what would you do if you were president? in real life

[Risottia]

S'i fosse fuoco, arderei 'l mondo;
s'i fosse vento, lo tempestarei;
s'i fosse acqua, i' l'annegherei;
s'i fosse Dio, mandereil' en profondo;
s'i fosse papa, allor serei giocondo,
ché tutti cristiani imbrigarei;
s'i fosse 'mperator, ben lo farei;
a tutti tagliarei lo capo a tondo.
S'i fosse morte, andarei a mi' padre;
s'i fosse vita, non starei con lui;
similemente faria da mi' madre.
Si fosse Cecco com'i' sono e fui,
torrei le donne giovani e leggiadre:
le zoppe e vecchie lasserei altrui.

(Cecco Angiolieri)

IF I were fire, I’d burn the world; if wind,
Around about it furiously I’d blow;
If water, drowning it would suit my mind;
If God, then I’d dispatch it straight below;
If I were pope, I’d have a bit of fun
By setting Christians one against another;
If emp’ror, well, what think ye I’d have done?
All heads chopped off, and so an end to bother!
I would go seek my father were I death;
But were I life from him I’d flee away;
And I’d behave the same towards my mother;
If Cecco, as I am and draw my breath,
I’d choose such ladies as are young and gay.
Leaving the old and ugly to another.

[Tergnitz]

Military Policy
- Build a series of permanent bases in Iraq
- Continue to surge the troops in Afghanistan
- Increase the amount of SpecOps missions in Pakistan
- Increase defence spending by roughly 2-3% per year.
- Begin a space-militarisation program.
- Reform the military procurement process

Foreign Policy
- Have America take the leading role in world politics
- Re-organise NATO to reflect the post-Cold War world
- End unconditional support for Israel
- Cut American funding for the United Nations
- Pressure China for a more equal trade relationship
- Create a anti-China alliance with countries in the South-East Asia region.
- Focus on expanding American influence in South America
- Support Serbia rather than the Kosovo rebels

Economic Policy
- Simplify the tax code
- Raise tariffs on goods coming from non-democratic nations, unless they have a FTA
- Lower taxes on the upper and middle classes
- Begin to slowly lower protective tariffs on the American agricultural sector
- Reduce the corporate tax as well as taxes on small businesses
- Limit the power of unions to disrupt the running of businesses
- Raise the retirement age

Domestic Policy
- Increase federal funding for NASA and space exploration by 4-6% per year
- Privatise the education system (K-6 can be government run. All high schools and colleges are privatised, but government subsidized. Students who don’t go to a private high school after year 6 do have the option to go to a heavily subsidized government TAFE school for three years till they enter the workforce)
- Mandatory physical education every year in school
- Conversion to the metric system
- Institute the death penalty for all major crimes nationwide
- Eliminate the concept of parole, you serve your full sentence
- Institute limits for what the sensationalist media can say and print
- End all government-supported affirmative action programs
- Make border security a larger priority with increased Federal funding
- Make serious cuts in state welfare
- Replace Social Security with the Superannuation system from Australia

Healthcare
- Reverse Obama’s recent heathcare bill

Energy Policy
- Government support for the construction of more nuclear power plants
- Mandatory reforms that would make America energy independent by 2050
- Provide larger government incentives to private companies who pursue renewable energy sources.

Government Reform
- Eliminate State and Federal senates, making all legislatures unicameral
- Have the Federal Government take more responsibility from State Governments
- Take some power away from the Courts and give it back to Congress
- Institute serious legal penalties for any form of corruption
- Reform the entire government to make it more transparent to the people.
- Consolidate all Federal law enforcement agencies into a single national police force.
- Do the same to the Intelligence Agencies
- Hold referendums in Puerto Rico and Guam over admission to the Union

A rough list of what I'd do.
Layout stolen from Chrobalta

[The Imperial Navy]

Destroy the planet.

[Manahakatouki]

I don't know....get a puppy?

[Karsol]

Disband government and tell every citizen they are full of shit and that they deserve to die..,

[New Sociopia]

Realistically, if I was the President of America? Probably the same as any other president. Make promices I genuinely intend to keep that I think would change the country for the better, and then not be able to because I'm effectively a figurehead puppet for shadowy cabuls of lobbyists like Zaphod Beeblebrox and every other president for years.

[Brewdomia]

Military Policy

Establish Bases in every country on the planet.

Annex all countries as new states to the Union'

Raise Military Budget to 100% of Budget.

Test Nuclear Weapons on Pluto and the moon.

Domestic Policy

Reinstitute Slavery

Make executions mandatory for speeding

Allow Citizens to purchase and sell nuclear weapons

Allow Citizens to purchase and sell bio weapons

Allow Citizens to purchase and cell chem weapons.

Subsidize Tanks for the use of the common man.

Foreign Policy

No countries since I have already annexed them!

[Autumn Wind]

1) Run on a traditional Republican Right/Center-right platform.

2) Coopt the Christian Right groups and the Tea Party movements.

