If you were the President of the Untied States,

[SeaCat]

If you were the President of the United States, and didn't have to worry about getting re-elected, what new federal laws would you institute?
Me, I would make birth controll before the age of twenty mandatory. I would also strike down any laws dealing with clothing in public. I would do away with laws dealing with marriage and it's limitations. (You want three wives or three husbands go for it, as long as any children are cared for.) Immigration? If you can get a job then come on in, just don't think you'll get welfare.
Welfare? You can get help for six months, after that either have a job or starve like the rest of us.
Weapons and self defense? Go ahead and carry anything you want. If you hurt somebody it better be in self defense. If it isn't then we give you to the survivors and/or family of the deceased.
Rape? Castration! If it was gang rape or it took place over time then public castration. Oh yeah, all castrations to be done with something brutal. A rusty Cheese Grator comes to mind.
Public nudity? Go for it. The only proviso here is no sex in front of kids.
Pedophilia. Public Castration, (or it's femal counterpart,) sans pain relivers.
Theft? The Arabs have the right idea here. First count is loss of the right hand. Second count is loss of the head.
In other words, live and let live, but in the case of crimes let the punishment fit the crime.
Any other ideas?

SeaCat

 

[shereads]

If you were the President of the United States, and didn't have to worry about getting re-elected, what new federal laws would you institute?

Only two

(1) A law making myself President for Life.

(2) A law requiring mandatory deportation of my detractors.

 

[kellycummings]

1. make them show me where they've hidden the aliens

2. tell me who shot JFK

3. tell the UN "you're in our country so it's my way or the highway."

4. bomb anyone who even remotely disagrees with us. You want to hate us? I'll give you a reason to hate us!

5. install shag carpet and a disco ball in the oval office

 

[Edward Teach]

Create a Department of Homeland Interns headed by, oh Sybil Shepard maybe.

Oh, and pass those laws Shereads suggested.

 

[Dirty Slut]

I would see to it, that no child in America went hungry, or lived without a roof over their head, and that a complete education became available for every citizen.

I'd put a mandate on the use of carbon fossil fuel use that would require a 20% reduction in five years, and a 50% reduction every five years after that. Hybrids would be more common than not, and even they would be phased out eventually.

Yes, we would go to Mars, but with the intension of colonizing it in the near enough future. To do that we would have to put a permanent mining base on the Moon to support a fuel depot orbiting the lunar surface. The Fuel Depot would also become a space shipyard, for future exploration. This is doable right now if we used the little known: Keller, J. S. Starbase One plan to make it happen. (Picture attached.) PS: His/her way is cheaper, and creates an artificial gravity with centrifugal force in the living areas.

I'd set up special homeless shelters with the intent of re-educating, and finding jobs, and transportation for those who require a hand up kind of help. This could become a part of the responcibilities of the unemployment agencies of each state. In this way we would have a more accurate count of the unemployed in America from now on.

Also, in conjunction with the above I would try to institute a new mandatory national 401K type of plan for all American citizens which would take no less than 5% of their gross before taxes, or more if they wish up to 15% that follows them from job to job from the very first moment they are employed until they retire, but no earlier than age 45. This national 401K plan would have nothing to do with Social Security, or Social Security benefits, but would be solely based on each individuals input of earned monies. The companies that the people work for at any given time would have to match whatever amount the worker put into these funds while working for them. In doing so, every company would get a mandatory special tax break to offset their half of the expense. In this way, mandatory retirement would no longer be an issue of any importance, as everyone would have enough to retire on. Working under the table would soon become obsolete, and silly.

If I think of anything else I'll let you know.

DS

 

[shereads]

I'd stimulate the job market by firing myself.

From "White House Forecasts Miss The Mark"

Washington Post
Tuesday, February 24, 2004; Page A01


President Bush last week caused a stir when he declined to endorse a projection, made by his own Council of Economic Advisers, that the economy would add 2.6 million jobs this year. But that forecast, derided as wildly optimistic, was one of the more modest predictions the administration has made about the economy over the past three years.

