What 6 things would you do as Dictator of the United States

[CPA]

1) abolish the third-party payor healthcare system - back to a cash based system
2) abolish the current tax system and replace it with a national sales tax system at 5% on all transactions except medical. In turn, eliminate the retransfer of tax revenues directly back to the states. States would then have to make up the difference.
3) abolish the democrat party and strike the word liberal out of the english language.
4) round up and ship all anarchists, enviro-whackos, PETA-nuts and other fringe moronic groups to France.
5) cut off all diplomatic ties with France
6) Drill, drill, drill

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: CPA
1) abolish the third-party payor healthcare system - back to a cash based system
2) abolish the current tax system and replace it with a national sales tax system at 5% on all transactions except medical. In turn, eliminate the retransfer of tax revenues directly back to the states. States would then have to make up the difference.
3) abolish the democrat party and strike the word liberal out of the english language.
4) round up and ship all anarchists, enviro-whackos, PETA-nuts and other fringe moronic groups to France.
5) cut off all diplomatic ties with France
6) Drill, drill, drill

I feel safer already.:shocked:

 

[venkman]

Op you listed 7 things.

No Particular Order:

1) Stop the war in iraq and bring our troops home from around the world. Reclaim a humble foreign policy.
2) Create an externality based business tax system with transparent oversight and job creation considered as an externality.
3) No other interference in the private market except making sure that competition can thrive. Barriers to entry must be kept low but still exist in some form to spurn risky innovation.
4) Operate the government at a profit and pay of the deficit as much as one can every year.
5) Maintain competitive markets, national defense, and a patent system should be the only responsibilities of the federal government. Everything else should be handled by the states. Federal Income tax should be completely eliminated and states will have to charge whatever they want for taxes.
6) It isn't the best business or economic decision, but I'm starting to believe that universal health care is the moral choice to make.

 

[ICRS]

I can't say what I would do, because the government monitors this message board.

 

[GrGr]

Originally posted by: ICRS
I can't say what I would do, because the government monitors this message board.

Abolish the thought police?

 

[sandorski]

1) Establish the Get a Clue Agency(GCA). They'd roam the streets looking for the Clueless. Once found, Dispatch would be contacted and a black van full of Clowns with rubber bats would swoop down and beat the Clueless until they got a Clue.

2) Establish the Do Your Fuckin Job Agency(DYFJA). They'd roam the streets looking for Slackers. Once found, Dispatch would be contacted and a black van full of Clowns with rubber bats would swoop down and beat the Slackers until they got busy.

Basically, my Dictatorship would involve a lot of black vans, Clowns, rubber bats, and beatings!

 

[mxyzptlk]

Two chicks at once.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: sandorski
1) Establish the Get a Clue Agency(GCA). They'd roam the streets looking for the Clueless. Once found, Dispatch would be contacted and a black van full of Clowns with rubber bats would swoop down and beat the Clueless until they got a Clue.

2) Establish the Do You Fuckin Job Agency(DYFJA). They'd roam the streets looking for Slackers. Once found, Dispatch would be contacted and a black van full of Clowns with rubber bats would swoop down and beat the Slackers until they got busy.

Basically, my Dictatorship would involve a lot of black vans, Clowns, and rubber bats!

rubber bats? you're a liberal tree huggin' peacenik pvssy aren't you?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: sandorski
1) Establish the Get a Clue Agency(GCA). They'd roam the streets looking for the Clueless. Once found, Dispatch would be contacted and a black van full of Clowns with rubber bats would swoop down and beat the Clueless until they got a Clue.

2) Establish the Do You Fuckin Job Agency(DYFJA). They'd roam the streets looking for Slackers. Once found, Dispatch would be contacted and a black van full of Clowns with rubber bats would swoop down and beat the Slackers until they got busy.

Basically, my Dictatorship would involve a lot of black vans, Clowns, and rubber bats!

rubber bats? you're a liberal tree huggin' peacenik pvssy aren't you?

Dispatches black van

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: CPA
1) abolish the third-party payor healthcare system - back to a cash based system
2) abolish the current tax system and replace it with a national sales tax system at 5% on all transactions except medical. In turn, eliminate the retransfer of tax revenues directly back to the states. States would then have to make up the difference.
3) abolish the democrat party and strike the word liberal out of the english language.
4) round up and ship all anarchists, enviro-whackos, PETA-nuts and other fringe moronic groups to France.
5) cut off all diplomatic ties with France
6) Drill, drill, drill

I feel safer already.:shocked:

I knew you would techs

 

[Mavtek3100]

