Fix the government to revive the US. Assume you have complete contol for 1 year

[Asher]

Seems to me like you do as your told.

[DRoseDARs]

1. Round up all registered Republicans.
2. Ship them to Texas or Florida.
3. Nuke Texas and Florida.
4. Nuke them again, just to be sure.
5. Nuke them again, just for fun.
6. Problems solved.

[Blake]

I'd get all them guverment folk to learn some Buddhism. Strategies for solving conflict rather than creating conflict? You know? It'd be nice.

I'd also require the guverment folk follow the Buddhist Five Precepts particularly the 4th precept against false speech, which includes ARGUING. Lets get to problem solving guys, rather than just arguing about problems (and note: 1st precept, no killing. So the "lets kill some people" solution has to be taken off the table, ho ho ho. REAL problem solving, please).

Having solved the first hot-air problem, I'd probably move on to doing something about global warming.

[MarkG]

go to area 51, call the Vulcans then go on vacation

[DanielXY]

Sell everything the state owns --> cash in --> than go on vacation

[Heraclitus]

Go all out Nuclear power, instate universal healthcare, build a bigger fence on the soon much shorter US-Mexican border, give Texas and Florida independance.

Encourage investments of US companies into Mexico in the hopes of improving the situation there. Stay in Iraq just send many more troops in.

Partition Iraq into sustainable states, invade Turkey if they had a problem with the new Republic of Kurdistan.

[Heraclitus]

No wait this is too much work, I would gift the whole thing back to Britain, except Texas and California which would be become independant republics.


Oh, the Spanish can have Florida. And New Mexico can go to Mexico.


By 2020 I would be considered the best US president in history. Except by the guys in Florida and New Mexico.

[bipolarbear]

I'd make America join the EU and adopt the Euro as our currency.

[PLATO]

I would repeal every law that was not covered by a strict constructionist view of the Constitution.

I would recognize the inherent rights of the States

I would fire most of the government buracracy

I would install a strict constructionist litmus test for all SCOTUS justices and remind Congress that it was their job (andt the American people's) to change the Constitution and remind the courts that it was NOT their job.

Done

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by bipolarbear
I'd make America join the EU and adopt the Euro as our currency.

That could work too.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Asher
Seems to me like you do as your told.

Texas is Quebec with oil.

[Combat Ingrid]

1. Take off
2. Nuke the entire site from orbit

[Pekka]

Smash and rebuild. Name it Murica. Eat all the food and have all the women. Beat up the men. With my last day, I'd probably do nothing more since I already accomplished all I came to do.

[Kuciwalker]

Wiglaf's plan is solid

[Zkribbler]

Fix the government to revive the US. Assume you have complete contol for 1 year

Sorry. I don't think it can be fixed in one year.

We've spent 30 years digging ourselves into this hole. And much of it is now fixed in the American psyche: Immediate gratification--borrow money for everything. Demand things from government but freak at the mention of the phrase "higher taxes." Grab for yourself and to heck with everyone else. Assume your opioion is valuable even though you have no basic knowledge to base it on.

I've come to the conclusion that America peaked in 1973. We've crested the hill and are now on the slow, inevitable decline.

(I would love to be proven wrong.)