Two years ago, the administration forecast that there would be 3.4 million more jobs in 2003 than there were in 2000. And it predicted a budget deficit for fiscal 2004 of $14 billion. The economy ended up losing 1.7 million jobs over that period, and the budget deficit for this year is on course to be $521 billion.

These are not isolated cases. Over three years, the administration has repeatedly and significantly overstated the government's fiscal health and the number of jobs the economy would create, but economists and politicians disagree about why.

The president, though not addressing the predictions directly, regularly points to four events that altered economic expectations: the recession; the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks; the corporate governance scandals; and war in Iraq. "We've been through a lot," Bush said in an economics speech Thursday. "But we acted, here in Washington. I led."

Figures released by the White House show that its overestimate of job creation in 2003 was the largest forecast error made in at least 15 years, and its 2002 underestimate of the deficit was the largest in at least 21 years.

In June 2001, the Treasury Department announced a sharper-than-expected drop in tax revenue. In January 2002, the Congressional Budget Office observed that tax receipts were lower "for reasons that are not entirely understood," and it warned that part of the phenomenon "will remain." The White House Office of Management and Budget, in July 2002, acknowledged that "the precise causes of this year's income tax drop-off will not be known for some time." Yet the administration continued to push for more tax cuts, as Bush promised that the deficit "will be small and short-term."

On employment, the administration continued to make optimistic forecasts even after it became clear that historical patterns were not holding. A year ago, for example, the Council of Economic Advisers predicted that the tax cut package alone that Bush was promoting would generate 510,000 jobs in 2003 and 891,000 in 2004. Even without the tax cut, the council was predicting that average employment would grow by 1.7 million jobs from 2002 to 2003, and 2.7 million jobs between 2003 and 2004.

The administration used job-creation predictions to justify its 2001 and 2002 tax cuts, as well. In 2002, the economic advisers argued that failure to enact the stimulus package Bush proposed would cost the economy "about 300,000 jobs." The president's economists said that Bush's 2001 tax cuts would create an additional 800,000 jobs by the end of 2002.

In reality, the United States went from an average of 131.9 million jobs in 2001 to 130.4 million in 2002, and to an estimated 130.1 million in 2003. And it will need an extraordinary change to reach the 132.7 million jobs for 2004 that the economic advisers predicted -- the figure Bush declined to endorse.

The administration's budget forecasts have followed a similar pattern. A confident president proclaimed in March 2001: "We can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens." About that same time, the administration projected a budget surplus of $281 billion for 2001, $231 billion for 2002, $246 billion for 2003, $268 billion for 2004 and $273 billion for 2005.

Bush has since said that his optimism about budget deficits was based on the assumption that the economy would not hit a "trifecta" of trouble: recession, national emergency and war. But in February 2002 -- after the recession was declared, the terrorist attacks had occurred and war had begun in Afghanistan -- the administration continued to have upbeat predictions. Although it forecast a $106 billion deficit in 2002, it saw the deficit shrinking to $80 billion in 2003, $14 billion in 2004, and becoming a surplus of $61 billion in 2005. Those figures, too, quickly became seen as overly optimistic, as tax receipts continued to come in lower than expected. A year later, in 2003, the administration predicted a deficit of $304 billion for 2003 and $307 billion for 2004. In reality, the 2003 deficit was $375 billion, and the White House now expects a deficit of $521 billion for 2004.

 

[Edward Teach]

Re: I'd stimulate the job market by firing myself.

From "White House Forecasts Miss The Mark"

Washington Post
Tuesday, February 24, 2004; Page A01


President Bush last week caused a stir when he declined to endorse a projection, made by his own Council of Economic Advisers, that the economy would add 2.6 million jobs this year. But that forecast, derided as wildly optimistic, was one of the more modest predictions the administration has made about the economy over the past three years.

