What would you have done

[csgators]

Thanks to all my voters, I will be holding a pay pal fundraiser soon!

[marharth]

Broken records for the number of veto's used.

 

Actually focused on the economy instead of a healthcare bill that does nothing to improve healthcare.

 

Closed down TARP and demanded our money back.

 

Let GM fail.

 

etc.

I would want a stronger healthcare bill, but it would be a better idea to focus on the economy instead of trying to pass a healthcare bill that does nothing.

 

To add to your list, I would also legalize all drugs, stop all foreign aid, stop every current war, try to pass a bill to finance elections with tax dollars, so private funds do not have a upper hand with politicians winning a election, would try to rewrite the current tax system and err... That is all I can think of for now.

 

While I agree with legalization it is not something the President could accomplish with the current Congress. I am completely opposed to tax funded elections. Some of the other things I am in partial agreement but again, I think grannywils is looking for a bit of reality, she can correct me if I am wrong.

Legalization has huge support in polling, I think it could be done sometime in the near future.

 

If you want to win a election, you need to have money for advertising and campaigning. That means you can have a lot of money already and run, or you can get paid off by corporations to get into office.

 

Seems like using tax money would be a better idea to me, wouldn't cost nearly as much as a lot of the stuff we do now, and it could certainty be fit in once all the useless spending it out.

[csgators]

Broken records for the number of veto's used.

 

Actually focused on the economy instead of a healthcare bill that does nothing to improve healthcare.

 

Closed down TARP and demanded our money back.

 

Let GM fail.

 

etc.

I would want a stronger healthcare bill, but it would be a better idea to focus on the economy instead of trying to pass a healthcare bill that does nothing.

 

To add to your list, I would also legalize all drugs, stop all foreign aid, stop every current war, try to pass a bill to finance elections with tax dollars, so private funds do not have a upper hand with politicians winning a election, would try to rewrite the current tax system and err... That is all I can think of for now.

 

While I agree with legalization it is not something the President could accomplish with the current Congress. I am completely opposed to tax funded elections. Some of the other things I am in partial agreement but again, I think grannywils is looking for a bit of reality, she can correct me if I am wrong.

Legalization has huge support in polling, I think it could be done sometime in the near future.

 

If you want to win a election, you need to have money for advertising and campaigning. That means you can have a lot of money already and run, or you can get paid off by corporations to get into office.

 

Seems like using tax money would be a better idea to me, wouldn't cost nearly as much as a lot of the stuff we do now, and it could certainty be fit in once all the useless spending it out.

 

How does one qualify for these funds? Are you allowed to use your own money to gain enough support to get the funds? Why do my tax dollars have to go to those opinions I despise? So many downfalls. Wouldn't it be easier to limit the donations of corporations to that of an individual? I'm not sure what it is now but it used to be $2k. If they are a person according to the courts they should play by the same rules.

Edited June 8, 2011 by csgators

[marharth]

Broken records for the number of veto's used.

 

Actually focused on the economy instead of a healthcare bill that does nothing to improve healthcare.

 

Closed down TARP and demanded our money back.

 

Let GM fail.

 

etc.

I would want a stronger healthcare bill, but it would be a better idea to focus on the economy instead of trying to pass a healthcare bill that does nothing.

 

To add to your list, I would also legalize all drugs, stop all foreign aid, stop every current war, try to pass a bill to finance elections with tax dollars, so private funds do not have a upper hand with politicians winning a election, would try to rewrite the current tax system and err... That is all I can think of for now.

 

While I agree with legalization it is not something the President could accomplish with the current Congress. I am completely opposed to tax funded elections. Some of the other things I am in partial agreement but again, I think grannywils is looking for a bit of reality, she can correct me if I am wrong.

Legalization has huge support in polling, I think it could be done sometime in the near future.

 

If you want to win a election, you need to have money for advertising and campaigning. That means you can have a lot of money already and run, or you can get paid off by corporations to get into office.

 

Seems like using tax money would be a better idea to me, wouldn't cost nearly as much as a lot of the stuff we do now, and it could certainty be fit in once all the useless spending it out.

 

How does one qualify for these funds? Are you allowed to use your own money to gain enough support to get the funds? Why do my tax dollars have to go to those opinions I despise? So many downfalls. Wouldn't it be easier to limit the donations of corporations to that of an individual? I'm not sure what it is now but it used to be $2k. If they are a person according to the courts they should play by the same rules.

Limiting the donations per person could work, but you could always be bought out by a lot of different corporations if its a limit for the corporation.

 

EX: if you limit the corporations donations, the person can go to other corporations as well. If you limited the amount the person can receive, that would work better.

 

I suppose public funded campaigning wouldn't work either, the issue I see with elections is that only the people who are well known already can get elected. I don't think there is anyway to stop that...

[HeyYou]

Immediately ended the tax breaks "for creating jobs in developing nations."

 

Cut all foreign aid, monetary, and military.

 

Get the hell out of afghanistan, and Iraq.

 

Tell Israel and the Palestinians we are done playing referee. You guys figger it out. Leave us out of it.

