vehicles by the second year of my term. Also require auto manufacturers to produce electric or hydrogen powered vehicles to gas powered vehicles at a rate of 1 to 1 by the third year of my term. Also encourage the creation of conversion kits that can replace the gasoline fuel systems of existing cars with electric or hydrogen. Through out this time I will be steadily raising the tax on gas and using the revenue to fund public transit and these other projects. Any one caught engaging in military type actions in civilian cloths would be executed as a spy as per the Geneva Convention. People caught in possession of contraband weapons or trying to enflame civil war will be imprisoned as criminals and not given POW status. Perhaps locking people from opposing factions in the same cell resulting in them getting along or killing one another.

On social issues I would push for socialized health care and denounce any one who opposed me as a puppet of the HMO and drug companies. Anyone who brings up violent video games as a bad thing will be denounced as trying to use scare tactics to draw attention away from (insert unpopular issues they supported). I would raise taxes and try to cut spending telling America that "Now is the time to stop stealing from our children". I would try an recall the bailout and instead offer loans to these financial institutions that they would have to pay back with interest. Failure to pay back gets their assets ceased by the government and auctioned off like the property of any criminal organization.

I would stop using the word "terrorist" and "insurgent" in press conferences. Instead I would refer to people who want to kill a lot of other people and destroy buildings as "mass murderers" and "criminals". By labeling them as such I would hope to lessen public anxiety and de-romanticize these actions for the people who may commit them.

By the end of my term I would hope to reduce the Middle East to another group of poor countries in Africa that may be constantly fighting but at least are easily ignored. Most Americans would be using hydrogen or electricity in place of gas except for the nostalgic throw backs who will be paying out the nose to drive their "classic" cars. The HMO industry would be replaced with a government agency. Failed banks and lending agencies would have their assets ceased and auctioned off to help pay off the national debt. I would probably be loss popular and loose reelection due to the more taxes less spending approach but hopefully it would have reduced the national debt.

 

[AuntyEthel]

Become the next hated world dictator. Hey, why not?

 

[JMeganSnow]

Become the next hated world dictator. Hey, why not?

Banana republic for the win.

 

[Amnestic]

Institute the death penalty as a punishment globally via guillotine or the executioner's axe.
Make parents parent their children.
Uncensor everything. The sooner people learn to tolerate things they dislike the better.
Tougher laws on fighting of any variety. Get in a punch up with someone over nothing? Yeah, you can spend 6 months in prison for disturbing the peace. People would quit fighting very quickly (Boys-will-be-boys stuff at school would be tolerated as far as the law goes, though schools would be encouraged to through out punishments for fighting as a deterrent for future years).
Create an independent military force which answers only to me (though just under me I'd have delegated military leaders) and is my personal arm throughout the planet as a means of putting down any rebellious factions. Subsequently I'd also either absorb country's military forces into this independent force or simply dissolve them, take the equipment and either dispose or store it for future usage.
Having removed a great chunk of military spending, working on ecology and economy would become primary matters. Specifically renewable energy sources. People who refuse to help the process (such as lowering their energy consumption or fitting their house with their own generators) would have a large "Consumption" tax attached to their yearly taxes.
Religions no longer recieve tax reductions, they are treated as any other business or place of work.

If people are found to be objecting to my regime, they are taken and put to work at the lowest of menial labour jobs (mining, generally) while being guarded by a division of my Independent Military force to prevent uprisings. If they outlive their usefullness as a menial labour worker, they are either taken and thrown to wild animals as a source of food or, should they accept the correctness of my regime, they are turned in to Prison.

There's probably more I'd do, but that's all for now.

Edit: Acer's post two down from this one reminded me of something. I'd abolish the name "President" and set myself up as Emperor, passing the title on to the child most worthy of ruling after I decide to retire/pass away.

 

[Schol-R-LEA]

Launch an immediate nuclear strike, using all available weapons, with an attack pattern such that the entire planet's surface is covered in overlapping airbursts.

