For Political Lovers: If you were to run for president what would be your platform?

[Kritish]

So, basically you want to be able to get stoned and molest children without that whole "law" thing getting in the way. Got it.

jag

You make it sound like a bad thing.

 

[gap5ewl]

Hmmm....a few thoughts:

• Kill the "No Child Allowed To Excel" program and get teachers back to actually teaching our kids rather than preparing them to regurgitate competency exam answers. Special attention to math, sciences, English and music and art programs. We are falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to preparing our kids for success, thereby endangering our own future as a nation.
• Map out a proper, realistic exit strategy for Iraq with the help of people who actually understand the culture and environment there and in the rest of the Middle East so as to minimize negative impact and make the most of the situation overall.
• Kill all the lobbyists. Corporate America runs our government right now and that has to end. They aren't serving the public's best interests. They're serving their own.
• Economic reform that takes the middle and lower economic classes into consideration. The wealth in this country needs to start being redistributed back out to them.
• Legalize marijuana and regulate and tax it just like tobacco and alcohol. I'm not a pot smoker or even a real advocate, but we've wasted far too many dollars on the "War On Pot" and convicted way too many young people for a drug no more evil than alcohol it on the "three strikes" laws, which have overcrowded our jails and prisons even more than they are.
• Prison reform. Far too many luxuries like cable television, gaming systems, specialty food menus, internet and computer access, etc. have been afforded to them. Prison shouldn't be a place people want to go to, which is not the case currently for many people. The people in prisons should be made to work hard, get an opportunity to educate and reform themselves and pay their debt to society. It shouldn't be a glorified dorm or country club.
• Repair our foreign relations policies. Our government has acted like complete jackasses for the past eight years, where the rest of the world is concerned. We have a big public image problem with our peers that needs some serious attention through diplomacy and a bit of humility. We aren't the world's police, though there are instances where it makes sense for us to provide help, such as in Darfur, not for political or economic gain but because it's the right thing to do for humanity.
• Focus on problems at home. We have problems with mid to high level jobs being offshored en masse. That has to stop. We have homelessness, drug problems of epidemic proportions with crack and meth, education system issues, race and economic class issues, and so forth. Instead of being the world's police each and every chance we get, these things need to be addressed.
• Fix the budget. We went from the largest economic surplus in history to the worst deficit we've ever seen in a little over two years when Bush entered office. We must start addressing this debt immediately.
• Restructure social security so that it will be truly viable for the future.
• Health care reform. Costs for insurance coverage and deductibles, medical care and prescription drugs are astronomically high, and for no real reason other than the folks running the show can get away with it. Something has to change to make medical care and prescription medications more accessible to the American population. I don't know that socialized medicine is the solution, but a task force to investigate the situation and come up with some solutions needs to be formed
• Protection of our citizen's civil liberties and free speech. No more wire tapping schemes. No more NSA Carnivore programs. No more camera systems all over Manhattan. No more squashing people's political views just because the differ from mine. Everyone should have their say in this country, even if they are wrong.

In short, let's fix this place!

jag

I'm voting for this guy I would also put in there stop funding those crazy religious groups who believe they'll go to heaven if all the Jews go to Israel, all the gays are abolished, they keep lying about global warming, and turn this country into a religious fascist state. Yes you can practice your religion but you will not sit there and turn it into a hateful cult by exploiting the very foundation of it. Seperation of church and state damnit

 

[jaguarr]

I like jags platform.However-Its much too radical for the majority of the population.Somehow I can imagine his candidacy ending with Kevin Costner pointing to some footage and repeating the words,..'back and to the left'

But then we'll drown him on a public stage on live television in retaliation for making "Waterworld". The sweet irony of it all will really carry me through in the swing states.

I'm voting for this guy I would also put in there stop funding those crazy religious groups who believe they'll go to heaven if all the Jews go to Israel, all the gays are abolished, they keep lying about global warming, and turn this country into a religious fascist state. Yes you can practice your religion but you will not sit there and turn it into a hateful cult by exploiting the very foundation of it. Seperation of church and state damnit

jag

 

[VICTORVONDOOMX]

Not for making The Postman? After drowning, resucitate him and kill him again for that.

 

[jaguarr]

Not for making The Postman? After drowning, resucitate him and kill him again for that.

How about we run him over with a mail truck? I'm all about giving the voters what they really need.

jag

 

[Kritish]

I wish Jag would run.

