From /g/. If President of the US, what to do?

*Full audit of the Federal Reserve, and limit it's powers
*Bring back pre-1997 ban on prescription drug ads
*Get troops out of Japan and Europe
*Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act
*Decriminalize marijuana
*4 year terms for members of house
*Reform copyright laws to stop Disney and others from trying to
hold onto 80-year old cartoons
(25 year copyrights and 3 renewals.)
*Establish national standards for education, including programming

and science
*Put in a guest worker program
*Kill high speed rail initiative, money goes back to paying debts
*Create national medical schools
*End embargo on Cuba
*Stop steroid chasing in baseball
*Open up skilled worker visas
*Lower corporate tax to Germany's levels
*Cut subsidies to factory farms
*Cut subsidies to major oil companies
*Stop foreign aide to Israel
*Reform software patents
*Completely rebuild family courts
*Tax churches for land
*Greatly decrease prison terms for drug possession
*For those top earners, top 1%, they can name infrastructure projects built with their taxpayer dollars

>>19
It's one out of two extremes. Also, largely, the long-term effect of keeping government small-for-the-sake-of-small rather than smart; small-for-the-sake-of-small leaves the country wide open for abuse by letting RobberBarons-R-Us set up shop and exploit the people.

(as if big-for-the-sake-of-big is any better, the way they end up suffocating _all_ innovation rather than just that of how RobberBarons-R-Us can extort more money from people).

Smart would be to take the best from both, and tell the rest to eff off. For starters, a balance between government and market (as explained in >>7), where the government is only just about as far in as needed to keep corporations honest, but no further.

Yes, it depends on people _not_ being pigheadedly hell-bent on doing it wrong, which is one reason I'm not holding my breath.