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What would you do as president? (pg. 3)
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| Lilith |
| Yeah, you might have to get a real job where you actually work a little bit more than 5 hours a day! :eek: |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Yeah, you might have to get a real job where you actually work a little bit more than 5 hours a day! :eek: |
thats not that bad though, 30 mins for breaks, and 1hr for lunch....
Manual is not my middle name ;) |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rhuckus
As president, I would reduce the power of the executive branch... |
Yeah, right! |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
thats not that bad though, 30 mins for breaks, and 1hr for lunch....
Manual is not my middle name ;) |
Well hell, we where not likely to ever mistake it for 'Workethic' either :haha:
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| Dj O'Callaghan |
President, we don't have one we have a Prime Minister however.
1. Reorganise the police force. One problem we face in the UK is anti social behaviour and alcohol linked violence. People seemed to get hired into to force due to academical results etc in return their like choir boys on the street they don't intimidate criminals. With the surge in gun culture over here I'd arm the police. I would split the force into two tiers an investigative unit based on people who are academical, and a Nutting Squad who'll be the muscle directly recruited out of the Paratroopers and Marines etc their task will be patrolling the streets and dealing with trouble spots etc.
2. Quit the EU. We pay the European Union £8 million a day what do we in return? Immigrants from new EU states. The EU laws why whould European law be governed by a group of bureaucrats in Brussels?
3. Immigration. There is too many people coming over working manual jobs their contributing towards the economy however we don't have the resources to cope with the influx. The schools are crowded, we don't have enough doctors and dentist etc. We need immigration to be based on a points system to fill gaps in job markets bringing over people who we actually need in society. Also we need strong checks to be performed on people coming over here.
4. Benefit cuts. Two benefits I would seriously reconsider looking at.
Family allowance -Single parent should be supported financially, however silly little teenage girls who get up duff why should I pay for their kids and house the government gives them? If they have two parents I don't think they should be given any money untill they reach 18.
Unemployment benefits - Some people sit on their a*se for £45 a week, you think how many millions it's draining out of the treasury. Unemployment benefits should be given for a year if they can't find work then they will be placed into a job by the government.
5. Crime. I'd build more prisons to house people scrap the ASBO and tagging symstem, commit the crime serve your time it's as simple as that. More Youth detention to hold juvenile offenders. Some people in the UK like nothing better then a few beers and a fight I'd conscript people aged 16 - 21 into the Army if they like fight, help them channel their aggression. Anti social behaviour is rife in some areas majority of it is caused by Youths I'd place curfews for youths on certain estates, gradually they'll learn.
6. Poor areas. It's very sad seeing areas being neglected by the government. People living in rubbish housing, high crime levels etc, lack of facilities. Kids born in these areas have a high chance of becoming criminals. One the biggest things we need in Britain is for the government to put money into inpovished areas build community centres, sporting facilites etc, improve the housing and local ammenities, get decent teachers into their schools.
7. The Military. Create more regiments not disbanding them. I hear some troops are being poorly supplied again invest more money on them. Invest more money on new ships for the navy instead of stalling on projects. |
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| Lilith |
| 8. Shoot anyone wearing Burberry. |
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| LazFX |
I like that word: conscript
@ Dj O'Callaghan so true man.
| quote: | | 6. Poor areas. It's very sad seeing areas being neglected by the government. People living in rubbish housing, high crime levels etc, lack of facilities. Kids born in these areas have a high chance of becoming criminals. One the biggest things we need in Britain is for the government to put money into inpovished areas build community centres, sporting facilites etc, improve the housing and local ammenities, get decent teachers into their schools. |
right on. |
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| metalgearsolid |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
What are you... a communist? :rolleyes:
Let's get Stalin to run the country too while we're at it. :rolleyes: |
I think this country needs some one like Stalin. There are too many bullters and parasites here. |
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| Dj O'Callaghan |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
I like that word: conscript
@ Dj O'Callaghan so true man.
right on. |
All it takes is some investment to regenerate areas. We have areas in the UK but were once exclusive areas built in the 1950's the population increases people move away etc, etc the area gradually gets less funding. Here is a steller example.
By today standards the architecture is the most digusting sight to anyones eyes and it makes these areas even more unsafe with blind spots, maze like walkways, poor lighting etc. Due to neglect the parks now a wasteland where people dump stolen cars to change. The safe shops which used to be the centre of community end up being hangouts for gangs of youths, drug dealers etc. People don't leave there homes at night. Effectivly most people are under siege in their own homes.
The UK certainly needs to bin off the European Union and use the money to improve this country. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
Hmmm, what would I do if I were Bush?
1. Install a draft to fight the war in Iraq and upcoming war in Iran I plan to create. When I say things like:
| quote: | | The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. |
Like I said last night by deploying an additional 21K more troops to Iraq, knowing I am completely stretching my military might so incredibly thin against the advice of a healthy number of military heads (whom I recently replaced, hehe), against the Joint Chiefs of Staff, against the broad majority of Congress (including many Republicans- hell even Brownback is against me dammit!), I need to make sure we are indeed committed as a country. I and a number of my mouthpiece pundits love comparing this war to that of WWII - I think it's high time we understand just how much our country sacrificed during that war and how much we must sacrifice now.