1) Eliminate socialist work rules to stimulate the economy, no more BS 40 hour work week, get rid of the ridiculous minimum wage.
2) Eliminate the Income tax, we don't need a tax that assumes it will get an amount from our future generations or our future growth. No one owns us, like the income tax implies.
3) Liquidate all Federal departments that have anything to do with welfare, the United Nations, NATO, world affairs, or other sanctioning authorities.
4) Reduce the Federal military immediately and sell most if not all weaponry to border state militias, foreign countries, and private companies. The National Guard should be relegated to disaster preparedness and closely working with militias for defense purposes only. Saving us Trillions over a few years. (Yes that means no more bases all over the damn world).
5) Dissolve the Federal Reserve, allow congress along with private banks to produce asset backed currencies to be traded at fractional rates.
6) Update the Constitution and make sure this form of government is strictly adhered to from here on out, stay in power until we are prosperous again and the people realize we can't go back to socialism.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
4) Reform tax code for a more equitable distribution of wealth (think post WW-2 tax brackets)

are you going to add all the post WW2 loopholes in as well?

Originally posted by: heyheybooboo
6) - Designated Hitter? Going.....Going.....Gone.;
5) - PayGo Amendment to the US Constitution;
4) - No more public dollars for the playpens of for-profit sports entrepreneurs;
3) - New Urbanism Fever. Catch it.
2) - Politician Night on The Running Man

and my top priority as Dick-Tator ......

1) - Do away with the ridiculous 9/10ths of a cent on the price of a gallon of gas.

DH is ruining baseball. the picther is on the field, he should hit just like everyone else. frickin' jr. league! :|

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
1.) End Social Security. People can do better by keeping their money and investing it on their own.

you seem to have missed the news for the last couple weeks.

And that some people don't make enough to "save and invest" on their own. Social Security is a safety net so that people are not living through old age and dying in extreme poverty.

Wait RaistlinZ fails to understand is the history that people had his system, no social security and the right to invest themselves, before SS.

There was a 90% elder poverty rate. It was just the norm that nearly everyone who was older was in a miserable situation, for a variety of reasons.

Republican plan: offer ideology about how people 'should' act, and ignore the real result. Democratic plan: offer a solution that takes elder poverty from 90% to 10%.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Craig234

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
1.) End Social Security. People can do better by keeping their money and investing it on their own.

you seem to have missed the news for the last couple weeks.

And that some people don't make enough to "save and invest" on their own. Social Security is a safety net so that people are not living through old age and dying in extreme poverty.

Wait RaistlinZ fails to understand is the history that people had his system, no social security and the right to invest themselves, before SS.

There was a 90% elder poverty rate. It was just the norm that nearly everyone who was older was in a miserable situation, for a variety of reasons.

Republican plan: offer ideology about how people 'should' act, and ignore the real result. Democratic plan: offer a solution that takes elder poverty from 90% to 10%.

Need my black vans?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: Mavtek3100
1) Eliminate socialist work rules to stimulate the economy, no more BS 40 hour work week, get rid of the ridiculous minimum wage.
2) Eliminate the Income tax, we don't need a tax that assumes it will get an amount from our future generations or our future growth. No one owns us, like the income tax implies.
3) Liquidate all Federal departments that have anything to do with welfare, the United Nations, NATO, world affairs, or other sanctioning authorities.
4) Reduce the Federal military immediately and sell most if not all weaponry to border state militias, foreign countries, and private companies. The National Guard should be relegated to disaster preparedness and closely working with militias for defense purposes only. Saving us Trillions over a few years. (Yes that means no more bases all over the damn world).
5) Dissolve the Federal Reserve, allow congress along with private banks to produce asset backed currencies to be traded at fractional rates.
6) Update the Constitution and make sure this form of government is strictly adhered to from here on out, stay in power until we are prosperous again and the people realize we can't go back to socialism.

Wow. You're crazy.

 

[Craig234]

I'll list one of the six now, I've written about it before:

I'd set up a commission to design a global political structure that stably establishes a distributed system of power in the world.

The history of mankind is largely towards a concentration of power. While it's going on, there are always harmful conflits, whether it's between the US and the USSR, or between two local warlords in Afghanistan. As long as it's going on, there will be huge over-expenditure on the military by nations, and therefore overuse of the military hurting people not for the phony reasons given in propaganda but simply for the pursuit of power and greed. People will be treated as pawns and exploited as so many always have been.

Worse, once the concentratin of power finally achieves some global power - say, an alliance of the powerful in all the most powerful region, like a global EU - we can expect nothing other than an indefinite tyranny, where the things that have always helped manking escape tyranny are no longer feasible. There won't be any US to counter tyranny in the USSR. There won't be any dependance on one key leader like Alexander the Great, the system will not be threatened. There will be no real recourse, and the governing power may well likely determine that all that 'freedom of information' that leads people not to like the government too much is counter-productive, and they'll ensure everyone is given the information to be a nice cattle. What's anyone going to do about it? It's not as if tyranny tends to fall from internal pressure, especially when it's the only game in town and uses modern governing techniques for population control. All that military force and technology will have only one target, the citizens.

