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Q & A of the Day: What If You Were Elected Temporary Supreme Dictator Of America?

This is making the rounds today. Several good postings from Rachl Lukis and John Hawkins already.

Q — Suppose you were elected Temporary Supreme Dictator of America.

What are 10 laws you would pass/repeal or government programs you would create/tear down? (Assume that you are in office for however long it would take to do these five things and that any changes you make will remain in place after you leave office.)

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In no specific order:

  1. Term limits on Senators (two 6 year terms) and Congresscritters (four 2 year terms).
  2. Abolish the IRS and scarp the current tax system for a Fair Tax.
  3. Clean up the language of the second amendment to make sure that every single state understands that “shall not infringe” means “shall not fucking infringe.” That means no Gun Free Zones. That means no bans on any style of gun. Oh, and revoke all “Duty to Retreat” laws, and impose the Caslte Doctrine in its stead. The right to defend ones self, property, and family will be the highest law and right in our nation.
  4. Talking on the phone, texting, putting on makeup, and reading books while driving will be prohibited. Regular citizens will be ale to enforce this law without assistance from law enforcement (i.e. you can pull idiot drivers from their cars, take their phones and Blackberries from them and smash them on the concrete without fear of legal reprisal).
  5. Build a wall around San Francisco and cut off all federal funding of any kind. They’re on their own.
  6. Radically reduce and reform all government-funded social welfare programs. If you need welfare, it will be for a limited amount of time (1 year), and once you’ve accepted it, you are not allowed to reapply for it for at least 5 years.
  7. Tougher immigration enforcement. I’d use the National Guard to protect our borders. Anybody caught sneaking into our country will forever be prohibited from acquiring legal citizenship. End anchor baby citizenship. Go hard after employers who hire illegal labor. Require all law enforcement agencies to work with INS to help detain and deport illegal aliens that they arrest in the course of their duty. We may not be able to deport every single illegal that’s in this country — but we’d give it a hell of a try. And then bill their countries’ governments for our troubles of returning their citizens.
  8. Prohibit the burning or desecration of our nation’s Flag.
  9. If you root for the Mexican soccer team over the US Soccer team when those two countries are playing here in the United States, you have to go back to Mexico with the team when they leave.
  10. Require that every single state become a “right to work” state; no one will ever be required to join a union as a term of employment anywhere.
  11. Double the pay of the military (yeah, so I added an extra law. Whatta going to do? I”m the Supreme Dictator of America).

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | Trackback |

3 Responses to “Q & A of the Day: What If You Were Elected Temporary Supreme Dictator Of America?”

Ah, a peek into the garden-variety authoritarian’s mind is often illuminating.

Left by Pat on May 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pm

All good suggestions, Mr. Supreme Dictator, sir. I put up way more than 10 things a few weeks ago on my site, while asking for suggestions to Constitutional changes. Way more than 10, but like you, I was playing dictator and whaddya gonna do?

[Editor --- I read the initial post that you wrote and the excellent follow up post.

I most agreed with and appreciated Number 9: No taxes, of any kind, to be levied on current or former military members.]

Left by BigBadWolf on May 1st, 2008 at 7:43 pm

1. fine all employers harshly who hire illegal’s
2. valid ID to vote.
3. no more anchor babies. at least parent has to be American.
4. build and finish the wall along our entire border with mexico.
5. get rid of irs. go with consumption or flat tax.
6. term limits of two terms for ALL elected officials.
7. limit welfare benefits to a certain time limit. no work no benefits.
8. make prisoners do the work they used to, hey maybe they could do some of the work illegals do…wow what a concept.
9. increase the budget of nasa. it is a disgrace how little money they get. they are involved in some our most uplifting and human endeavors, and they operate on a shoestring budget, that would change.
10. we would treat the muslim terrorists just like we treated the nazis and Japanese in WW2. we would bomb them until they fell to their knees and cried for mercy or until no one was left. we did not care in WW2 if we killed military or civilian, and lots of innocent civilians were killed. we knew the only way to bring them down was to crush them totally and completely. we have lost our guts to do that anymore, and that is exactly why this thing in the middle east has dragged on for so long.
11. English as official language
12. schools would teach the basics, none of this political correct garbage. and the bad kids would be throw out of school or placed into classes with other misfits, their choice. no longer would the misfit drag down the other students who wanted to learn.
13. Tort reform. make the loser in court cases pay ALL costs.
14. make car makers produce cars that get no less than 30 MPG
15. Increase funds for alt energy like solar, wind, hydro..oil WILL run out one day. we are stupid for totally being oil dependant.
16. no pork allowed in ANY bill before congress. purely legislation in bills, no more pet projects..that would end.
17. get rid of all the ridiculous taxes like death tax, marriage penalty, inheritance tax, etc.
18. make health ins available for all. what I mean is nobody can be turned down if they go get personal ins and have existing conditions. ins will have to take them period. of course the person would pay, not free, but that would go a long way to this problem. then no one could say well I can’t get it..sure you can, go get it and pay for it. you won’t be turned down.
19. ban gay marriage outright. that ends.
20. and no foreign company will be involved with military contracts or civilian airlines.
21. it would be illegal to export a job that can be done here in America. I don’t care if it is cheaper to do elsewhere, that will stop.
22. lastly, the road blocks to third parties would be removed. no longer would they be treated any different than the two main parties. no more restrictive rules to keep them off ballots or out of debates. that would end. so finally the two main parties would have competition, and we the people would have a REAL choice and hope for change.

I could go on, but already way over 10.

Left by marc on May 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 am

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