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LazLaz Posts: 118
edited June 2006 in A Moving Train
Total hypothetical but someone boots Dubya and gives you the presidency for the remainder of his term. What would you do?
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    farfromglorifiedfarfromglorified Posts: 5,696
    Eliminate my own job.
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    CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    1.cut defense spending by half
    2.save 11 million lives a year with the money saved(figures factual according to the UN)
    3.repeal the patriot act
    4.start war crimes tribunal against George and his cronies
    5.pay repatriations for all the damage done in Iraq and Afghanistan
    6. pull the troops out of Saudi Arabia, next to Mecca, the muslims holiest site, and one of the reasons their so pissed.
    7. cease all support of Israel-another reason terrorists exist
    8. stop supporting dictatorships and military juntas, cease arming tyrannies, stop funding the cia,
    9.then i'd sincerely apologize to all the countries we've wrecked over the years....and pay them for the damage done.
    10.institute socialized health care
    11.fund education
    12. end corporate handouts.
    13. declare martial law and expel 90% of the house and senate.
    14. probably be assassinated.
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    LazLaz Posts: 118
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Eliminate my own job.

    lol
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    mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    Start down sizing the federal government.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
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    LazLaz Posts: 118
    There's troops next to Mecca?!?!
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    CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    Laz wrote:
    There's troops next to Mecca?!?!

    yeah man. now you know the reason their so pissed...
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    mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    Commy wrote:
    yeah man. now you know the reason their so pissed...

    Don't lie to him, you know they hate us because of our freedom.
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    keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Pull the troops out of Iraq, use the money for social programs here. Legalize gay marriage. Tell congress and the senate to get off their ass and do something useful (flag burning amendment doesn't count as useful). Seperate church and state. Rebuild New Orleans. Cut NASA spending.
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    LazLaz Posts: 118
    Commy wrote:
    yeah man. now you know the reason their so pissed...


    is this one of those common knowledge things? first I hear of it... So this is the reason they're mad? It has nothing to do with the fact that they view us a bunch of degenerate infidels?
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    LazLaz Posts: 118
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Seperate church and state.

    I thought church and state were separate, I don't recall anyone forcing me to believe in any particular religion or in any sort of religion for that matter.
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    CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    Laz wrote:
    is this one of those common knowledge things? first I hear of it... So this is the reason they're mad? It has nothing to do with the fact that they view us a bunch of degenerate infidels?


    30,000 US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia goes a long way towards pissing of a lot of Arabs...that and continued diplomatic and military support for Israel.

    The US has 700+ military bases around the world...it took the Romans 28 (I believe) to control the middles east-we have that many their now-close to anyway.
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    LazLaz Posts: 118
    Commy wrote:
    30,000 US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia goes a long way towards pissing of a lot of Arabs...that and continued diplomatic and military support for Israel.

    The US has 700+ military bases around the world...it took the Romans 28 (I believe) to control the middles east-we have that many their now-close to anyway.


    well I knew there were troops in Saudi, I just didn't know they were anywhere near Mecca, which is in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula. I thought the troops were in the northeastern Part of the peninsula.

    I tell you what, they weren't complaining back in 1990-1991...
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    hailhailkchailhailkc Posts: 582
    Get an intern named Monica.
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    mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    Eliminate the Department of Education.
    Eliminate the IRS while eliminating our current tax format for a more friendly consumption tax.
    Privatize NASA.
    Reduce military spending.
    Eliminate the Missle Defense Shield program.
    Repeal the Patriot Act.
    Introduce more funding for alternate energy research.
    Look to the UN and NATO to aid in rebuilding Iraq and setting the quickest possible withdrawl of our forces.

    That's just a start.
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    inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    I would use my presidental powers granted to my by the patriot act to:

    -make school prayer maditory..of course only the good kind...
    -outlaw abortion...that will make people stop having sex...
    -invade every country that hates freedom and our way of life....
    -do away with taxes for the top 1% of the US...
    -make sure everyone know Social Security is a goner, yet make workers continue to pay into this system...
    -blame liberals for all of the above....
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    inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    Laz wrote:
    I tell you what, they weren't complaining back in 1990-1991...

    a lot can happen in 15 years...
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    WindNoSailWindNoSail Posts: 580
    Flat tax which will eventually increase revenues
    Balance the budget
    Get rid of special interests
    Dismantle psy-ops
    Change our military and our strategies to deal with the current world
    Create competive educational system, get rid of the teacher's unions
    Strategy to create less waste and pollution per capita
    Startegy to create less demand for fuel

