Power Hungry

[scheherazade_79]

I'm curious. If you were suddenly made ruler of your country and could pass any laws you pleased, what would you do?

My dictatorship would be as follows:


1. Capped earnings for footballers - instead of being paid hundreds of thousands each week for kicking a ball around, they'd be given a small allowance and given a council house to live in. The wealth would be redistributed amongst essential professions, like nursing and teaching.

2. A complete ban on animal testing, and a move towards human testing - not on hapless volunteers, but on murderers, paedophiles, terrorists and serial rapists. If a judge has decided they're going to be locked up for life at the taxpayer's expense, they may as well be contributing something to society at the same time.

3. Driving licences and vehicles would be confiscated from anyone caught driving like a fucking lunatic in a residential area. No second chances.

4. Schools would be reorganised into the old system, of having a local academic grammar school and a local secondary modern, which concentrates on vocational skills. Similarly, all the ex-polytechnical colleges would be restored as such, and it would no longer be possible to go to 'university' and get a degree in Setting the Table', 'Colour by Numbers' or the like.

5. Religious worship would be permitted, but members of all religions would be encouraged to be more active in making the world a better places. Churches, mosques, temples and other places of worship would be converted into places for the homeless and havens for stray cats and dogs. Worshippers would be encouraged to run these centres.

6. Prison would be a horrible place to go.

7. Cannabis would be legalised, and people encouraged to get stoned rather than drunk.

8. Banks and credit card companies would be banned from slapping late charges on people and increasing their debts further.

9. The maximum working day would be five hours long.

10. Billions would be spent on a public transport system that's actually more reliable, comfortable and works out cheaper than taking your own car.

 

[Rusty Knife]

The first law I'd pass would make gay marriage legal.

 

[scheherazade_79]

The first law I'd pass would make gay marriage legal.

Move to Europe and you wouldn't need to make it legal

 

[Rusty Knife]

Move to Europe and you wouldn't need to make it legal

But I don't live there, so it would be my first action.
Of course, I hope to not be able to say that for too much longer.

 

[Liar]

7. Cannabis would be legalised, and people encouraged to get stoned rather than drunk.

If you can make it taste like beer, I'm in.

 

[Aurora Black]

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Why the fuck do I even bother?

 

[Antfarmer77]

NASA..gone! Day one. There's nothing out there!! Get over it.
Rapists, drug dealers, child molesters, you get one chance and one chance only. For repeat offenders it's a tall tree and a short peice of rope.
Prisons become prisons again.
I like the equal pay for equal work concept, but I think it should be equal pay for equal quality of work.
Reduce imports ( with the exception of cigars from Dominican Republic).
Students will be graded on what they know not what they can get away with.
and probably most importantly, less emphasis will be placed on puncuation in short smut stories!!(sheesh LOL)

 

[rgraham666]

I'd say I'm quitting and reinstitute a democracy.

And if I may say, I find a lot of the decisions made here scare the living shit out of me.

 

[gauchecritic]

Everything works more or less pretty well (with obvious exceptions over here) so I'd just make two changes.

Multi-national profits stay in the country where they are made. (e.g MacD's english profits stay in England)

Private medicine is totally private. They do their own training, have their own beds and treat their own emergencies (particularly post-op when they've fucked up)

 

[Aurora Black]

*bump*

 

[tolyk]

I'd say I'm quitting and reinstitute a democracy.

And if I may say, I find a lot of the decisions made here scare the living shit out of me.

I'm with you Rob

 

[Aurora Black]

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I repeat: Why the fuck do I even bother?

 

[yui]

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I repeat: Why the fuck do I even bother?

k, I missed it. What are you bothering with? I'll support-ish you as long as we aren't killing kittens with anything other than masturbation ....

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I'd make everyone blonde....




























No, wait!





















Yeah, blonde.

Q_C

 

[Antfarmer77]

I'd make everyone blonde....




























No, wait!





















Yeah, blonde.

Q_C

Didn't Hitler say that too?

 

[FallingToFly]

Keep in mind, these are simply MY views and I don't expect anyone else to think they are a good idea. Period. I am also not up for debate on these, you won't change my mind.

1. Hmmm.... massive prison sweep with a firing squad and live amunition. Rapists, murderers, pedophiles. Gone. If mistakes are made, compensate the family according to the manner in which the victim supported them before his or her death.

2. This will of course, be a public execution, on every channel, every radio station, run for the entire length of time it takes to deal with this issue.

3. Legalise cannabis, I really don't care. Crack, Heroin and Meth users (odd, there's a bunch of those in my stories lately) have a choice- one chance at rehab, or they go into camps where all the seized drugs are placed, along with the necessities of life- the ability to create food, clothing, better shelter, etc, etc etc. All are sterilsed before going in to avoid pregnancies. The only way out is a long pine box. All prescription drug users will lose the right to have so much as aspirin outside of a hospital's walls, and if they violate that, they get to go into a camp as well.

4. Anyone who has so much as one child, man or woman, that refuses to support that child by working and providing for it, preferring instead to stay home (I'm obviously not talking about mothers and fathers who stay at home while their partner provides the main income) and collect welfare rather than find a job (I have no problem with providing welfare for those who are struggling to get to a better place in life, only those who do nothing) will be sterilised under court order.