Two years ago, the administration forecast that there would be 3.4 million more jobs in 2003 than there were in 2000. And it predicted a budget deficit for fiscal 2004 of $14 billion. The economy ended up losing 1.7 million jobs over that period, and the budget deficit for this year is on course to be $521 billion.

These are not isolated cases. Over three years, the administration has repeatedly and significantly overstated the government's fiscal health and the number of jobs the economy would create, but economists and politicians disagree about why.

The president, though not addressing the predictions directly, regularly points to four events that altered economic expectations: the recession; the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks; the corporate governance scandals; and war in Iraq. "We've been through a lot," Bush said in an economics speech Thursday. "But we acted, here in Washington. I led."

Figures released by the White House show that its overestimate of job creation in 2003 was the largest forecast error made in at least 15 years, and its 2002 underestimate of the deficit was the largest in at least 21 years.

In June 2001, the Treasury Department announced a sharper-than-expected drop in tax revenue. In January 2002, the Congressional Budget Office observed that tax receipts were lower "for reasons that are not entirely understood," and it warned that part of the phenomenon "will remain." The White House Office of Management and Budget, in July 2002, acknowledged that "the precise causes of this year's income tax drop-off will not be known for some time." Yet the administration continued to push for more tax cuts, as Bush promised that the deficit "will be small and short-term."

On employment, the administration continued to make optimistic forecasts even after it became clear that historical patterns were not holding. A year ago, for example, the Council of Economic Advisers predicted that the tax cut package alone that Bush was promoting would generate 510,000 jobs in 2003 and 891,000 in 2004. Even without the tax cut, the council was predicting that average employment would grow by 1.7 million jobs from 2002 to 2003, and 2.7 million jobs between 2003 and 2004.

The administration used job-creation predictions to justify its 2001 and 2002 tax cuts, as well. In 2002, the economic advisers argued that failure to enact the stimulus package Bush proposed would cost the economy "about 300,000 jobs." The president's economists said that Bush's 2001 tax cuts would create an additional 800,000 jobs by the end of 2002.

In reality, the United States went from an average of 131.9 million jobs in 2001 to 130.4 million in 2002, and to an estimated 130.1 million in 2003. And it will need an extraordinary change to reach the 132.7 million jobs for 2004 that the economic advisers predicted -- the figure Bush declined to endorse.

The administration's budget forecasts have followed a similar pattern. A confident president proclaimed in March 2001: "We can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens." About that same time, the administration projected a budget surplus of $281 billion for 2001, $231 billion for 2002, $246 billion for 2003, $268 billion for 2004 and $273 billion for 2005.

Bush has since said that his optimism about budget deficits was based on the assumption that the economy would not hit a "trifecta" of trouble: recession, national emergency and war. But in February 2002 -- after the recession was declared, the terrorist attacks had occurred and war had begun in Afghanistan -- the administration continued to have upbeat predictions. Although it forecast a $106 billion deficit in 2002, it saw the deficit shrinking to $80 billion in 2003, $14 billion in 2004, and becoming a surplus of $61 billion in 2005. Those figures, too, quickly became seen as overly optimistic, as tax receipts continued to come in lower than expected. A year later, in 2003, the administration predicted a deficit of $304 billion for 2003 and $307 billion for 2004. In reality, the 2003 deficit was $375 billion, and the White House now expects a deficit of $521 billion for 2004.

Sher, you should know by now what the answer to all this is:

Clinton's fault

Ed

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: I'd stimulate the job market by firing myself.

Sher, you should know by now what the answer to all this is:

Clinton's fault

Ed

Damn oral sex!

 

[shereads]

He's back...He's ready...There's no constitutional prohibition against a third NON-CONSECUTIVE term...

Clinton/Kerry 65%
Bush/Guiliani 60% (I'm using economic forecast math.)



Oops.

