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Miss Doronjo February 28th, 2011 10:45 AM

You've been elected president for a week!
 
So lets say...at your current age, you've been elected president. But just for one week! What would you do during your reign? Like, if you wanna try to help your country, or maybe make new holidays, etc. Stuff that...a president would do!

ShinyMeowth February 28th, 2011 12:14 PM

I would enforce proper use of grammar and spelling to everybody in my country having access to the internet. Failure to comply by those terms would result in heavy fines.

PlatinumDude February 28th, 2011 4:28 PM

If I was president, then I'd make weekends start on Fridays. I'd also help the country with its national affairs.

~Darkness~ February 28th, 2011 7:33 PM

I would help public schools in my state. Our governor took a lot of money from our schools so we dont have as much money anymore :(.

Cooker February 28th, 2011 7:37 PM

Longer recess for everyone!

Dumbo Decus February 28th, 2011 8:35 PM

Free icecream, duh. ;3

President just can't really make things happen just because they want it, though. So... yeah. =/

Rai February 28th, 2011 10:05 PM

I would legalize gay marriage in every state (or at least try to).

HinaBaby March 1st, 2011 1:56 AM

I'd probably announce a one week holiday as well. XD

Elite Overlord LeSabre™ March 1st, 2011 5:19 AM

Eliminate all college student loan debt.

Exile everyone who's currently on my bad side out of the country and strip them of their citizenship.

Rewrite the budget so we fund stuff that's actually important (like education and healthcare)

Outlaw all automobiles shorter than 200 inches in length

Try to survive the week without being assassinated.

mondays suck March 1st, 2011 9:06 AM

The president in my country is, while head of state, a purely representative figure, the only thing he can actively do is, I think, vetoing laws. So if the rest of the government would come up with some kind of garbage law, I would veto it, and apart from that probably not do a lot.

Sammi March 2nd, 2011 4:16 PM

If I couldn't resign? I'd go hide in a corner and cry, to be honest. I'm not much for politics, and I never ever want to be president, even for the week. I'd be the worst. president. ever. :(

If I couldn't go into hiding, I'd probably just conduct business the best I could. No need to make fancy laws or anything. I wouldn't want to screw over the country.

Eucliffe March 2nd, 2011 4:23 PM

I'd turn down the chance.

There are much more people out there who'd do a better job, and I'd be under a lot of stress trying to resolve the crises that began in 2000-2008.

Shanghai Alice March 2nd, 2011 4:24 PM

For a week?

I couldn't do anything. There'd be a gridlock in the House and Senate, purely to prevent me from getting crap done.

I'd use my presidential status to try and have Japan send me a few goodwill gestures.

Also, the money'd be nice...


Greedy?

Perhaps. It's American politics. What else could I do?

King Gumball March 2nd, 2011 5:22 PM

I'd fly in classy jets overseas for a week long holiday XD And I'd buy my self a small pet monkey :3 And buy a huge house with a maid. And then I would probably be kicked out of politics forever.

But I would also donate heaps of money to Africa and try to set up a school there before the week is out.

Steven March 2nd, 2011 5:35 PM

Assuming I could pass any law instantly (which I know isn't reality):

1. Legalize marijuanna and place heavy taxes on it.
2. Legalize prostitution and brothels, criminalize pimping, with heavy regulations and mandatory health checks. Before you jump down my throat, my logic is this: It's going to happen whether or not it's legal. Might as well make it legal so you can tax it, while making pimping illegal, and make brothels legal so there wont be hookers on the streets.
3. Legalize gay marriage.
4. Legalize gay blood donations.
5. Make it easier for people to change their legal gender.
6. HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!
7. Pass legislation that would put tons of money into green industry and research to help rebuild our economy, with very VERY strict regulations making it so all of it has to be in America.
8. Legalize off-shore drilling. I'm all for getting rid of oil all together. But, due to the crisis in the Middle East right now, our gas prices will go up. So will everything else. So we need a way to combat that.
9. Let big businesses fail. I am not going to save AIG simply because it supplies my insurance. I will do what every other business does when they lose insurance, go to a different company.
10. Make March 28th National Mother Monster day.
11. List the Westboro Baptist Church as a terrorist group.
12. Deport Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
13. Sell Alaska to Canada, so Palin can't run for any US office.
14. Create a three party system, because Republicans and Democrats are too split to get anything done effectively.

Pokepal17 March 2nd, 2011 6:40 PM

Change the education system, immigration laws, and make sure there were better quality food, products, homes etc. :3

Oh, and I'd lower the prices on a lot of things. :3

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire March 2nd, 2011 6:49 PM

Not counting that congress would proably gridlock my policies... I would
1) Carry out Education Reform
2) Secure our south and Northern boarders so prevent drugs from coming in as well as illegal immigration.
3) After securing our borders (I would be so happy if it only took a week to do so...) then I would carry out Immigration reform
4) I would create a Flat tax
5) Go to Japan on Air force One...

twocows March 2nd, 2011 7:51 PM

Do away with victimless crimes, clean up corruption, restore peoples' civil liberties, and finally, hand over the reigns to Ron Paul.

Cherrim March 2nd, 2011 11:34 PM

I'd ditch the CRTC, make sure the big telecom companies actually start competing instead of sitting on a stale market, ditch HST to go back to GST+PST, vandalize my inevitable wikipedia page, and then probably step down. I don't want to be in politics. D: Too many people judging what I do.
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Originally Posted by Landorus (Post 6489350)
13. Sell Alaska to Canada, so Palin can't run for any US office.

I'm pretty sure the only way Canada would agree to that is if you guys took Palin back first. Just saying. :(

Master Bait March 3rd, 2011 4:22 AM

Free hugs and kisses for everyone! :D

BBA_Beyblader_321 March 8th, 2011 8:07 PM

I'd try to get it across that democrats and republicans shouldn't shoot eachother down like rivaling countries. That there is no such thing as "world peace." And that in order to fix, and unite people in other countries, we need to unite ourselves first. The United States isn't truely United. At least not in the definition of the word.


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