5. The school systems WILL be revamped. Teachers will be paid according to their accomplishments- the teachers who TEACH and don't just give busy work, whose students actually learn what they need to learn, will obviously recieve higher salaries than those who are just collecting a check. Every student will be giving a cumulative test of the semesters required material (including an essay) at the end of the semester. The overall class score will determine the teacher's bonus for that semester. Handwriting, shorthand, typing, etc, will all be brought back and required subjects beginning in grade school. There will be NO social promotion. Free preschool programs, run by the state for those parents who cannot afford private preschooling, will be available for every child from age 3 to 5. Physical Education will be a requirement for at least one period a day until graduation. School nurses will evaluate dietary and nutrition needs for at risk students (either side of the fence, people, too much or too little) and provide them with health counselling as a matter of course. They will also counsel the parents on how to help their child stay healthy. All outside food ssourcing will be eliminated. Meals will be prepared according to Adelle Davis' "Let's have Healthy Children" guidelines, daily and on site. School cafeteria workers will be compensated accordingly to this, as it will require such things as baking, preparing, cooking, serving, etc. The only drink machines on campus will be bottled water dispensers, and the prices will be reasonable.

5. The only gas available by 2010 will be E85. By 2015, everything will be done off of renewable fuels, and oil drilling will cease. The oil companies will either get on board, or get out of the country.

6. Certain drugs shall be legal. Alcohol is legal. Drunk driving, first offense, a year in a work camp prison. Second offense, five years. Third offense, pick a drug camp of choice. Caffeine will be legal. Tobacco will be legal, with clearly and brightly designated smoking areas away from the non-smokers. You are not allowed to sue the tobacco company if you develop any sort of disease related to it. You chose your poison, now drink it- no one had a gun to your head and forced you to light up. As I said before, cannabis is legal in my world- and treated like alcohol. Don't do something stupid under the influence, and life is peachy.

7. Abandoned and neglected properties shall be seized, either removed or renovated, depending on their condition, and put to good use. Destitute or homeless families and individuals may enter into a contract with the government: You may -have- one of these homes, suitable to the needs of your family. HOWEVER! To earn this right, every adult capable of physical duty within the family must work on the home as a day laborer during it's renovation (they will have a state-run hostel to house their family during this time, providing room and board.) and within six months of move-in, you must begin paying the mortgage: 100 dollars a month for 10 years. Empty or bulldozed lots will become community gardens and play areas for children. They will be a community effort to maintain and profit from. In poorer areas, the gardens focus will be mainly on food crops to help the neighborhood eat healthier foods that their budget may allow. Businesses and individuals who donate resources to these projects will recieve a tax credit in the amount of their product/service's worth.

I have more, but I figure I'm about to get stomped so....

 

[Aurora Black]

k, I missed it. What are you bothering with? I'll support-ish you as long as we aren't killing kittens with anything other than masturbation ....

Let's just say that I scared the men with what I said about rapists and child molesters.

 

[FallingToFly]

Let's just say that I scared the men with what I said about rapists and child molesters.

Dun feel bad, I pissed off a bunch of people I'm sure. And that was with the disclaimer.

 

[Aurora Black]

Dun feel bad, I pissed off a bunch of people I'm sure. And that was with the disclaimer.

I don't regret what I said, but I was disturbed by the reaction I got. I'm too nice, damn it.

 

[CharleyH]

I'm curious. If you were suddenly made ruler of your country and could pass any laws you pleased, what would you do?

Run away, far away to a land that was equal and without... football, possibly into a land of little blue and red pills, but whether that is the Matrix or Alice in Wonderland? Who knows.

In truth, there is nothing I will or could do that would make humans a better people, and that is my existential angst as a ruler. lol - so let them eat cake! For I have more control over bettering myself than the uneducated insurgents who won't listen, let alone hear.. lol

 

[NoJo]

I'd ban all personal names except "Chuck" and "Lucille", because I have a lot of trouble remembering names, but for some reason I don't have a problem with either "Chuck" or "Lucille".

 

[AsylumSeeker]

I's Funny This Cums Up

A while back my brother was an Over The Road trucker after he retired from the Army, to put his spouse through college. I went with him for 2 weeks and experienced the lonely, frustrating life. To alleviate the boredom we'd make up funny stories about how towns got their names, etc. One afternoon we had a similar thought, about the laws we'd impose if we were in power and had the opportunity to do so. Of course, the rules were of a sexual nature.

1. Women had to go topless. Blouses were banned

2. One day a week was "nudity" day. Both men and women had to strip if leaving the house.

3. Public sex was not only accepted, but encouraged, and sometimes even rewarded if creative.

4. National taxes would be determined by nipple length. The longer the nipples, the smaller the taxes.

I don't remember all of the numerous laws we imposed, but you get the idea. It killed a day doing that, and was a break from the long, lonely, and often bumpy highway.

 

[SeaCat]

Let's just say that I scared the men with what I said about rapists and child molesters.

ROTFLMAO

You haven't read any of my posts about the treatment of molesters and rapists have you?

Cat