What Would You Do As President?

With the elections continually in the news there is constant discourse on what each candidate has done or will do. However, rarely do people get the chance to say what they would do. Here is your chance, you have been elected President of the US (god help us all), what items go to the head of the class and how would you handle them?

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Re:Tsiangkun 2012

[CodeBuster]

Hmmm...lets review your positions here shall we?

I will repeal corporate personhood. Return to feudalism...check

I will tax the top 5% and distribute the wealth through increased funding for basic academic research, reimburse college loans for students carrying 3.2GPA or higher, national daycare programs, and national health care programs. Why stop there? what else should the government be providing? They do such a wonderful job of spending YOUR money efficiently for you so why not just run everything that way? It is not possible to re-distribute wealth, it has been tried and it just doesn't work. You will only succeed in distributing an equal portion of misery to everyone.

Prosecute the supreme court justices who appointed Bush, and every person in the federal governemnt who continued to aid and abet the terrorist regime. Sounds like a purge. I hear that the Soviets were fond of those.

Establish a department of peace, reduce military funding, and give anyone a seat a a negotiating table so we do not have to fight them "over there" or "over here". Spoken like someone who hasn't seen much of the world. There are people out there who would rather kill us or die trying and they would only "negotiate" if they thought that it would give them a short term tactical advantage (i.e. they would negotiate in bad faith) or cause us to ease off the pressure for a while. We negotiate where we can, but sometimes we need the sword as well. Negotiation with the sword to back it up is meaningless.

Reparations for the victims of hurrican katrina who were failed by their governments. Reparations imply that someone was at fault, so unless you are going to blame Bush for the weather it doesn't make sense to talk about reparations. People choose to build their houses in flood plains or live in low lying areas, nobody forced them to live there. How is it the fault of the rest of us when the inevitable storm comes through and wipes them out? There are plenty of other places in the United States to live besides the coasts, pick one and move there or else don't complain when you have to rebuild your house in the same bad location every few years. Why should the rest of us have to pay for that?

If you run then remind me to vote for the other guy.