 

[Acervusvlos]

I would make myself the LAST president, by turning the presidency into an assembly system, with equal representation. No parties. Only voting based on what your state's people say to the representatives.

 

[s-l-u-g]

hmm... Maybe i'd force all the world's scientists to create a robot me! so i could sit about an play games all day. btw, you dont have to pay for games anymore, having a 360 is manditory and government supplied. the government hands out games.. and uhm.. taxes pay for it.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Nationalise all olgiopolistic strategic industries (defence, rail, shipping, cement manufacture.) Break up all olgiopolies and force certain standards of competiton onall industries.

Ban all forms of advertising except newspaper ads, which must be in black, white or grey, all text of a uniform size and placed in specific locations.

Set up a public healthcare system for nations whose tax revenues can pay for it (obviously self-adminstered)



Randomly set two counties at war for a specific length of time. Also: Set certain rules for this war: i.e: Everyone uses 15th Centuary-era tactics and weapons, or I'll nuke you.

Staff the government with cronies and friends.

Recolonise Africa using all the prisoner (volunteers) from the 1st World's prisions.

Minor criminals will go to regular prision. Major ones will go to work-camps. Child rapists/killers, serial rapists, killers of civil officals or persons termed 'defenseless' (clerics, pregnant women, unarmed people, random people) will be summarily executed by a means determined by the victims family. If the victims family refuse, then they will be exectuted by a means determined by lottery. (excecutions will be televised)


Abolish all forms of politcal correctness.

Make 'Common sense' the supreme law. i.e if you fight outside a pub, then you get a night in the cells. If you mug people, you get five years. If you kill someone, you get 7.62 milimetres of white-hot justice.

Fund the space programme massively, and institute prizes for achievements in stellar exploration.

Establish a 1-year limit on all benifits.

Drop all forms of taxation except a massively expanded means of VAT. HAH! TRY AND DODGE THAT ONE, BIATCH! (Oh, and taxation on interest+Share profits+divedends)

Legalise all forms of drugs (And VAT them out of sight)

Make the British Monarchy the monarch of all English-speaking nations (America, Australia, most of Africa...)

Paricipate in all forms of debate with the most learned individuals in the land.

Establish a massive state propaganda service.

 

[Huey1000]

-Crrrrrush my enemies and name myself the Supreme Emperor of the Civilized World (that's an obvious one).

-Establish my own Praetorian guard (hey, I need my protection).

-Get rid of censorship (except for hate groups and other dangerous organizations or concepts).

-Decriminalize possession of hard drugs (addicts don't get healed in jail!).

-Legalize mass production and use of soft drugs, especially natural drugs like marijuana (isn't the idea of making nature against the law a bit, oh I don't know... unnatural!).

-Legalize prostitution (why criminalize something that's completely legal to give away for free).

-Legalize gay marriage (saying that families will fall apart because gay couples can marry is simply an otiose excuse and there is no valid reason for the fear, hatred, discrimination and oppression that gays have had to face in the world).

-Separate church and state (we respect all religions by endorsing none). And while we're at it, tax the church.

-Hold all law enforcement agencies accountable for their crimes and abuses of authority (if we cannot get away with assaulting, intimidating, or abusing innocent people, then neither should they).

-Make college education mandatory (or at least get rid of all the stupid hicks!).

-Give soldiers and vets more benefits than the average citizen (how about rewarding those who serve their country so you won't have to!).

-Establish the "shut the f**k up, smoke weed and play games all f**king day... day" holiday (come on, who wouldn't want an official holiday like that one).

-Invade and conquer every nation that opposes my empire (... and make a video game and movie out of every battle we fight and win).

-Make earth, mind and space exploration a priority (why should we stop at the earth).

-Free health care! (you may not like the taxes but you'll thank me when you don't have to pay that hospital bill). And while we're talking taxes, make the rich pay them... they have the money, now they can share the wealth!

-And last but not least, make Tel Aviv the capital of the world (I guess I have a sentimental weakness for my hometown).