When I'm President, The Things I'll Change.

Ever since I first left America for three years and realized how poorly people from other countries seemed to look at the good ol' USA, and how bad I think the political system has gotten, I've added the US presidency to my bucket list.

Every day I eat, sleep, lift, and study in an effort to some day put myself if a financial situation where I can acquire my name and secure my way to the presidency in a route quite different than a typical politician, though not unfamiliar to the game altogether. Name recognition is the route I'm after.

When I'm president I've thought of a few things I'd like to see changed, and open them up for debate, and maybe let some of you plebes alter the ideals of a future US president. In no particular order:

Esperanto Second Language classes starting in elementary:

Esperanto is a created language that's kinda simple to learn in comparison to others, and can be vaguely understood by some people who don't even speak it as it uses a lot of familiar roots and affixes to create words, has set pronunciations for all letters, and grammar rules that lack the exceptions seen in English. It's estimated by some that a native speaker of romantic languages would take roughly 150 hours to become proficient enough to communicate easily with the language, which is incredibly fast if you know anything about learning languages. It's culture neutral, and would help foster cultural exchanges and ease communications between Americans and Europeans and Central/South Americans. It can also help with the absorption of other languages, so instead of being an end in itself, it could be a means to help one become multilingual, something that's rare for most Americans.


National legalization and taxation of Pot:

Hopefully this one will change by the time I'm president and it'll be one less battle for me to fight. Legalization means less money spent fighting it and more money from taxing it. Decriminalization right now would save Americans as lot of money as is. I do not believe legalizing it will cause an epidemic because anyone who wants to try it will try it anyway because you can easily get it on most city street corners as it is. I know I don't want to smoke pot now and I won't smoke it when it's legal. It's already been legalized in Colorado and look how terrible that's gone, right? They're on track to generate 100mil in the first year of taxation, imagine even half of that from all 50 states.


Legalization of prostitution:

Arguably the most difficult of things to change with American society being so prudish. The idea here is the same as the legalization of pot. We license prostitutes and create legal areas for them to work in. I came to this idea after seeing how poorly average streetwalkers are treated and how they're hunted down by police. It can be decriminalized and taxed to generate money, and keep money from leaving the country on foreign "sexpeditions." The idea behind this is people who want to use prostitutes will use them, and this is a way to protect both the prostitute and the buyer with mandatory monthly screenings required for license, safe houses to protect from violence against either party, and less anxiety for all involved. Texas alone spends almost 8million dollars a year housing prostitutes in prison, and the industry itself pulls in up to an estimated 30 billion a year. That's one hell of a national source of income if taxed and licensed properly. It also help individuals too. People may not like it but some have to turn to prostitution to get by, and legalizing it can help consenting adults of legal age get the money needed to have a reasonable life. It goes along with one of my firm beliefs that what these people do with their bodies is none of your f*cking business.


Super PAC Busting and Corporations are Not people:

I will bust the sh*t out of any source of large scale, unlimited "donations" to politicians. Nothing will be anonymous on this issue and I will make damn sure something like this doesn't happen again in my lifetime. We've allowed these people to make it perfectly legal to buy off politicians, and that defeats the entire purpose of a representative democracy.


National Legalization of Gay Marriage:

Again, who the f*ck are you to tell someone who can and can't get married? It's as simple as that, live and let live. This is another issue I shouldn't have to worry about by the time I'm president, I hope.


National Weight Training Requirements for all Teenagers:

Requiring all teenagers to have classes in weight training is a great way to improve the shape of America from early on. It saves money in medical costs, is much safer than almost all sports Americans commonly engage in at high school, and does wonders for self-esteem. All beginners can see rapid gains in strength, and with that can be urged to continue. Striking at the age of puberty, the training can have the highest effect on young males with their almost freakish rate of growth.


Closing Tax Loopholes:

Cracking down on this is extremely important. People have come to see taxes as evil instead of a necessary part of government. With the way the current government works, I'm not surprised people distrust and hate taxes when they don't see as much benefit from them as they should and the wealthy pay a disproportionate amount. Closing tax haven and last in first out accounting loopholes, among many others, are things that must be stopped, it costs the American government over $100 billion a year.


Military Changes:

America doesn't need as large a standing army as it has. We could easily cut the number in half over time and not have to worry thanks to technological advances. Also, America will never again invade and occupy another country. It's costly, stupid, and makes people hate you even more.


