The WHAT WOULD YOU DO? thread

I am looking out my office window and can see 7 driveways from here--there is a Japanese made car parked in six of them.

I am also pondering the trade deficit and the fact that the U.S. has one lawyer for every 300 or so Americans while Japan has one lawyer for every six or seven thousand Japanese.

Therefore, as a benevolent dictator who believes in free trade, I decree that we will continue to import Japanese cars but order Japan to take one of our lawyers for every car imported. Pretty soon they'll be as screwed up as we are and that should take care of the trade problem.

Re product liability, manufacturers will be required to list any known hazards associated with their product. Otherwise they are to attach instructions for the proper use of the products and indicate any other use of that product may be dangerous and users will use it for any other use at their own risk.

Then as McG suggested, if somebody gets silly and tries to use a product for other than advertised and is injured, they'll deal with it. Ditto for people who trip over speed bumps or fall down the escalator or get tangled up in their own shoe laces at Macys. Unless there was no way for the customer to discern that a hazard existed, the customer will be due no compensation for any injury.

This, along with product liability reform and malpractice reform should free up enough billions to pay nurses and school teachers a lot of extra money.

you would have to close both houses of congress as well as the whitehouse.

Does it have to be recommendations for "the country", or can we comment on others? :wink:

Tax reform should rein in congress and the White House. It is a fact that the more they have the spend the more they will spend. Limit the amount they spend and limit the kinds of things they can legally spend it on, and again the nurses and school teachers will make out like bandits.

See? Ignored, always ignored! :wink:

Oh never ignored msolga. I tried to word it to encourage anybody to participate for their own country, but by all means comment on the others.

Welcome to the Netherlands (with the excemption of two or three minor details) !

Oh wait, you mean the US...

Oh good! My suggestion is to give all politicians a compulsory truth drug. To be taken under supervision!

Hey I could go for that. It could be used to enforce my dictum for truth in political advertising up there.

There are actually a few other things I mentioned that exist in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands has a much better political system than the US.

But don't take what I said above too seriously, almost all were flippant and many were outright parodies that I'd not dream of.

Oh shoot Craven. You had to go and put in a disclaimer. Oh well. Actually I liked some of your ideas.

I just had surgery in my side... I have stitches every where and
G*D DAM**T Cav... you made me laugh so hard I think I blew them all!

THAT is coming out of your campaign funding.. PERIOD end of story. You will paaaayyyyy!!! hahaha

My idea for changing teacher / student ratio is mo-better thought out then I explained! hehe

Better teachers = better students
better students = higher expectations of learning in primary schools
advanced learning = less uneducated population.
higher education = better companies
better companies = more jobs.

etc etc etc etc...

I think if you want to change the top. You have to create a stable bottom. America's bottom is the low expectations of its students and higher expectations of its college students. I think that is a little backwards. You cant complete college successfully if you learned SQUAT in public schools....

Amen Shewolf. And toward that end my dictate will be:

1. Students who choose to drop out of school will
be obliged to join the workforce in a job of
the parent's choice. Until the child is of age,
the parents will be required to make sure
he/she is either in school or at work and
otherwise at home or under supervision of a
responsible adult.

2. Persons become eligible for a drivers license
upon receipt of an honorably acquired high-
school diploma.

3. Any school that issues a diploma to a student
who does not have a reasonable ability to
read and write, who does not have a working
ability to do at least simple math, and who
does not have a reasonable grasp of history,
government, geography, economics, and
philosophy will be closed.

Holy crap... some of you have PROBLEMS.

Well Just, as absolute dictator, you have authority to tell us what should be. Go for it.

I have many problems. I can list them alphabetically or numerically...
take your pick

I think when it comes to high school drop outs , they would have a VERY limited work force placement. McDonalds...sure...McDonalds manager? Nah. 7+ bucks an hour is too much. Yeah, im evil so what! Hehe. But come on.. high school is free for christs sake. WHY drop that? >ahem<
I shouldnt talk. I too once dropped out of high school. But now have my masters in medicine. Still.... I dont have alot of room to talk.

I think my second week in office , I would cement this claim to seperation of church and state. Religious laws...or OPENLY religious based laws ( have to change my verbage here ) would be swiped from the board. I DO mean abortion laws...Like crav said.. free birth control and NO church organization is going to get thier grubby hands on that law. Ill chop 'em off!!! So Catholics beware... and be glad IM NOT in office...

I think I will make that bullet proof glass bubble for me to live in now

Foxfyre

Just a wee modicom of truth in any spect of politics would be a huge improvement!

How about this, we all just share the white house and everyone gets a turn for one day and we all rotate for 4 years until we have this country where it should be . Naked, free, and drunk. Hehehehhehe

1) Institute flat tax
2) Outlaw any and all abortion after the 1st trimester unless a doctor certifies it is necessary to save the life of the mother. All such certifications to be reviewed by peer groups and if the group doesn't agree the abortion was necessary to save the mother's life, the doctor's license is suspended (countrywide) for a period of two years. Second offense and the license is revoked.
3) Sizeable increases in military pay and benefits, to be paid for by cessation of all government spending on the arts, and farm subsidies.
4) Legalize all drugs and tax usage heavily
5) Use drug tax income and savings from discontinued war on drugs to increase government investment in science and technology (particularly space exploration, alternative fuel sources and medical research) by at least 500%
6) Mandate permanent chemical sterilization of all repeat sex offenders.
7) Mandate temporary sterilization of all recipients of welfare
8) Institute a tax on religious institutions with exemptions for charitable works only.
9) Use tax revenue to fund drug education and rehabilitation services
10) Strike down all affirmative action laws
11) Outlaw the teaching of Creationism in public schools
12) Reopen the Chappaquidick case and jail Teddy Kennedy for negligent homicide
13) Massive crack down on illegal immigration and the employment of illegal aliens
14) Establish English as the national language
15) Require Spanish, as a second language, be taught in all schools from
first to 12th grade.
16) Legalize prostitution; regulate and tax
17) Tax internet porn sites
18) Use income to guarantee a computer and high speed internet access in every household in the country.
19) Decrease the drinking age to 18
20) Outlaw the Death Penalty for all but drivers who change lanes without signalling.
21) Institute a voluntary National Identity Card system whereby those agreeing to registration will be subjected to minimal security screening and those that do not to maximum screening.
22) Institute loser pay procedure in all civil law suits
23) Limit all collectable damages in Med Mal suits to Economic providing Doctor sued has agreed to cap his/her income at some number around $200,000 per year
24) Conduct nationwide referendum on legality of gay marriages.
25) Exile Michael Moore to France