 

Closed a good selection of military bases overseas. Bring the troops home, and use them to secure our borders.

 

Killed a bunch of weapons projects, for things that did not live up to what they were originally intended to, and were already over budget. (V-22 Osprey anyone?)

 

Legalize, and tax drugs. Use some of the income for government funded rehab, for folks that actually wanted it. The rest of the problem would solve itself in fairly short order........ (yes, I am a hard case.)

 

Veto ANY legislation that had even a hint of earmarks. (pork) NO laws may get passed for a while, but, congress would eventually get the hint. (Or, like another poster before me mentioned, I would get dead. :D)

 

Concentrate on getting americans back to work. One of the primary reasons we have so many uninsured, and so many foreclosures, is because we don't have any JOBS!

 

No more of this playing nice with nations that support terrorism. You wanna let them boys play on your soil, and plan and execute an attack on american soil? Fine, we will drop rather large (conventional) bombs on where we think they are, regardless of location, and then we WON'T come in and spend billions more rebuilding your country. Wanna support terrorism? That's gonna be expensive.

 

Drop ALL trade sanctions against cuba, and iraq. They just don't work, and all they do is hurt US. A strong economy in Cuba would be GOOD for us. Another source of oil would make it cheaper here.

 

Iran want's nuclear power? Fine. I don't have a problem with that. Wanna build a bomb? That's ok too. We have a bunch. Use one of those on one of my buddies? Your country will INSTANTLY become a glass-coated parking lot.

 

Drop ALL tax breaks for immigrants from various nations. Screw that. Wanna come here and start a new life? No problem, but, it won't be at an advantage over the folks that were born here.

 

Etc. :D

[JimboUK]

Immediately ended the tax breaks "for creating jobs in developing nations."

 

Cut all foreign aid, monetary, and military.

 

Get the hell out of afghanistan, and Iraq.

 

Tell Israel and the Palestinians we are done playing referee. You guys figger it out. Leave us out of it.

 

Closed a good selection of military bases overseas. Bring the troops home, and use them to secure our borders.

 

Killed a bunch of weapons projects, for things that did not live up to what they were originally intended to, and were already over budget. (V-22 Osprey anyone?)

 

Legalize, and tax drugs. Use some of the income for government funded rehab, for folks that actually wanted it. The rest of the problem would solve itself in fairly short order........ (yes, I am a hard case.)

 

Veto ANY legislation that had even a hint of earmarks. (pork) NO laws may get passed for a while, but, congress would eventually get the hint. (Or, like another poster before me mentioned, I would get dead. :D)

 

Concentrate on getting americans back to work. One of the primary reasons we have so many uninsured, and so many foreclosures, is because we don't have any JOBS!

 

No more of this playing nice with nations that support terrorism. You wanna let them boys play on your soil, and plan and execute an attack on american soil? Fine, we will drop rather large (conventional) bombs on where we think they are, regardless of location, and then we WON'T come in and spend billions more rebuilding your country. Wanna support terrorism? That's gonna be expensive.

 

Drop ALL trade sanctions against cuba, and iraq. They just don't work, and all they do is hurt US. A strong economy in Cuba would be GOOD for us. Another source of oil would make it cheaper here.

 

Iran want's nuclear power? Fine. I don't have a problem with that. Wanna build a bomb? That's ok too. We have a bunch. Use one of those on one of my buddies? Your country will INSTANTLY become a glass-coated parking lot.

 

Drop ALL tax breaks for immigrants from various nations. Screw that. Wanna come here and start a new life? No problem, but, it won't be at an advantage over the folks that were born here.

 

Etc. :D

 

If the President of the US thing doesn't work out do feel free to run over here, you'd get my vote.

[ub3rman123]

The president can't actually do all this stuff without getting Congress to approve it, can he? It seems to me it'd be hard to get that lot to do anything.

[Ghogiel]

Iran want's nuclear power? Fine. I don't have a problem with that. Wanna build a bomb? That's ok too. We have a bunch. Use one of those on one of my buddies? Your country will INSTANTLY become a glass-coated parking lot.

except that one. non proliferation of nuclear weapons is good for everyone. And you just advocated murdering millions of innocent people. Iranian people are not very happy about the gov trying to go rambo.

 

You should be like: you want nukes...? then let them have them... from a great height. in my scenario only one country is destroyed as opposed to in yours where there are 2 places nuked. plus there are still less WMD on the whole, and less people have them.

 

Since you cannot uninvent the damned things, I am trying to figure out a way that will minimise their potential for disaster. So far all I have is not letting anyone else get them as part of the plan. I certainly do not trust Iran with them.

[marharth]

The president can't actually do all this stuff without getting Congress to approve it, can he? It seems to me it'd be hard to get that lot to do anything.

The president can get congress to do stuff, if your a good president you can pretty much convince congress to do anything.

[ub3rman123]

 

Since you cannot uninvent the damned things, I am trying to figure out a way that will minimise their potential for disaster. So far all I have is not letting anyone else get them as part of the plan. I certainly do not trust Iran with them.

 

 

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