Stop baiting me, Teach. I'm trying to stick with discussing sex and dirty stories from now on.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

This business about "educating" workers for new jobs is a huge red herring. Just what jobs are you going to educate them for? There are engineers and PhD's going begging for work because their jobs have been eliminated and sent overseas.

As for Sea Cat's vision: aside from his sexual liberalism, the rest of his crime & punishment scheme sounds just like Afghanistan before the invasion. No thanks.

---dr.M.

 

[snooper]

... If you can get a job then come on in, just don't think you'll get welfare.
Welfare? You can get help for six months, after that either have a job or starve like the rest of us...

They tried something like that in IT in th UK a couple of years back, dishin out work permits like confetti.
So now we have the most depressed IT market for years, as all the jobs are being snapped up by third world programmers who work for peanuts, live foutr to a room, and still send money home.

The reason this is possible is the inability of governments to work exchange rates fairly.

Instead of basing them on the price the government is willing to pay for foreign currency, or even gold, there should be a real comparison of costs. When you read that a poor farm worker in country X gets only $2 per day to keep him and his seven children alive, it just cannot be true. The cost of a few basics should be compared to arrive at a true exchange rate. Try a pair of shoes, a day's education for a 10 year old child, and on the supply side the wages of a bus driver in the capital city.

A married bus driver in London gets a basic £280 per week and pays about £30 of that in tax and social security. So he takes home about £250 per week. At today's offical exchange rate that is about $450 or just under $24,000 a year. Anybody know what a Washington DC bus driver earns?

 

[SnoopDog]

Have to mention I am not american,
but if I were President of the US of A, I'd probably make changes to improve social benefits systems, gun-control, and I'd take away some of the Presidents powers and privileges.
I guess those are some of USA's biggest problems.
Snoopy
P.S.: from the movie 'Head Of State'
'We want you to become president' - 'Of what?'
'Of the United States' - 'Of what?'
'Of America' - 'Which America?'
'NORTHERN AMERICA !' - 'Get outta here !!!'

 

[shereads]

This business about "educating" workers for new jobs is a huge red herring. Just what jobs are you going to educate them for? There are engineers and PhD's going begging for work because their jobs have been eliminated and sent overseas.

True. Unemployment among skilled professionals was amusing to the envious when it was only happening to dot.com millionaires. Now it's rampant among people in every skill that can be performed even partially off-site, from the person who answers the phone when I call my mortage company with questions about my balance (India; transfers me to someone in California after asking a few basic questions about the nature of my call) to software programmers.

Skepticism about NAFTA on the part of American laborers never trickled over into the white collar professions; no one anticipated when NAFTA was passed that communications technology would evolve so quickly that a vast percentage of job types can be performed from remote locations - and that countries like India who educate their kids in our language would have an ocean of young professionals for whom a respectable wage equals less than the U.S. minimum wage.

Just this morning on NPR, there was a discussion of the near-hopelessless of drawing jobs back to the U.S. with corporate tax incentives when it's possible to hire software programmers in India for $6 an hour - who used to cost $60 an hour in the U.S. Meanwhile, long-term unemployment has reached a 20-year high. 300,000 families this spring will no longer covered be covered by unemployment insurance and Congress has refused to authorize new extensions beyond the six-month limit.

What's next for those people? Welfare? Homelessness? Sell the kids for medical experiments?

As for Sea Cat's vision: aside from his sexual liberalism, the rest of his crime & punishment scheme sounds just like Afghanistan before the invasion. No thanks.

---dr.M. [/B]

Amen. There are lots of places to live where you can see justice carried out as violently as you please. One can only hope that the convicted are always guilty in those countries, because in the U.S. we're not quite omniscient enough to assure that no innocent person goes to jail, much less has his private parts chopped off.

 

[gauchecritic]

Re: Re: If you were the President of the Untied States,

Instead of basing them on the price the government is willing to pay for foreign currency, or even gold

There's unintentional nail head hitting for you.

