20 year old mexican sent back home after living here since 6 weeks old.

[Psion]

Sometimes I wish I would run for president, despite the total fucking pain in the ass it would be to do it, just to fix all the shit in the country. Even with my lack of political knowledge, I could probably run the country 100000x better than normal politicians. I'd probably ignore the other branches of power as best as I can and say fuck it, executive orderga, screw the bipartisan votes on legislature, I'll order a bunch of changes and hope that the drastic changes would bring about such a kick ass four/eight years that the outrage over the possibility of going back to old laws would block any chances of either political party from changing anything over fear of sinking their party for good. Some things I'd do:

Go over the fucking budget, wipe out all useless unnecessary expenditures, cut the military and defense spending down to around 100-150 billion or so (seriously, china spends less than this and with 4x our population, and you don't see them struggling over invasions)

Use all that freed money to go half to removing the national debt, which in four years, if you got 300 billion or so toward it, would almost totally wipe it out. the rest would go to either medicare/SS/etc budgets if they still need fixing, and the rest to the sciences/betterment of humanity, such as eradicating the world of certain diseases like malaria, renewable energy, and sustainable resources, along with aid to other countries in need to spur their economies into action, resulting in more trade and markets. by supercharging our civilian development, we create lots of jobs and specialize in markets, which means more domination, just in a good way.

Remove DADT completely, replace it with something fair to gays, bisexuals, lesbians, intersex, and transsexual individuals. That includes partner (oh sorry, MARRIAGE) benefits.

Make marriage available regardless of sex to adult individuals, and put federal laws in place preventing discrimination on sexual identity or orientation, along with current anti-discrimination laws.

Streamline the immigration process, and probably remove the caps on immigration, and make sure to prosecute people who try taking advantage of immigrants trying to apply, like fake lawyers and the like. also put in protections for illegal immigrants so they get paid fair wages and protections, and probably grant amnesty to the ones already here. hey, if theyre contributing to taxes and the economy, theyre hardly freeloading now are they? yes, they will take more jobs, but the increased consumption will also create higher demand, which means more jobs for the taking.

Raise taxes a bit. Seriously, it's way too low, happy hour is over people, we need a bit more taxes. In exchange, the new taxes would go toward actual benefits to people in the form of better medicare, SS, education, etc.

Add some new classes to schools as well. Kids need to learn mental exercise, just like physical exercise. Teach them the basics of releasing stress through mental focus or meditation, how to use rational thinking, basic philosophy and ethics courses. Also teach them the basics of budgeting, cooking, and other self-reliance tools so people aren't leaving school without any knowledge of cooking healthy food, not spending more than they got, and other such disasters in waiting that sap our resources and make life miserable for everyone. And improve physical exercise by expanding programs to be more interesting to kids. Not all kids love basketball, or swimming, or anything, why not add more options such as martial arts? if everyone finds some form of exercise that they actually enjoy and do, then we lower cost of healthcare and improve people's standard of living.

Change the military's laws to something resembling the year we are currently in. Seriously, the amount of stupid victorian era laws in it is abominable and is a detriment to our troops. Oh, and let's stop getting in these fucking wars, lets make everyone else so happy at the US they'd never dream of attacking us.

Come to think of it, we need classes that teach about the cultures of other countries, religions, etc. Seriously, the lack of knowledge people have over religions other than their own is disgusting. ATHEISTS know the most about other religions, wtf is up with that?

Focus our technology on renewable energy sources, sustainable materials, and improving the quality of our air, water, and earth, along with reducing noise and light pollution. I miss seeing the stars, I shouldn't be able to count the amount on one hand where I live.

Making companies stop wasting all their money on useless paperwork and make buisnesses more efficient, and workers less stressed out. Happy and healthy workers make productive (and happy) workers. Also clear out the nasty paperwork the government has to something more streamlined, and force all documents to be reworded in common language that anyone with basic english can pick up and understand.

Bomb the main quarters of the GOP and democratic party and bomb any other developments they make until they take the hint and go away. <.< (I wish)

make sound scientific proof a requirement of any new laws, peer reviewed by a large pool of independent science facilities relevant to what the legislature is about, drawn at random. basically, a science jury duty. and make sure that the lotto can't be fixed, so people can't "influence" organizations. possibly make which facilities that review the legislature secret until they make their decision.