Legalizing the Sale of Organs:

This one I can't really believe isn't a legal thing yet. Relying on the altruism of others is a fool's game. We have a shortage of organs needed and desperate people will turn to underground shady alternatives. Properly screening donors for an extended period of time removes the risk of "faulty" organs, gives donors time to think over the procedure and its consequences, and protects both parties. It also offers a final safety valve on your financial issues if the need becomes great enough. Once again, it offers people a choice of what to do with their lives that is no one else's business.



Those are just some of the things that are on my agenda. There are other things, but mostly just paradigm shifts instead of laws. Nothing will change if we don't change the views of the people in general. I want to help people see the government as something working for them, which is how it's supposed to be. I want to cut down on the litigious nature of the American people, by encouraging people to be less gigantic pussies and by simplifying all laws in general. I want to encourage the new generations to honor the spirit of a law more than the letter. I want to encourage tolerance of all people regardless of skin color, sexual orientation, nationality, religion (or lack thereof), or profession. I want to encourage the American people to stop looking for the easy way and extol the value of actual hard work. I want to make people realize that we are not all equals, but we all deserve basic and equal rights and opportunities, that while we may not all make ourselves into the next Bill Gates, Russell Wilson, or Tom Hanks we all have the same chance to make something of ourselves by working hard. I want to kill the new almighty god above all: The American Dollar.

I want to encourage these things by leading by example and making use of the indomitable human will we can all possess.

So come at me f*ckers! What would you do if president? What do you agree or disagree with?


Edit: some typos.

Esperanto is pointless because it never picked up as universal language. You need to be president of the world for it to work, and even then I don't see the point, english works well enough in today's world.

The opening song for FFXI is sung in Esperanto~

As your new self-appointed campaign manager, I would suggest not opening up future appearances with an Esperanto initiative.

when I'm president. Things I'll change:
-improving the economy
-invest in research of technology, science and medicine
-give NASA an actual budget to do stuff with
-veto every bill that has unnecessary *** projects congressmen want
-improve border security
-push for flat tax
-push for higher standards in education
-national yoruichi day

um, it's higher now than it has been since 94, and they don't have the expensive cost of the shuttle program to float.

CHANGE GUN' COME

I enjoy that people think the President of the United States is equivalent to a feudal European monarch circa 500 CE.

Ignoring that I think half your ideas are just bad, Brain, you could accomplish most of them far more efficiently by becoming rich. If they actually cared to, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet (among others) could facilitate several of the things you want. The POTUS could do almost none of them because most of the changes you want made are under the umbrella of the legislative branch.

I'll have to think about how I'd change the world given god-like powers and/or a shipping container full of industrial-strength hallucinogens.

While Esperanto hasn't taken off as a Universal language yet, if the United States pushed it as a national curriculum, I'm fairly convinced the world would adopt it quickly. Particularly because it seems so much easier to rapidly learn and be functional with than English. Not only that, but it doesn't actually need to be widely used to serve as a means to the end in encouraging multi-lingualism.

It's widely believed that people have a harder time learning their first new language than subsequent foreign languages. While there aren't too many studies on it, people have used Esperanto to accelerate the acquisition of other languages. This could also have something to do with it making extensive use of bases common in romantic languages.

Also, just because it's first on the list doesn't make it a priority of mine, it's simply a change I would like to make because it seems like a simple change with a lot of potential benefit.

Yeah, figuring out a way to make it rich would be a much better use of your imagination. Unfortunately for those who want to do good with power, it usually takes being bad to obtain it.

disclaimer: good and bad are obviously subjective subjects, and only serve as getting the idea across, not set in stone.

If I was President I would do away with redundant letters in the alphabet, and saying the words "epic", and "ironic" in the wrong context will be punishable with consequences that will never be the same, and using the words "yolo" and "swag" will get you deported.

Free punch and Pie.

No, it has no benefit. Everyone around the world uses english which is an easy enough language and by now is so wide spread that it's pointless to overthrow it. Chinese is the only language that has more speakers and that is only cause chinese peeps are everywhere.

You have pie and punch?

Triple it anyway. It's a good investment.

Yes.

I'd agree that we need to get off this rock, but even I as one who loves space and could easily see the benefits of exploring the final frontier: just not sure if tripling the budget would help improve anything. Honestly as smart as some of those people are, having to do things on a budget actually produces results.

One thing I'd like to change in the Federal laws: make all Federally funded programs use computers with open source software at least for 50% of the uses. Would reduce costs overall, and help reduce the reliance on M$.

got our vote

Could you specify more on what exactly you think are just plain bad?