Abandonment of the gold standard and replacement with pieces of paper and promises.

From which stems the current ills of the world.

"I am just a poor boy
though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
on a pocket full of mumbles - such are promises"*

How prophetic.

Gauche

*Paul Simon's "The Boxer"

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: If you were the President of the Untied States,

"I am just a poor boy
though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
on a pocket full of mumbles - such are promises"*

How prophetic.

Gauche

"Still a man hears what he wants to hear
and disregards the rest."

Prophetic indeed.

 

[Mhari]

I surely would not do this:

Bush Endorses Amendment Banning Gay Marriage

*sigh*

 

[dirtylover]

If you were the President of the United States, and didn't have to worry about getting re-elected, what new federal laws would you institute?

1. Get rid of LA (I've been there once and all I saw was roads)

2. Ban cars, especially 4*4, especially in cities, especially in LA

3. Solve world hunger by reallocating your military budget

4. Introduce a welfare state, I hate the way we're (UK) copying your elitist system.

5. Systematic euthanasia of all caucasian, able-bodied, non-jewish, wealthy, males. Don't think that's been done before.

6. Introduce Americans to some foreigners.

7. Get the KK to gangsta rap in the ghettos.

8. Ban McDonalds, MTV, Monsanto, and Microsoft. Think I'll keep Wallmart though.

9. Get rid of capital punishment. It's wrong.

10. Stop celebrating Independence day and start paying taxes to the British again. And Thanksgiving, didn't you kill a load of Indians of something?

 

[OldnotDead]

Personally, I liked the more humorous ideas . . .

I want to change the rule that doesn't let them tell me what the mood altering drug is for when they advertise on TV. Heck, they don't even say that Viox is for arthritis. But then they advertise Viagra and tell everyone it's for Erectile Disfunction and I have to start answering questions from my eight year old niece.

I'll let them advertise liquor, but ban feminine hygeine products. Heck, I'm not sure I want advertisements of any hygeine product. Isn't that the parents' job to make sure we learn to be clean?

The Ditech Guy will be outsourced overseas.

Shereads laws will be passed, but remember *I'm* the President. All elected officials and their staff will be volunteers, so I'll only do it part time. Sher can have half the year if she wants while I'm working at a real job.

Congress will be in session 100 days per year, for another two hundred the members will be expected to work at a job as they will have no salary and all staff will also be volunteers.

Unless the country outlaws tobacco and tobacco products completely, there will be NO smoke free facilities anywhere by law. Local option, as with liquor, will prevail.

That's a good start - and probably an end as well.

 

[shereads]

Shereads laws will be passed, but remember *I'm* the President. All elected officials and their staff will be volunteers, so I'll only do it part time. Sher can have half the year if she wants while I'm working at a real job.

If we share power, I'll just sign legislation outlawing any of your legislation that I disagree with. Plus, I'll end the "drug war" which will stop making it profitable for drug lords to destroy small countries like Haiti. If you get to smoke your cigarette near my restaurant table, the man at the table on your other side gets to ask to the waiter for a clean coke spoon to replace the one he dropped on the floor. His habit won't make the room smell bad to the other diners.

Are you sure you want to get involved in my White House? I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take any crap.

 

[OldnotDead]

If we share power, I'll just sign legislation outlawing any of your legislation that I disagree with. Plus, I'll end the "drug war" which will stop making it profitable for drug lords to destroy small countries like Haiti. If you get to smoke your cigarette near my restaurant table, the man at the table on your other side gets to ask to the waiter for a clean coke spoon to replace the one he dropped on the floor. His habit won't make the room smell bad to the other diners.

Are you sure you want to get involved in my White House? I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take any crap.