Nuclear disarmament. Those weapons need to be wiped off the face of this planet, no one should hold that much power, especially not when we only got one home to live on.

reorganize the political system so that parties get equal time and resources, so that it doesn't fall into the whole two party, neither really different from each other, trap again.

And that's all I can think of at the top of my head in 5 minutes or so. -,-;

Oh yes, and as an added bonus, I'd probably be the first openly gay president, and probably the first mexican/american one. <_<

[Celeste]

Not that what you're saying doesn't sound good, but this thread is focusing on the matter at hand, a 20 year resident(practically born here) was deported to Mexico.

[Zilong]

Spoiler: President is not a dictator

[Celeste]

OH SH- LOL, how did I miss that?

[Lane]

Mexican Gay president? You'd be impeached so fast lol, that's worse than being Black and Muslim or whatever rednecks want to impeach Obama for.

Speaking of deportation, I was born here but my parents are foreign, but they've been here for over 30 years and are citizens so they can't be deported :D

[Alleya]

Spoiler: President is not a dictator

What are you talking about! The president has the power to make any change he wants regardless of the constitution or practical limitations, and with complete disregard for the actual implications and consequences of his actions, because when you're president idealism is law! Don't you remember the '08 elections? The president even controls gas prices! It's a glorious country.

But in response to Psion, I too look forward to the day that Hugo Chavez becomes president! Your vision is inspiring. Especially the part about suppressing dissent through force of arms. That's how the founding fathers knew america should be.

[Zilong]

I think you're confusing the position of president with chancellor.

I do wish we were lead by one though, we could use kickass highways in this country.

[Despain]

Wow, kids life went from having a future, getting ready to further his education, to becoming a stereotypical mexican laborer. Jesus that sucks... I can only imagine how sad, scared, and infuriated he must feel all at the same time...

The law's the law. Shit sucks.

[Psion]

there's laws and then there's laws. Moral laws should be shot dead and their memory wiped off the face of the planet, while conventional laws are SUPPOSED to be there to protect ethical laws and the rights of everyone to be happy, unless there's a compelling reason due to physical or mental harm to others. (note: not moral harm, who gives a damn what your god thinks, get in the back of the line with the rest of the gods opinions)

Saying the law's the law, so deal with it, is one of the biggest banes of humanity. It's laziness, pure and simple. Take it from a guy who practically makes being lazy his job. When someone beats down on you, you don't just take it. Some fight back, some defend, others run away, but no one with the capability to do so just takes a beating unless they were the one's that wanted it.

Don't just stand there and take it. Move to another country, raise a stink over stupid laws that bring harm to others, partake in nonviolent civilian disobedience, work on campaigns to deal with it, raise the issue to other people so that they know of the problem, but do SOMETHING.

This is our future we're talking about. It's not going to get magically better because our parents and grown-ups will take care of it. We are the ones who are responsible for what's to come, and no knight in shining armor is going to come and take us to happy land. We gotta do things now. every moment that passes, lives are lost from flawed laws, flawed minds. Do you want to go down in history as a person whose refusal to act on injustice resulted in the deaths of thousands or more, like the german civilians who lived during Hitler's time didn't act to stop his heinous crimes? At least they had an excuse of having their lives threatened if they tried to stop it!

Stop acting like a bunch of loafers and start acting like heroes!

[Zilong]

[BerenTebogo]

Sure is 13 year olds drawing anarchy symbols on their hands during math class in here.

[Kuya]

lol

[Psion]

Sure is 13 year olds drawing anarchy symbols on their hands during math class in here.

Actually, I'm more of a socialist than anything else <_<

If the system was actually any good, there wouldn't be any call coming from me to destroy it. I'm just going by logic here. System full of fail = get rid of it, replace with system full of win.

But if you can't tell the difference between wanting anarchy and wanting people to get up and do their duty to fix a system riddled with flaws and counterproductive measures, then I'll just have to take a page from Kuya's favorite line and say:



lol

[Plow]

eradicating the world of certain diseases like ..., renewable energy, and sustainable resources

hey, just like bush!

[Acturus]

Sure is 13 year olds drawing anarchy symbols on their hands during math class in here.

I miss the good ol' days.

[kuronosan]

Yes, because this kid probably won't hold a grudge against us or anything.

Hey guys, you know what our biggest export is these days?

Terrorists.

[Kuya]

Don't you mean imports? kekeke

[Plow]

Start claiming illegal aliens are terrorists, that'll get those republicans on your side somehow.