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HemlockGrey wrote:
as we'll be using science & logic to show the stupidities of the bible so the kids can see it for what it is, a fairytale.
The government cannot do that. You cannot have public schools tell children that the Bible or any other religious book is false.
So the Americans have a law against telling the truth. :P Now how dumb is that?
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Sir Sirius wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:
as we'll be using science & logic to show the stupidities of the bible so the kids can see it for what it is, a fairytale.
The government cannot do that. You cannot have public schools tell children that the Bible or any other religious book is false.
So the Americans have a law against telling the truth. :P Now how dumb is that?

Your version of the truth, thats why we have freedom first, 'truth' second.
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Falcon wrote:
Sir Sirius wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:The government cannot do that. You cannot have public schools tell children that the Bible or any other religious book is false.
So the Americans have a law against telling the truth. :P Now how dumb is that?
Your version of the truth, thats why we have freedom first, 'truth' second.
Eh, now you are claiming that science and logic are subjective. :lol:
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Falcon wrote:
Sir Sirius wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:The government cannot do that. You cannot have public schools tell children that the Bible or any other religious book is false.
So the Americans have a law against telling the truth. :P Now how dumb is that?
Your version of the truth, thats why we have freedom first, 'truth' second.
No, it is the objective truth. Your personal delusions do not objectively exist. The Bible is false.
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Cut all funding to religious schools

Remove all forms of religion from the government

Legalize human cloning for medical purposes(ie organs)

Equal civil rights for EVERYONE( the govenment should protect everybody regardless of ethnicity, religion sexual orientation etc, abd no matter what you are, there will always be some jackass in the bible belt that hates you)

Get rid of all stupid laws

Make evolution, a long full year course, on just evolution a mandatory class in all public and private schools

End all envolvment in Isreal, Money saved goes to education

Increase pay for teachers, and give more money to the public school system

Legalize prostitution. I will leave Marajuana(sp) up to the people in the states

Give us back freedom of speech, and the rest of the bill of rights. I will have no fascists in my country

Decrease our dependence on petroleum

Anyone, so long as they can make the grades, can get into college(like the german system)

Tax the hell out of churches

Nationalized healthcare(modeled after the german system, it works better than canadas system)

All in all America will become the pluralistic country it was originally intended to be. where free thought is encouraged and everyone is well educated. Sure taxes will be raised but with the taxes on churches....
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Tatterdemalion wrote:Use the USA's nukes to eliminate 9/10ths of the worlds population, solving overpopulation and world hunger. Hooray!
The US nuclear arsenal would be hard pressed to kill 10% of the world fool.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Eliminate welfare and other social programmes.

Allow police to be more brutal in arrests and crowd control.

Wall off the ghettos and let them kill each other for food.

And make all copyrights indefinate. :twisted: (die, you fucking socialist pirates...)
Err the constitution has the key word "limited" when referring to copyrights. People should be able to do whatever they wish after a set period of time. Besides after a few years corporations don't really make that much money anymore. Fine lets make it 20 years for all copyrights, 20 for regular patents, and 2 for software patents. I mean copyrights get more time than patents. WTF? That needs to be fixed.

I would also like to make the government protect minority opinions more. Make representation in the senate based on political alignment. For example 20% of people in the country belong in party A, so they get 20% representation, similar to Israel's political system, with the exception that it's bicameral and the house of reps would be as it is. Or the multiple party idea could work

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God Emperor wrote:You killed us all, your worst than me. Good job.
Yeah, but on the other hand, I HAVE succesfully solved world hunger, brought about world peace (With the regretabble exception of cockroaches) ensured said peace for thousands of years, solved the problem of over-consumption and brought about indiscriminate and merciless equality and generally made the world a much happier place for whatever life managed to survive my nuclear holocaust, which is a lot more than any of you can say. :lol:
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Eliminate Political Correctness.

When pledge is said in school/military, the person has a right not to say "God"......I hate those fucktards that think that since the pledge has "god" in it that we must not say it at ALL....MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

Edit: Eliminate welfare policy for any illegal

Start propaganda war against Democrats b/c they're bastards and liberals.

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Sea Skimmer wrote:
Tatterdemalion wrote:Use the USA's nukes to eliminate 9/10ths of the worlds population, solving overpopulation and world hunger. Hooray!
The US nuclear arsenal would be hard pressed to kill 10% of the world fool.
Don't be so negative, I'm sure other nations will be only to happy to help once I start bombarding them with nukes, and with any luck they'll be enough fall out to finish the job.

Hmm, guess that means I can add unilateral disarmament to my list to.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Plutonium, you sound like such a immature socialist pirate...
Why do I always earn the wrath of people like Spanky. Anyways ok after thinking about it make software copyrights expire after 5 years since the software is probably obsolete anyways, but still usable. If you wait 20 years, it won't even be compatible, so making binaries public domain will be pointless.