I am certainly idealistic, but I'm not one to simply let things happen and am willing to go to such extremes that if you think I'm crazy now that I'm quite sure you'd make it your life's mission to see me in a padded cell if I were to reveal to you.

For example, by the time I die I would love to see voting play a more prominent role in society, mainly by reducing power of representatives and using technology to let people have more control through popular vote. The idea of the representative Government was great when we were divided into towns all up and down the eastern coast and got around in horse drawn buggies, but now we have problems where representatives do not represent who they're supposed to and have a means for virtually every single person in the country to represent themselves.

Of course I'm also all for a law requiring individuals to pass a f*cking IQ test to have a vote.


I don't see anything I've proposed as requiring king-like authority either. I'm saying I can sway the people through example, charisma, and American celebrity worship to encourage these changes, and very few would require any kind of force.

You can still have the same limits on the budget for each project, just increase the number of projects. I want my damn space elevator already.

The amount of money that goes into "defense spending" is ridiculous.

A friend of mine is an engineer who got a job with a high-paying government defense contractor right out of undergrad. He's incredibly smart and definitely deserves to earn as much as he does, but he'll be the first to tell you that the government is wasting a lot of money on him (and dozens of other engineers in his department alone).

The reason it's a waste is because, although he is qualified and innovative enough to handle all sorts of responsibilities, the company hardly has him doing anything at all. He ends up finishing his work every morning and then sits at his desk, bored out of his mind waiting for permission to maybe do the next thing. Even the work itself is boring because it's way below his ability level. He can't even bring a phone to play with because of the security clearance! XD They give him a high five-figure salary for sitting around wishing he had something to do. It increases by ~1% every year unless he gets a promotion, which carries a 5-10% boost each time (but with practically no extra responsibilities).

Everyone all the way up the food chain knows about the inefficiency/waste problem, but no one cares because hey, it's the government's money! Apparently their management jokes about it a lot, too--when the government decides to defund a particular department, the managers just chuckle as they shift the excess personnel to another department where they'll have even less to do (but still pull in the same wage). Long story short: be an engineer!

"National Weight Training Requirements for all Teenagers"
I would have been pissed had I had to do that in highschool.

Do you even lift bro

Within the framework of the new aid strategy quantifiable planning and cluster targets should be an essential requirement of 360° feedback programmes.

So to bite on the topic...if I ever got to re-establish the kingdom that my family once ruled(I'm actually blood related to a certain extinguished royalty), these are the things that come to mind:

Focus money on clearing by whatever means possible the fields where we cultivate stuff. You have no idea how toxic is our crop(and we give it to the whole world, so enjoy).

Re-build the scholar system, from elementary school to university. Redesign the paths students take, add elective classes and cut on the many useless wannabe degrees that clutter universities. Incentive sports and other side-activities.

Legalize homosexual marriage and adoption, recognizing the status of family to homosexual couples for everything that relates to it.

...and many more!

Vote Seha for queen! The new flag shall be a golden dragon on a red field.

unintentional irony hitting me pretty hard here

Cap congressional offices like the presidency is, no more senator for life and pay for life crap. Senators are just as lazy, if not more, than the people they accuse to be lazy that utilize federal assistance programs when they get paid whether or not they do anything or even are in office anymore. Same for the benefits like medical and other "perks". On the flip side, make drug testing mandatory for assistance programs.

EDIT: I would add these to what the OP has already listed.

Well I will say it would be an uphill battle, I'm not willing to say it has no benefit, as I believe it has the ability to enhance learning if nothing else. It doesn't have to serve a purpose as a Universal language so much as be a tool to familiarize someone with language acquisition which is the primary reason I've ever shown interest in it.

The bonus would be if it became more widespread and actually usable outside of the small circle it current calls home and I suppose the new generations of Americans who studied it, coming off the assumption it were made a curriculum.

Would have been interesting to be taught proper lifting technique in high school.

My high school pretty much just crammed us into a room with weights and told us not to hurt ourselves.

That's almost exactly how it went for me as well.

the costs associated with this are so against your stance/views, i honestly don't get why this is even on your agenda lol.

English is already the world wide language with many of the countries of the world already teaching other languages.

also, instead of forcing people to take an IQ test to let people express their right to vote, why not restructure our school system and invest in our education instead?



@ seha
you won me over with the new flag alone.

Seha for prez queen 20XX