Well, since I don't smoke, I guess we could dine in the same restaurants. My support of smoker's rights is based on support for all the Veterans that got started during WWII and Korea and now have to hang outside in the cold like a bunch of High School reprobates. The demographics are shifting so well to reduce smoking overall, can't we let them have a few places to drink and eat and have a little dignity?

As for the coke spoon. I'm with you part way on the drug war. Find the effort misdirected. For example, we have paid US farmers to not grow corn, tobacco and bought up excess milk production. But we don't seem willing to pay poppy farmers in Afghanistan to switch to a less profitable crop.

But on legalisation - I've switched sides on this one for probably the last time. I know all the arguments for legalization. Hell, at one time I wrote a bunch of them. I no longer think it will work. Probably a stalemate there.

I like you undoing legislation that you disagree with. Frankly I prefer a Congress and President that do not get along. Always believed when they ALL agree in DC, the public is about to get DP'd.

Between the two of us we might just get rid of a mountain of government bureacracy.

BTW - you can maintain the Angry White House. I'll hang out at Camp David and work remotely. Let you deal with all the lobbyists back in DC. That way you can have a clear field of fire as you mow them down with any guns you've collected on the days you're in office.

Also, don't mess too much with the military budget, at least for the Navy in Pensacola. On my days off, I want to get Carrier Qualified and then go fly with the Confederate Air Force when I retire.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

The Bush White House fears the law could be struck down and allow gay couples married in one state to have the same rights as traditionally married couples in all other states.

The thought of it!

"Welcome to 2004, boys and girls!"*












*and, ofcourse, boys and boys, and girls and girls.

 

[KarenAM]

Okay, some things to expect from president Karen:

1. A national energy policy based on the reduction of foreign oil imports by 50% in the next ten years, beginning with a tax on all oil brought in from Saudi Arabia, which would be used expressly to fund anti-terrorism activities. Hence, Saudi oil would quickly become too expensive for oil companies to import.

This energy policy would be based on the development of clean, renewable energy sources, which would be shared for free with every country on Earth, even Saudi Arabia.

2. An immediate insistence that all Israeli settlements be withdrawn from territory taken in 1967 or later, with most of the West Bank and Gaza Strip being placed under United Nations supervision, where it will remain until the Palestinians both renounce terrorism and terrorism against Israelis is effectively stopped. In the interim, a massive social and physical rehabilitation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be initiated, paid for by the oil-rich Arab states, but under UN supervision. As the USA and the world is weaned off oil, our leverage to get the oil-rich Arab states to cooperate will increase. The USA will also help finance a wall along the pre-1967 borders of Israel if the Israelis indicate they want one.

3. Complete public financing of all political campaigns in the USA, outlawing all private contributions to campaigns and political parties who select candidates.

4. A broad reduction in the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy will occur, generally through attrition and early retirement of employees.

5. Broad tax reform to both simplify the process of filing taxes and to eliminate loopholes will be instituted. This goes along with a pledge not to lower taxes until the budget deficit is manageable, and if tax hikes are necessary, they begin with the rich, who will all be given shiny medals and letters of thanks from a grateful president Karen for their assistance in helping the republic.

6. Any budget surplus and 50% of the pay of Congress and president Karen will go directly towards paying down the national debt. This won't really make a dent in it, but will have significant symbolic value.

7. A formal, public and written apology will be issued by president Karen to all those peoples and countries who American foreign policy has harmed over the past 50 years, together with an immediate change in foreign policy that ties American support for governments in to that government's human rights record. An exception will be made for American humanitarian aid, which will be given to anyone, anywhere, who needs it. When possible, fair restitution will be made to those who America's policies have wronged (understanding that this cannot be perfect).

8. A shift will be instituted in the criminal justice system from a policy of revenge and punishment to a policy of prevention and public safety. Career criminals, particularly violent ones, will be incarcerated for life. Attempts will be made to rehabilitate non-violent criminals, who will never be housed in the same facilities as violent criminals. Victimless crimes such as prostitution and drug use will be decriminalized wherever possible, but will remain crimes if they cause direct harm to others (as for example with drunk driving). Crime prevention policies such as first offender programs will be initiated to catch criminals before they get dangerous.

