"What Would You Do If The Political Situation Was Left Up To You?" or...

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I would take all defence department money and spend it on baking. Then I would hand out baked goods to everyone. Maybe I'll leave the army a few bucks- but only to go buy me some flour- after all they got like tanks and cargo planes and things. They could bring back heaps of flour.

[Overcast]

I'd fire every single supreme court judge. Force them to complete an occupation with any other judge that wants entry and rewrite the situation so that they only are allowed a six year sitting.

All requirements to run for any office over the age of thirty would be reduced to thirty.

All offices of the legislative branch would be forced into the a proportional representation voting system, dumping the plurality. There would be a year long period of education on what that meant to all of the US before it would be executed to bring in the new Congress.

Do pretty much everything Fifthfiend said, with edits as above for the supreme court and perhaps less leniency on victims of torture if they were guilty of something notable as long a no further torture is used.

If possible systematically invade all land south of the US and work out some kind of fusing agreement with Canada to become the United Americas.

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Overcast

I'd fire every single supreme court judge. Force them to complete an occupation with any other judge that wants entry and rewrite the situation so that they only are allowed a six year sitting.

All requirements to run for any office over the age of thirty would be reduced to thirty.

All offices of the legislative branch would be forced into the a proportional representation voting system, dumping the plurality. There would be a year long period of education on what that meant to all of the US before it would be executed to bring in the new Congress.

Do pretty much everything Fifthfiend said, with edits as above for the supreme court and perhaps less leniency on victims of torture if they were guilty of something notable as long a no further torture is used.

If possible systematically invade all land south of the US and work out some kind of fusing agreement with Canada to become the United Americas.

Well crap I don't have anything to add but...

Send everyone in Guantanamo Bay home, unless they were A. actually demonstrably guilty of something, B. not tortured.

Uhm... They'd still be in there unless you can define why they can't go home from B?

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Jagos

Uhm... They'd still be in there unless you can define why they can't go home from B?

Guilty of something AND not tortured.

Like, if we can't prove you're guilty of anything, we let you go.

If we tortured the shit out of you, even if we think you're guilty of something, we let you go.

EDIT: Looking at that second clause, I think that maybe, if we can prove that you did something significantly bad, that we can prove in a trial, without using evidence obtained via torture, then maybe we don't let you go.

[Osterbaum]

Originally Posted by Seil

- Immigration law will not be as... demanding as previous, and will be done according to a person to person basis. Like "Doctor with an outstandingly blank criminal record? Welcome into the country!" "Repeat offender looking for asylum? Try America!"

Isn't this pretty much what's wrong with immigration laws now? "Yeah hey, we'll take all those people who will be of clear use to us! No matter that the countries of origin are then only left with the cases we didn't want and are drained of those in their society with any education!"

e: Also my answer to the original question is obviosly socialism.

[Osterbaum]

A functioning Space Program! Mars colony by 2030!

e: And send a probe to the Gliese 581 system.

[Nique]

I don't know if I would actually do this specific thing but I think it's a neat idea;

'Clean House' on state and federal laws to weed out irrelevant legislation and refine effective laws in order to 1) make the criminal justice system more effective and 2) weed out frivlous cases and lawsuits.*

*Not the MCDonalds coffee thing cause that was legit. As has been stated. Shut up.

[The Murderer]

Can i kill anyone who complains?

[synkr0nized]

Calling it now -- if you've seen one "The Murderer" post, you've seen them all.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

Calling it now -- if you've seen one "The Murderer" post, you've seen them all.

I sincerely hope that isn't the case, but even seeing the name threw up a flag. I am unfortunately inclined to agree with this assessment.