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I would focus on paying off the national debt, and force through a constitutional amendment forbidding the government from borrowing money.
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I would lower taxes on small businesses, to help them grow
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You could pay off the national debt with the military budget in like two years.
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Ted wrote:You could pay off the national debt with the military budget in like two years.
you could pay it off with the welfare programs in under 1 year then...
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Ted wrote:You could pay off the national debt with the military budget in like two years.
Yes, but Greater Montana would like that now, eh?
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I have to take this opportunity to say...VOTE FOR BENJAMIN ALLEN IN 2020!
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I would pass a Late Term Abortion ban. You can get 'em the first six months, but abortions after six months of pregnancy to me are morally repugnant and do amount to murder.

I would implement efforts to reform medicare and medicaid, to ensure the program's continued survival. A limited perscription drug package would be included, and citizens would have the option of diverting their social security taxes into either a general SS account or a Personal Security Account. Those making over $80,000 a year would NOT be eligible to receive medicare and medicaid benefits.

Capital Gains taxes would be dramatically reduced or outright eliminated. The government is simply not entitled to tax the profit a stock holder makes from stock sales. The government would also not allowed to tax the tips for waitstaff. The government can tax regular wages, as it can implement a minimun wage, but any income beyond that the government is not entitled to tax.

I would also revoke the tax-exempt privelege to churches who are determined to be politically active, through support of Political Action Committes, get out the vote campaigns, or support of individual candidates. School vouchers to religious schools would be allowed, but there will be strict curriculum standards determined by the government that would have to be met by the schools before they receive any government funding.

Defence budgets would remain steady. SDI research would move forward and accelerated. The nuclear missile force would be reduced by half. Testing would be allowed for newly developed devices, and to ensure that existing devices are functional and working properly. The ability to fight a two front war would be maintained, but greater emphasis would be put on developing fast reaction forces that can be deployed into a combat zone in short notice.

Maintain current support of Israel, and increase intelligence and military cooperation with them in counter-terrorism efforts. We are basically fighting the same people (Islamic extremists), and an Israeli victory against the extremists is also an American victory.

Saddam Hussein must be expelled from his position of power in Iraq. His record of human rights violations, and his supporting of terrorism makes him a serious threat to peace in the middle east. His unique postition of being head of state expands his destructive capabilites to a large degree.

Allow the South Koreans to diplomatically engage the North in efforts to return nuclear monitors there. North Korea remains one of the worst proliferators of sensitive missle technology and nuclear technology, along with Russia and China. Stronger US pressure must be brought to bear in order to bring about the many changes needed to ensure that sensitive technology does not fall into the wrong hands.
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HemlockGrey wrote:You have been elected President of the United States on your own 3rd party ticket. Amazingly, your party holds a Congressional majority, and, also amazingly, the entire Supreme Court has just retired.

You are so popular that you are guarenteed a second term election, as long as you do not do anything stupendously stupid or harsh.

So, how do you run the US for these 8 yrs?

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1. TORT reform.

2. Remove America from the current tax code.

3. Implement a national sales tax on non consumable goods (I won't tax food). Remove all other federal taxes.

4. Since I am a third party guy and got into office, I may not have to reform campaign finance. But if it still needs some tweaks, then I do it.

5. Push for term limits on Congress. Also push for a law that prohibits current office holders from running for two different positions at once. If you want to quit Congress and run for President, then QUIT the Congress first.

6. Increase the intern staff and have a private "study" room installed next to the oval office. :D
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I couldn't be serious as a president of the US. But, in brief, as a RULER of the country:

1) My foreign policy would consist of my upraised middle finger. I would unilaterally start a war with anyone who had a problem with that.

2) My domestic policy would consist entirely of slashing the bureaucracy into small pieces and eliminating millions of unnecessary government jobs, and then pouring that money into education and the military, in that order.

3) The military's spending practices would be reviewed by New York shopkeepers. Any flaws or idiocy in accounting that they are able to detect would be fixed immediately.

3) Any special interest groups asking for money for the environment or any minority, religious group, sexual orientation group or cultural interest would be ignored. If it can't take care of itself, tough noogies.

4) Any established group making trouble for the environment or any minority, religious group, sexual orientation group or cultural interest would find themselves in deep shit with me, personally.

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I'd reform the patent system which is as it currently stands a giant joke. No more submarine patents and no more patenting of extremely basic things would do for a start.