No, what we need is neither conflict nor centralized power, we need a stable political system which keeps power distrributed to many powers around the world, none dominant and none needing or allowed or able to try to pursue the conquest of others. It's that or tyrrany, probably.

England never decided to divest itself of the colonies; it would have happily ruled the world, just as any power would happily do so. There can't be another military revolution.

That's one of the six, to set up a stable global political system with power distributed(others will be inclined to cooperate because it protects their autonomy).

 

[Craig234]

nm

 

[ProfJohn]

Ban anyone who does this :thumbsdown::|:thumbsdown:in a forum

 

[piasabird]

So if you sell off the military, we only have anarchy left. Assuming someone wants what you have, what happens when they attack us. Duh!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mavtek3100]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: Mavtek3100
1) Eliminate socialist work rules to stimulate the economy, no more BS 40 hour work week, get rid of the ridiculous minimum wage.
2) Eliminate the Income tax, we don't need a tax that assumes it will get an amount from our future generations or our future growth. No one owns us, like the income tax implies.
3) Liquidate all Federal departments that have anything to do with welfare, the United Nations, NATO, world affairs, or other sanctioning authorities.
4) Reduce the Federal military immediately and sell most if not all weaponry to border state militias, foreign countries, and private companies. The National Guard should be relegated to disaster preparedness and closely working with militias for defense purposes only. Saving us Trillions over a few years. (Yes that means no more bases all over the damn world).
5) Dissolve the Federal Reserve, allow congress along with private banks to produce asset backed currencies to be traded at fractional rates.
6) Update the Constitution and make sure this form of government is strictly adhered to from here on out, stay in power until we are prosperous again and the people realize we can't go back to socialism.

Wow. You're crazy.

Yea I know, it would be like it was 200 years ago when we were an actual Republic. Oh and we were very prosperous............ Crazy right?

 

[SsupernovaE]

1) devote 50% of the GDP to developing a generation ship based on Project Orion.

2) abolish the criminal system and institute a Right of Vengeance to let people take the law into their own hands.

3) abandon all military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and attack Saskatchewan.

4) The Running Man will be a rite of passage for boys of 15 years of age.

5) age of consent will be lowered to "if there's grass on the field, play ball."

6) Jesus shall become the Easter Bunny, and vice versa.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: Mavtek3100
Yea I know, it would be like it was 200 years ago when we were an actual Republic. Oh and we were very prosperous............ Crazy right?

Like when we were a primarily agrarian economy with very limited international trade and had literally months to respond to any foreign military threat?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: Mavtek3100
Yea I know, it would be like it was 200 years ago when we were an actual Republic. Oh and we were very prosperous............ Crazy right?

Like when we were a primarily agrarian economy with very limited international trade and had literally months to respond to any foreign military threat?

Stop injecting reality into this.

 

[Mavtek3100]

Originally posted by: piasabird
So if you sell off the military, we only have anarchy left. Assuming someone wants what you have, what happens when they attack us. Duh!!!!!!!!!

Quick somebody better tell these countries they've succumb to anarchy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...s_without_armed_forces

There are 90 million guns in the United States, with something like 40 million gun owners. Can you imagine the state militia we would have in Texas alone if it were promoted and a partially paid part time service industry? I find it interesting though that someone might think a country like the United States where it's actually illegal to use the military against it's own citizens we would fall into anarchy.

I guess you haven't seen Red Dawn, maybe you should.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: Mavtek3100

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: Mavtek3100
1) Eliminate socialist work rules to stimulate the economy, no more BS 40 hour work week, get rid of the ridiculous minimum wage.
2) Eliminate the Income tax, we don't need a tax that assumes it will get an amount from our future generations or our future growth. No one owns us, like the income tax implies.
3) Liquidate all Federal departments that have anything to do with welfare, the United Nations, NATO, world affairs, or other sanctioning authorities.
4) Reduce the Federal military immediately and sell most if not all weaponry to border state militias, foreign countries, and private companies. The National Guard should be relegated to disaster preparedness and closely working with militias for defense purposes only. Saving us Trillions over a few years. (Yes that means no more bases all over the damn world).
5) Dissolve the Federal Reserve, allow congress along with private banks to produce asset backed currencies to be traded at fractional rates.
6) Update the Constitution and make sure this form of government is strictly adhered to from here on out, stay in power until we are prosperous again and the people realize we can't go back to socialism.

Wow. You're crazy.

Yea I know, it would be like it was 200 years ago when we were an actual Republic. Oh and we were very prosperous............ Crazy right?

Yes, most people had their own horse and cooking kettles. Children worked the fields. Rabbits could be had for the cost of few bullets. Ah, to get back to that kind of prosperity.