 

[VICTORVONDOOMX]

How about we run him over with a mail truck? I'm all about giving the voters what they really need.

jag

Then you've got my vote!

 

[gap5ewl]

Not for making The Postman? After drowning, resucitate him and kill him again for that.

At least the book was good.

 

[EdRyder]

...........
I own Open Range on DVD...........
...........felt like I needed to confess that............I like that film..Im sorry

 

[VICTORVONDOOMX]

It's a darn fine film, Ed. It's OK, let it go.

 

[jaguarr]

...........
I own Open Range on DVD...........
...........felt like I needed to confess that............I like that film..Im sorry

As your President, I would vigorously defend your right to have bad taste.

jag

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

I'll vote for jag,you have some great ideas bro. i honestly think you should runsomeday!

 

[mrsparkle]

So, basically you want to be able to get stoned and molest children without that whole "law" thing getting in the way. Got it.

jag

The kids would vote for me

 

[jaguarr]

The kids would vote for me

Kids can't vote. You fail.

jag

 

[Mysterio]

Kids can't vote. You fail.

jag

neither does the populace; the electoral college elects the president.

 

[jaguarr]

neither does the populace; the electoral college elects the president.

And how many kids are in the electoral college? My point still stands as long as we're arguing details.

jag

 

[Mysterio]

And how many kids are in the electoral college? My point still stands as long as we're arguing details.

jag

it is the states electing the president, not the people. theoretically, states can pick any group of people to cast its electoral votes - some old ladies' bridge club, for example. not sure if there's an age restriction on it, though.

 

[jaguarr]

it is the states electing the president, not the people. theoretically, states can pick any group of people to cast its electoral votes - some old ladies' bridge club, for example. not sure if there's an age restriction on it, though.

All I said was that kids can't vote.

At any rate, anyone who has a little bit of formal education around U.S. government already knows what you're stating.

jag

 

[Victarion]

Party: Independant

Platform: Bring our troops back home. Work on securing our borders, begin by shutting down sanctuary cities. I think setting up a wall is an asanine idea. It should be a mine field, all the way. To placate the ACLU, put up warning signs in English and Spanish. Have registration checkpoints around the mine field. Abolish whatever allows an illegal immigrant's child to become a U.S. citizen by being born in the U.S. Citizenship is a right reserved for our legal residents, who went through the tedious process of obtaining legal status.


-Morzan

 

[Mysterio]

Party: Independant

Platform: Bring our troops back home. Work on securing our borders, begin by shutting down sanctuary cities. I think setting up a wall is an asanine idea. It should be a mine field, all the way. To placate the ACLU, put up warning signs in English and Spanish. Have registration checkpoints around the mine field. Abolish whatever allows an illegal immigrant's child to become a U.S. citizen by being born in the U.S. Citizenship is a right reserved for our legal residents, who went through the tedious process of obtaining legal status.


-Morzan

definitely militarize the border with orders to shoot anyone coming across. that'll put an end to it pretty damn quick.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Wu-Tang! Wu-Tang is for the children!

 

[Kritish]

Party: Independant

Platform: Bring our troops back home. Work on securing our borders, begin by shutting down sanctuary cities. I think setting up a wall is an asanine idea. It should be a mine field, all the way. To placate the ACLU, put up warning signs in English and Spanish. Have registration checkpoints around the mine field. Abolish whatever allows an illegal immigrant's child to become a U.S. citizen by being born in the U.S. Citizenship is a right reserved for our legal residents, who went through the tedious process of obtaining legal status.


-Morzan

definitely militarize the border with orders to shoot anyone coming across. that'll put an end to it pretty damn quick.

That's nice, while we're the UN will label us a rogue nation and we'll face sanctions like with South Africa. You to scare me. :

 

[Mysterio]

That's nice, while we're the UN will label us a rogue nation and we'll face sanctions like with South Africa. You to scare me. :

you would defer to the UN over the Constitution? the UN is a powerless body. no nation on earth is considered rogue for defending its borders. your lack of thought and substance scares me. you constantly toss out all of these ridiculous ignorant claims without anything to back them up. this is just another example.

 

[EdRyder]

Put in a mine field??!You cant possibly be serious.

Lets do nothing for twenty years(one side of the extreme)
And then we'll put in a mine field(the other side of the extreme)

 

[jaguarr]

Haha! Machine guns and field mines. Good lord.

jag