Software patents would disappear completely they have proven to be plain useless. if they had been around during the foundation days of computer science we wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING without paying massive licensing fees. You want to sort that data? $10,000! etc
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1.Remove all funding from religious schools. Funding them is a tacit endorsement of religion.
2.Legalize abortion for the first two trimesters. After that point you should just carry it to term and set it up for adoption.
3.All forms of drugs will be legalized and heavily regulated. Anyone can sell them, if they have a government license to do so. Otherwise, 20 yrs. Also, minors will be given 1000 hrs. of community service for possessing drugs.
4.All victimless crimes will be legalized.
5.Assisted suicide will be legalized.
6.People who file frivolous lawsuits will be jailed for wasting government time and money.
7.Raise teacher salaries, and teaching standards.
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1) Supercharge the progressive tax system, showing no mercy to the wealthy and corporate entities.
2) Kick the military budget in the balls.
3) Ship conservatives (fundie and hardcore economic) back in time to WW2 Germany so they can be among true friends
4) Shut down the CIA.
5) Exile Bush Jr and Sr. Put Reagan in a mental institution along with Bill and Hillary Clinton
6) Lift all sanctions on Cuba.
7) Release all prisoners currently jailed for drug related crimes.
8) Legalize MJ and tax the shit out of it.
9) All wiggers, Linkin Park fans, and other various posers shall be humiliated in public while naked
10) Block tort reform, so we won't see 433666538776 more disasters along the lines of the Ford Pinto.
11) Institute hardcore enviromental protections that will make even the most green liberal pinko commie blush
12) Boost social services, put gov't employees to some real use like garbage cleanup
13) Severe tax cut and laxed regulations for small businesses to give em a helping hand
14) Limit the size of corporations (we don't need companies with more income than european countries)
15) Legalize and tax the shit out of prostitution (yeah, i know wtf)
16) Free condoms
17) Free birth control~ eliminate abortion
18) As long as we don't do sneaky shit and stab every nation in the back, we'll get along with em just fine
19) We'll put capitalism and socialism in a fishbowl and they'll masturbate, fornicate, fuck, knock boots, and have sex (teehee) and they'll spawn the new political theory called Bedasterdation, which is what will replace our current republic.
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The Black Jesus wrote:1) Supercharge the progressive tax system, showing no mercy to the wealthy and corporate entities.
Most people have to warm up a bit before totally wrecking a nation, but you're up for it right off, good job.
2) Kick the military budget in the balls.
Great, you'll need to after improvement #1
3) Ship conservatives (fundie and hardcore economic) back in time to WW2 Germany so they can be among true friends
Put me on the first boat out, even socialist Europe will be better than America when you're done with it.
6) Lift all sanctions on Cuba.
Birds of a feather...

11) Institute hardcore enviromental protections that will make even the most green liberal pinko commie blush
First you wreck the economy, now the food production? #12 on your list had better be 'execute 250 million people' or you're going to have mass starvation.
13) Severe tax cut and laxed regulations for small businesses to give em a helping hand
Whats the good of tax cuts on small business if you wiped out their customer base with environmental regulations and massive taxes on the wealthy\corporations
14) Limit the size of corporations (we don't need companies with more income than european countries)
Don't worry, #1 will have destroyed all corporations due to taxes.
18) As long as we don't do sneaky shit and stab every nation in the back, we'll get along with em just fine
You'd be better hope so, what with no military.
19) We'll put capitalism and socialism in a fishbowl and they'll masturbate, fornicate, fuck, knock boots, and have sex (teehee) and they'll spawn the new political theory called Bedasterdation, which is what will replace our current republic.
We've already got that, they're called 'third world nations'
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Falcon wrote:
The Black Jesus wrote:1) Supercharge the progressive tax system, showing no mercy to the wealthy and corporate entities.
Most people have to warm up a bit before totally wrecking a nation, but you're up for it right off, good job.
Wow, antfucker. I wasn't being serious, but I'll address your flamebait with something appropriate.
2) Kick the military budget in the balls.
Great, you'll need to after improvement #1[/quote]

Hi, how ya doin.
3) Ship conservatives (fundie and hardcore economic) back in time to WW2 Germany so they can be among true friends
Put me on the first boat out, even socialist Europe will be better than America when you're done with it.[/quote]

Technically socialist europe isn't doing too badly right now~ I don't like the EU being ghey though
6) Lift all sanctions on Cuba.
Birds of a feather...[/quote]

I'm not familiar with french artistry lingo.. do tell?

11) Institute hardcore enviromental protections that will make even the most green liberal pinko commie blush
First you wreck the economy, now the food production? #12 on your list had better be 'execute 250 million people' or you're going to have mass starvation.[/quote]

seems like you'd rather have the whole world radiobasted.... BASTARD
13) Severe tax cut and laxed regulations for small businesses to give em a helping hand
i had sex with a cherry tree[/quote]

Well now, i can go back to my fried egg nog
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