3) Push economic deregulation simultaneously with increasing civil liberty abuses in the name of national security (ban gay marriage, abortion, stronger anti-drug/crime/gang policies), use Fox News/Talk radio to obscure my moves behind banter of left-wing hysteria.

4) Declare the US a Christian Nation.

5) Covertly establish anti-me extremists

6) Use the threat of anti-me extremists to declare liberals, democrats, civil libertarians, non-christians "enemies of the state."

7) Establish loyalist secret police force to pursue and arrest/eliminate "enemies of the state," including the entire Democratic party and/or left wing political organization.

8 ) Use secret police to eliminate disloyal right-wingers/republicans.

9) Use threat of rebellion/terrorism by left-wing enemies of the state to pass the "Enabling Act" to protect the US from "Secular-Progressive subversion." Eliminating term limits/regular voting cycle...use anti-me extremist terrorist acts to disrupt other anti-me protests, independent political activity.

10) Use terrorist acts to justify further errosion of civil liberties.

11) Use the emergency powers of the Enabling Act to declare Martial Law and suspend Habeus Corpus for the "duration of the Secular-Progressive crisis"

12) Suspend the constitution- Rechristen the US as "The Christian Republic of America" along the lines of Iran, with me as "President and Supreme Defender of The Faith"

13) Use the Secret Police ("Defenders of The Faith") to destroy subversive materials: magazines, compromised newspapers, non-patriotic/christian comic books etc. Defenders of the Faith eliminate those who resist.

14) Ban television (save FOX and/or Right-Wing Christian channels)/internet (save right wing blogs)/radio (save right-wing talk stations) Defenders of the Faith eliminate those who resist.

15) Impose "15 Laws for the Spiritual Salvation of the Republic" Church attendance/bible study become nationally mandatory. Defenders of the Faith eliminate any who resist. Production/playing of Music restricted to prayers, psalms.

16) Military is required to Submit to the Will of the Lord- All weapons, vehicles, body armor, support supplies to be replaced entirely with The Bible... "For the Lord alone is your shield, the Lord Alone is your sword.." MREs discontinued as soldiers are told to "Pray for Mana from the Skies" Use the Defenders of The Faith to eliminate any who resist.

17) Gays, secularists, non-christians to be detained at "Christian Rebirth Camps" If they refuse to submit to the Word of Christ they are killed.

19) Statue of Liberty judged to be "idolatry" is destroyed.

20) Mount Rushmore judged to be "idolatry" is destroyed.

21) Stone Mountain judged to be "idolatry" is destroyed.

22) San Fransisco and Las Vegas judged to be "The New Sodom and Gamorrah" and destroyed with nuclear weapons.

23) Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, Nashville judged to be "Capitals of Indulgence" and destroyed with nuclear weapons.

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24) 2nd American Revolution supported by EU forces: Right-wing CRA forces crushed by rebels and EU troops. I commit suicide in an underground church.

25) All members of the Christian Republic of America leadership tried as War Criminals at the New York Trials. Most executed.

26) Right-Wing Christianity banned throughout USA the way Nazism is in Germany.

27) Rebuilding process begins- US reevaluates European ideas, long era of greater cooperation/cultural exchange.

[Tsa-la-gi Nation]

I would repeal the Taft-Hartly Act.

I would try to nationalise legal represenation in both criminal & civil courts.

I would abolish The Death Penalty

I would pass large tax cuts for healthcare workers that are employeed by non-profit healthcare coopertatives.

I would create a small tarriff on foriegn cars & electronics bought in the US.

I would give a 100% income tax credits up to $30,000 on home owners who invest in solar & wind power home projects that become wired into the nation's power grid.

I would try to legalize medical marijuana with the sale of the drug required by, but restricted to the state's governments.

I would pass large tax cuts for farmers who produce organic foods & cage free meats.

I would end "Columbus Day" as a federal holiday & replace it with "Sacajawea Day", to be celebrated on the day Louis & Clark made it to the west coast.

I would put federal prisoners to work on our aging highways & end privatized prisons.

[Great Nepal]

End the Fed, End DADT, End afganistan, End Iraq, End Guantanamo, Cut taxes, cut military spending by 70%, privatize education(voucher system), end the department of homeland security, end the war on drugs.

What is DADT? I wouldnt cut the military first, I would make sure a lot of the other depts were cut first. All this prosperity means nothing if we cant defend it.

Who would invade us in the first place? Even if we cut our funds by 85%, we would still be spending more on the military than any other country.

Yeah, we can probably cut the military by half and still be pretty freaking imposing.

Millitary is most important for any country of the world from Sri lanka to USA.
Execption:- 1. unless u r talking about being president of Somalia or so . There food is most important.
2. Unless u want to rule for 2 years and get invaded and conqured.

[Maurepas]

Id probably start off by celebrating for 20 minutes, Panicing for half an hour, and then formulating some kind of coping mechanism for the next day or so...

Then start tackling what comes my way...