    Make a law that Commy can never be President :)
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    know1know1 Posts: 6,763
    Commy wrote:
    1.cut defense spending by half
    2.save 11 million lives a year with the money saved(figures factual according to the UN)
    3.repeal the patriot act
    4.start war crimes tribunal against George and his cronies
    5.pay repatriations for all the damage done in Iraq and Afghanistan
    6. pull the troops out of Saudi Arabia, next to Mecca, the muslims holiest site, and one of the reasons their so pissed.
    7. cease all support of Israel-another reason terrorists exist
    8. stop supporting dictatorships and military juntas, cease arming tyrannies, stop funding the cia,
    9.then i'd sincerely apologize to all the countries we've wrecked over the years....and pay them for the damage done.
    10.institute socialized health care
    11.fund education
    12. end corporate handouts.
    13. declare martial law and expel 90% of the house and senate.
    14. probably be assassinated.


    The president doesn't really have all those powers. Maybe you need to think about that the next time you blame Bush.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    I'd be a mean, evil, greedy dictator...so you'd hardly notice the impact...
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    CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    know1 wrote:
    The president doesn't really have all those powers. Maybe you need to think about that the next time you blame Bush.
    comander and chief man...with the army on my side...
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    CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    know1 wrote:
    The president doesn't really have all those powers. Maybe you need to think about that the next time you blame Bush.
    commander and chief man...with the army on my side...
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    Purple HawkPurple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    inmytree wrote:
    I would use my presidental powers granted to my by the patriot act to:

    -make school prayer maditory..of course only the good kind...
    -outlaw abortion...that will make people stop having sex...
    -invade every country that hates freedom and our way of life....
    -do away with taxes for the top 1% of the US...
    -make sure everyone know Social Security is a goner, yet make workers continue to pay into this system...
    -blame liberals for all of the above....

    There are several points on the agenda that you forgot!
    1. destroy the planet.
    2. Kill all black people.
    3. Kill all mexicans
    4. Halliburton.
    5. Use fear to push our agenda. (Oh the irony)
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
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    pjrvmpjrvm Posts: 99
    Use Airforce One to fly to lots and lots of Pearl Jam shows.
    Move the White House to a beach in Florida or California and play golf everyday of my life. Eventually get thrown out when they find out I'm Canadian.
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Laz wrote:
    well I knew there were troops in Saudi, I just didn't know they were anywhere near Mecca, which is in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula. I thought the troops were in the northeastern Part of the peninsula.

    I tell you what, they weren't complaining back in 1990-1991...


    of course they weren't complaining. who do you think it is that enables the house of saud to remain in power?
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    sonicreducersonicreducer Posts: 713
    Commy wrote:
    1.cut defense spending by half
    2.save 11 million lives a year with the money saved(figures factual according to the UN)
    3.repeal the patriot act
    4.start war crimes tribunal against George and his cronies
    5.pay repatriations for all the damage done in Iraq and Afghanistan
    6. pull the troops out of Saudi Arabia, next to Mecca, the muslims holiest site, and one of the reasons their so pissed.
    7. cease all support of Israel-another reason terrorists exist
    8. stop supporting dictatorships and military juntas, cease arming tyrannies, stop funding the cia,
    9.then i'd sincerely apologize to all the countries we've wrecked over the years....and pay them for the damage done.
    10.institute socialized health care
    11.fund education
    12. end corporate handouts.
    13. declare martial law and expel 90% of the house and senate.
    14. probably be assassinated.

    after reading 1-13, 14 really made me laugh,... thanks
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    Gary CarterGary Carter Shea Stadium Posts: 13,940
    i would throw bush in jail and make him shit into a can then i would chain him like a dog and laugh.i would put rummy in a cage and just watch him die.i would bring our troops home from iraq.


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    EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    I would enact only one law.

    Free Chee-tos for everyone.

    We wouldn't need to legalize marijuana because all the stoners would already be in heaven.
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    BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,292
    Does anyone still have their "President For A Day" 10C contest entry?
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    ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Laz wrote:
    Total hypothetical but someone boots Dubya and gives you the presidency for the remainder of his term. What would you do?

    I'd sentence George W Bush to death for crimes against humanity. Firstly though, I'd have him tarred and feathered and paraded around town looking like a black chicken so that bystanders could throw rotten fruit at him and beat and kick him. He could then sit on death row for a year or two before being sent to the chair and experience what it feels like, after he condemned so many others to the same fate as Governor of Texas. After he was executed I would immediately abolish the death penalty.
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    inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    There are several points on the agenda that you forgot!
    1. destroy the planet.
    2. Kill all black people.
    3. Kill all mexicans
    4. Halliburton.
    5. Use fear to push our agenda. (Oh the irony)


    Don't put words in my post, lady...I do think it's sad you would want to kill people...and #4...what does that mean..?
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