I will for the first time on my presidency ask our country to volunteer for military service. I will call upon our brave young men and women to fight for my cause, despite the dwindling numbers who don't support that cause. I will call upon my Right Wing Noise Machine blowhards to finally do the same for the first time ever - tell their listeners and my avid supporters to enlist. If that does not produce the numbers needed for my ongoing and endless battle, I will call for a draft. We must remember:
| quote: | | The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. |
This entails sacrifice, and I will make sure everyone understands this sacrifice needed.
I will also try to protect those incoming forces better than I have protected those whom are already there fighting. Things like this will not stand:
| quote: | “The thousands of troops that President Bush is expected to order to Iraq will join the fight largely without the protection of the latest armored vehicles that withstand bomb blasts far better than the Humvees in wide use, military officers said.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/na...-iraq-headlines |
I know it's been quite embarrasing how I've seemingly overlooked this protection in the past for my troops. No more.
I will also allow this Congress to attach benchmarks to my troop increase so I can for the first time create marked goals that demonstrate progress towards our own troop withdrawal and the Iraqi government standing on its own two feet.
2. Start balancing the budget and cease raping Social Security and Medicare funds to pay for all of my proposals, including the war on Iraq and tax cuts I continually and endlessly create especially during wartime (unprecedented in history).
3. Cease borrowing the out of everything I do from other countries so I don't force my country into future bankruptcy or force future generations to pay for my tabs I create
4. Start including the War in Iraq in my annual budget so people can once again see how much this war is costing everyone else
5. Any and all immigration policies that I will create will also entail stricter enforcement on those businesses that willingly and illegally hire illegal aliens. Any fencing and makeshift walls I create along the border must be followed by enforcement within our borders. If I am to consider the act of crossing our borders illegally cannot be tolerated, I must also consider the same intolerance to those who illegally harbor those aliens for their own personal business gain. The law is the law is the law.
6. I will cease my continual stripping of funding for those law enforcement and firefighters here in my own country. My previous practicies of this are embarrassing enough, and considering I must stick to my own rhetoric for fighting the War on Terra, I cannot contradict that rhetoric by weakening such forces here in my own country. I will also agree to the new Democratic bills that abide to the 9/11 Commission requests to help strengthen our stance as well.
7. I will rollback my No Child Left Behind bill, because as I have clearly seen my bill has left many children behind. I cannot continue pretending to enforce the bill without the proper funding that I fail to give, let alone know outright that the goal of 100% pass rate on my tests by 2014 was deliberately made to be unattainable and a means to further destroy public schools altogether. I will also acknowledge that the Houston based model to which my bill was created was fraudulent to begin with.
8. I will stop giving corporate welfare to Big Oil companies. Since I am not a believer in the welfare system, I cannot justify giving away tax dollars to these oil companies, especially when it's clearly revealed such revenues given to them was unnecessary.
7. When it's all said and done, I will then resign for creating illegal signing statements attached to Legislative bills, the most recent allowing me to arbitrarily open any mail I choose. That coincides with me also doing the following:
-wiretapping anyone I choose to name an "enemy combatant", circumventing all known FISA laws
-open anyone's email and trace their internet connections
-name anyone I choose as an "enemy combatant" and locked them up indefinitely without a right to trial (i.e. Habeas Corpus), and torture those individuals with arbitrarily defined by, uhh, me
-claim AUMF powers to invade any country I choose in the name of "War on Terra"
-send any "enemy combatant" I choose to another country to have them interrogated and tortured there (i.e. rendition)
The War on Terror is not a means to give me unlimited Executive Power at the whim of my say-so, despite my lawyers like John Yoo stating otherwise.
I will also rightly apologize in front of Congress for my Administration deliberately misleading us into this war in Iraq with the claims of WMDs, nuclear capability, and al Qaeda connections. I will apologize for withdrawing our attention on bin Laden from our war in Afghanistan, giving that role over to corrupt Afghan warlords, and diverting our attention elsewhere toward Iraq which had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11.
These are but a few things on my plate, and I will make these ideas plus others known in my 2007 State of the Union Address. |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
These are but a few things on my plate, and I will make these ideas plus others known in my 2007 State of the Union Address. |
We're also expecting a breakdown of the Iraq announcement yesterday from you :p
(PS: if youre going to be a Bush, say 'Umm' a lot instead of using a comma) |
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| nrjizer |
| quote: | Originally posted by DevilDogUSMC
Just what we need, more drunk driving accidents and death...
Plus higher insurance rates for everyone... Hey if young idiots
want to die, they shouldn't take the rest of us out with them. |
No. If underage people want to drink they are going to, no matter what. The current drinking age of 21 years is nothing but a small hurdle between them and their alcohol. They will get an older friend to buy it for them, or they will use a fake ID, or they'll simply go to any random, well stocked house party.
Believe me, the difference in maturity/responsibility for most people between their years of 18 and 21 is negligable. If a person is dumb enough to get wasted and drive at age 18, they're probably going to be just as dumb 3 years later.
I'm 20, and I've been drinking recreationally for about 3 years. I can personally attest that being underage has done approximately jack to keep me from drinking. And why should it? I drink responsibly, becuase I have the common sense not to do otherwise. The current drinking age is just another futile attempt to protect us from ourselves, when we should really be putting our energy into teaching responsibility and common sense. |
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