Corporate criminals will be regarded in the same light as violent criminals, given the harm they do to society.

9. A minimum standard of public health care will be established, including free medical care for children and free vaccinations for all. The CDC will be given adequate funding to protect the country from dangerous disease outbreaks, including HIV, influenza, and other pathogens. Included in this will be free and comprehensive sex education for all, and nationwide condom distribution and needle-sharing programs.

10. Education will be overhauled. No one will get a high school diploma until they have obtained and worked at an internship for a year. Products imported into the United States, or manufactured by companies operating in the United States, will be required to be produced in facilities that meet American safety and labor standards. Continued American involvement in NAFTA will be tied directly to evidence of a rising standard of living for workers in Mexico.

11. Government will clearly define its role and will not involve itself unnecessarily in moral questions. President Karen will not endorse any religion but will alternate her religious attendance between a variety of churches, mosques, synagogues and other temples. Attention will be placed on issues facing the country, not pointless arguments about who gets to marry who or whether someone can burn a piece of cloth or not. Politicians who attempt to use such issues to distract the government from its job will receive a public chastisement from president Karen.

12. President Karen will surround herself with well-educated advisors from all political parties and views. She will listen to what they have to say, and will base her cabinet on peoples' qualifications, not their political connections. President Karen will not sell her influence to the highest bidder, and she will not give or receive oral sex in the Oval Office.

13. President Karen will wear a pink tutu at each State of the Union Address she gives, to remind her that the job of president of the United States is one of service to the people of the United States, and that she thus should carry herself with some humility.

14. At the end of her term, president Karen will publicly admit to any mistakes she has made while president, and will return to private life with grace and dignity, insisting that her private life be allowed to remain so, since after all she does write erotica as a hobby.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

If I were president I think i would have a much less ambitious program than most of you.

1. I would instruct the FCC to lable all political commercials as obscene and thus not fit for netwrok broadcast.

2. I would limit the money a candidate could spend on an election to 1 million dollars. No need for Kenny boy from enron, even if he can give you 32 million, if you can only spend a mil total. Make the candidates do something they haven't in modern times, get out there and meet the people. Not just throw commercials at them.

3. Appoint john Ashcroft Ambassador to China. He should do well in a totalitarian regime with a strong secret police. Perhaps he will descide to emmigrate.

4. Spend the rest of my time undoing the damage to individual reedoms that the Neo cons have thus far engineered.


-Colly

 

[minsue]

If I were president I think i would have a much less ambitious program than most of you.

1. I would instruct the FCC to lable all political commercials as obscene and thus not fit for netwrok broadcast.

2. I would limit the money a candidate could spend on an election to 1 million dollars. No need for Kenny boy from enron, even if he can give you 32 million, if you can only spend a mil total. Make the candidates do something they haven't in modern times, get out there and meet the people. Not just throw commercials at them.

3. Appoint john Ashcroft Ambassador to China. He should do well in a totalitarian regime with a strong secret police. Perhaps he will descide to emmigrate.

4. Spend the rest of my time undoing the damage to individual reedoms that the Neo cons have thus far engineered.


-Colly

Wow, I would vote for a Republican! Who'da thunk it? That means my vote would count for once, too! (actually, I take that back. It did count once. The first time I voted in a presidential election, Clinton took AZ)

 

[Madame Manga]

He's back...He's ready...There's no constitutional prohibition against a third NON-CONSECUTIVE term...

Actually, there *is* such a prohibition in the 22nd Amendment.

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

For instance, LBJ served less than half of JFK's term, was re-elected in '64 and could have run again in '68, but chose not to.

Clinton floated the idea of allowing non-consecutive third terms last summer, and got roundly bashed at the time.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030605-020900-2841r.htm

MM