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If you were the President of the United States for one day, and could sign one executive order, what would it be?

It must be something specific, not "End Corperate welfare" or anything general like that.

"Free pie day"


Naturally it'd somehow wreck the economy as now the pie industry has gone bankrupt.

My executive order would remove all funding for the war in Iraq and redirect it into welfare, education, healthcare, etc. for the United States. If possible, I'd also recall all U.S. troops from Iraq.


...Of course, that would have to occur in a few months when Iraq has a strong enough defense force to stand up on its own, but still.

"Free pie day"


Naturally it'd somehow wreck the economy as now the pie industry has gone bankrupt.
You could make the pies free through taxation. High taxes are worth one day of free pie a year.

If you were the President of the United States for one day, and could sign one executive order, what would it be?

It must be something specific, not "End Corperate welfare" or anything general like that.
Only one? I would spend the entire day doing little else, were that day offered to me! :D

What to choose, what to choose? Hmm.

I suspect that I would write an Executive Order which stated that anyone working for the Federal Government found to have: placed unqualified appointees in positions under them, accepted favors from lobbyists, mislead members of Congress or members of the Cabinet, committed malfeasance of any kind in office, or been less than faithful and diligent in the performance of their duties ... would be summarily fired, then prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and barred from ever working for the Federal Government again.

Legalize gay marriage or pot. One of the two. Both would set a good precedent for the next few years, me thinks.

How about an "Isolationism Revisited" Bill?

I would soooo dissolve the FCC.

Legalize gay marriage or pot. One of the two. Both would set a good precedent for the next few years, me thinks.

You're president, not congress and the courts.

Declare Martial Law and go nuts... What?

I think if i could do that i would make it mandatory for every citizen 13+ to own a monkey.

I think if i could do that i would make it mandatory for every citizen 13+ to own a monkey.

Viva le NO MONKEY revalucion!

Viva le NO MONKEY revalucion!
Uh....hmmmm...nuh? wah?....hmmm...

I'd make college affordable...

You're president, not congress and the courts.
Screw them. What have they ever done? I legalized pot. Who are the people going to side with, the one who gave them weed or the ones who try to take it way? "Undelia for life."

Screw them. What have they ever done? I legalized pot. Who are the people going to side with, the one who gave them weed or the ones who try to take it way? "Undelia for life."
If you legalized pot, you would so be elected Presdient for Life and probally given massive kick back from 7-11 and the burito industry.

I'd begin the apocalypse by nuking Pakistan. Then India will hop to it, Russia.. you know what, just watch this (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/endofworld.html).

I would soooo dissolve the FCC.

And have 10 stations on every frequency?

I'd declare war on myself (individual, not national), and then take out the whole US army with my super powers, then get Canada to come down and burn the White House to the ground in some crazy drunken stupor. And I'd give myself a pony.

I would ban Emo and every other crappy teen fad. No one will be entitled to freedom of expression (Except for me).

If I were the president of this land, oh I'd declare total war on the pusher man! :p

Three Words: Line Item Veto.


It's an amazing little tool that, when used properly and with a nice (hopefully logical basis), can trim an amazing amount of pork from otherwise essential pieces of legislation. Case in point would be the kind of pork barrel policies implemented by that lovely Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens, during the drafting of the nation's recent massive 300 + billion transportation bill. In one rather inflammatory rider attached by Senator Stevens, two hundred and ninety million dollars of that bill would have been siphoned off for a bridge connecting the mainland to a economically and physically diminutive island of only fifty inhabitants; of course, the icing on the cake was to name the bridge "Ted Steven's Way" as a way to forever commemorate his avid corruptness and his manipulation of the legislative system.

Of course, I would love to have this power on one specific day... the day when Congress passes the government budget for the fiscal year; I'd be willing to bet the nation could save a lot of money in one 24 hour power session with a black felt-tip marker and several thousand pages of mal-appropriated projects.

If you were the President of the United States for one day, and could sign one executive order, what would it be?

It must be something specific, not "End Corperate welfare" or anything general like that.

One day wouldnt do jack squat, so sorry, cant answer. Give me two terms though and can guarantee 1 of two things would happen :) Total world peace, or human race no longer messing up the world for the other "lower" mammals.

One day wouldnt do jack squat, so sorry, cant answer. Give me two terms though and can guarantee 1 of two things would happen :) Total world peace, or human race no longer messing up the world for the other "lower" mammals.

My executive order would be a state of emergency, and try to sieze power. One day is too bloody short to do anything significant.

:D

I would try to do something silly I think, like make a universal healthcare system or bring the schools up to par. The way the country is falling behind some of the other ones out there (especially in scandinavia) is incredible, and no one is doing anything about it. Then again, the reason it's collapsing in on itself is because money has become more important than human life so maybe I should pull a Star Trek and remove currancy all together or something. Guess we'd need those food making machines to be invented for that to happen...

Yes, I'm a dork. Yes, I'm a grown, married, mother. No, I don't like the splitoffs after tng. No, I don't own any ST memorabilia. Yes, I wish I could watch it more often - Captain is a hottie!

I'd nuke China and Russia, forcing a counter-attack that wipes out modern human civilization as we know it.

I've always wanted to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It sounds like a lot more fun than daily life.

Most likely: To divert all US interests in Iraq over to home, with some of those to be redeployed to afghanistan, and none to be re-deployed back to iraq, without a new act of congress. This pullout would happen over three months, with a division or so a week pulling out, and none coming back in. While this isn't the most important thing to me, it seems to be the most likely that I could accomplish in one day.

However, I would have spent the entire day previous to 11PM trying to convince Congress to give me the ability to commit regime change in Saudi Arabia(and throw in pot, somewhere in a legal pad). If they were all high or something, and gave it to me, I would spend most of the rest of the day writing up a brief for US forces in Saudi Arabia to move out to Iraq, for our forces in iraq to be ready on the defensive, and for naval and airforces to strike into the forces of Saudi Arabia. No actual occupation would take place, but the government would be taken out. I'd rather give revolution a chance there, than terrorist-backing oil kings.

And have 10 stations on every frequency?

Whatever, chief. So long as people had the right to decide to change the channel, I'm good.

I don't need some goverment agency deciding what I can see on prime time television. I am a grown man. If I want to see boobies, it's my choice. IF I don't want my children to see boobies, I can turn off my TV.

Seriously, I'd probably change the laws that allow congressmen/women to stick amendments into bills five seconds before the vote to try to get controvertial issues passed on otherwise passive laws.

Unseriously, I'd probably declare male genital mutilation illegal. You damn Yanks have a weird obsession with removing a vital component in sex. Don't try to refute me, I know I'm right. Best of both worlds having a boyfriend without one (which is fucking weird here). He wishes he had mine :)

Seriously, I'd probably change the laws that allow congressmen/women to stick amendments into bills five seconds before the vote to try to get controvertial issues passed on otherwise passive laws.

Unseriously, I'd probably declare male genital mutilation illegal. You damn Yanks have a weird obsession with removing a vital component in sex. Don't try to refute me, I know I'm right. Best of both worlds having a boyfriend without one (which is fucking weird here). He wishes he had mine :)

Thanks, kinda felt like throwing up. you helped there atleast.

I'd make college affordable...
I'd make college FREE! Just like in Scandinavia.

Thanks, kinda felt like throwing up. you helped there atleast.
You're welcome. :fluffle:

BUMPie!

Three Words: Line Item Veto.



The line-item veto was declared Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Clinton v. New York.

I'd change the national flag from stars and stripes to hearts and zig-zags. :D