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You are President/Prime Minister - what are your first commands.....

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I would create jobs by building giant domes over every city to keep the rain out.
 
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(For US forumites - Wales is a country and not the stars of Star Trek IV) ;)

... kinda knew that. Wales doesn't = Whales. :rolleyes:




My first order... OFF WITH HER HEAD! I mean uh... nevermind. :shifty:
 
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"I'll be back in 4 years to run for re-election. Don't make any new laws while I'm gone."

No joke.
 
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Every single Jedi is now an enemy of the Republic (or, in my case, The Monarchy:p)
 
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In democracy the 'leader' isn't able to make arbitrary commands and have them carried out. I think what this question is asking is what if you are a supremely powerful dictator, what are your first orders?

I might demand my morning tipple served in an ornate golden chalice, while I browse through a brochure of the world's stately homes and castles, to choose myself a new place of residence.

Then I'd hire the best makeover people to transform me into an evil Ice Queen, complete with rabid huskies to pull my sled over Nordic snows towards my new home.

And from there I'd plunge the world into darkness. :)
 
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Throw money at scientists to develop reversible sterilization procedures for both sexes.

Once perfected, immediately begin sterilizing every baby at birth.

License parenting and make all wannabe parents pass IQ tests, parenting courses with strict exams and pass socialization classes.

Make law that anyone wanting to be parent has to apply, pass all of the above, then get their sterilizations reversed. They are allowed to have two children, then must submit themselves to be permanently sterilized. Anyone not submitting themselves will be hunted down like dogs and their children put up for adoption by naturally and irreversibly sterile parents who pass all licensing.

Pray that the dumb are lost to the sands of time.
 
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* Prepare for a transition to the fairtax system to take place by January 1 2010
* Legalize the use of drugs
* Lower the drinking age to 18
* Abolish the Patriot Act or at least most of it
* Crack down on illegal immigration and secure our national borders
 
Re: You are President/Prime Minister - what are your first commands...

In democracy the 'leader' isn't able to make arbitrary commands and have them carried out. I think what this question is asking is what if you are a supremely powerful dictator, what are your first orders?
Lord Protector Ravescene makes the following demands:

1) Make the first of each month a public holiday for everyone. "National Cake Day" I shall call it. :)

2) Make floggings mandatory. Every Thursday, round at my place. :evil:

3) Bomb Doncaster with a tactical nuclear warhead, just for the hell of it. :bolian:

4) Ban Heat Magazine. :angel:
 
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Take back America.

If it were a year ago, I'd have said take it. Her Majesty/His Right Honourable would do a better job.

Today, prepare to meet some opposition.

If I were in charge, I'd make a law that states that if it can grow from the ground, it can't be illegal.
 
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I'd mandate a class system based on attractiveness, with one's class being represented by the amount of clothing they're allowed to wear.
 
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Make the first of each month a public holiday for everyone. "National Cake Day" I shall call it. :)

I like cake, so you've got my vote... but not if it's fish cakes. Potato cakes are good. :)
 
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Throw money at scientists to develop reversible sterilization procedures for both sexes.

Once perfected, immediately begin sterilizing every baby at birth.

License parenting and make all wannabe parents pass IQ tests, parenting courses with strict exams and pass socialization classes.

Make law that anyone wanting to be parent has to apply, pass all of the above, then get their sterilizations reversed. They are allowed to have two children, then must submit themselves to be permanently sterilized. Anyone not submitting themselves will be hunted down like dogs and their children put up for adoption by naturally and irreversibly sterile parents who pass all licensing.

Pray that the dumb are lost to the sands of time.

I'd just put poison in the water supply of "economically disadvantaged" areas, and in some rich gated communities. It would be 95% as effective. :)
 
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In democracy the 'leader' isn't able to make arbitrary commands and have them carried out. I think what this question is asking is what if you are a supremely powerful dictator, what are your first orders?

Oh you poor deluded fool.
 
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Make the first of each month a public holiday for everyone. "National Cake Day" I shall call it. :)

I like cake, so you've got my vote... but not if it's fish cakes. Potato cakes are good. :)
They'll be pretty cakes, of course. :D

In fact - LET THEM EAT CAKE.

Doncaster smells - the manager of my local team is from there and he's ghastly.
 
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Declassify everything that wouldn't put someone in immediate danger. (The identities of covert operatives, for example.)

And a lot of Americans know what Wales is - that was just our Village Idiot... er... President Bush. Poor Charlotte Church, having to talk to him.

Wales is in Ireland, right?

(I am kidding. :D)

Aha..!! :)

Wales is near Ireland.

And the UK is in the USA - we're the 51st state.
 
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