You're a single issue candidate for Prez

[mar]

Here are the rules:

You're running for President of the United States of America.

You can only run on one issue.

You have to seriously believe in this issue.

It can be anything but you get extra points for the frivolous.

I'd just like to see a discussion about things that truly concern Americans--things they really believe in--that don't concern God, Guns, Abortion, Gay Rights or other traditionally divisive issues.

Here's my platform:

If I'm President I promise to decommission the One Cent Penny.

Vote for me!

 

[njcapt]

This might be too serious, but I would make dam sure that there would be no long term budget deficits. Maybe craft a constitutional amendment allowing no more than two years of emergency deficit spending followed by the same amount of revenue neutral accounting. That way, a president would have to either campaign for reelection on what he plans to do to erase the deficit, or have a balanced budget plan. Not like the endless deficits this "republican" administration has instituted (color me puzzled, but I always thought that fiscal responsibility was a keystone of the republican ethos).

OK, or maybe a farm - type subsidy for micro-breweries. Whatever.

 

[chawbein]

FLAT TAX. NO EXEMPTIONS. EVER.

OR

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS

 

[Immelman]

Preservation of Constitutional Rights for all Citizens.


I can't lose... that encompasses many issues all in one: liberty, patriot act nonsense, guns, immigration.

 

[N49185]

I would have to say putting God back into schools, and other areas would be my top priority.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

separation of church and state

 

[Benhuntn]

Presidential Position

I have two promises...not one.
1st I promise to give everyone the same medical care that congressmen and women enjoy and second I promise you all the same retirement. Now how can I loose? Look at what they get. A senator gets full retirement after one term and congressman full retirement after 5 terms...which is 10 yrs. Medical care...they get the best treatment often at our most prestigious military hospitals.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Higher wages for pilots.

(Are there any other issues?)

 

[Wiggums]

Re: Presidential Position

I have two promises...not one.
1st I promise to give everyone the same medical care that congressmen and women enjoy and second I promise you all the same retirement. Now how can I loose? Look at what they get. A senator gets full retirement after one term and congressman full retirement after 5 terms...which is 10 yrs. Medical care...they get the best treatment often at our most prestigious military hospitals.

Sure, enjoy your 60% marginal tax rate. Oh, wait, we'll just tax the rich, that'll bring in the revenue we need.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: Re: Presidential Position

Sure, enjoy your 60% marginal tax rate. Oh, wait, we'll just tax the rich, that'll bring in the revenue we need.

Would you guys quit being serious and start fooling around???

(Jeez, they'll be arguing about the Bible next... )


How about this for an issue: tax credits for Flightinfo.com posts.

(Send those campaign contributions to Typhoon for President, PO Box 1244, Geneva...)

 

[bigD]

I think that since chicks get Valentine's Day, men should get a day to call our own too. So I propose a day where the women get to do the planning, spending, and work involved in celebrating this day together.

Instead of buying us flowers or candy, they'd buy us power tools, lap dances, grills, booze, etc...

Instead of dinner and a movie, she'd fetch the beer as we watch the game.

The day would be a "nag free" day. No bitching about ANYTHING.

And finally, and most importantly, unlimited BJ's.


Thank you. Thank you.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Institute a constitutional ammendment mandating the death penalty for all drivers using the left lane for anything other than passing.

 

[Caveman]

I promise to abolish the IRS and all income taxes and replace it with a federal sales tax of 5%.

 

[skyking1976]

Legalize marijuana and tax it like cigarettes.

National budget=surplus

 

[bart]

End all entitlement programs, every last one of them.

Medicare... dead,
Social Security... dead,
AFDC... dead,
Food Stamps... dead,
NEA... dead,
Welfare... dead,
Farm subsidies... dead.
All the others I missed... dead.

Need help, call your relatives, local charity, church or God forbid, work your way out of it.

 

[Dubya]

Hugh Jordan for President!!!

Dammit man...you have stolen my platform. Need a running mate?

There should be mines planted in the left lane that immediatly explode when a car slows under 65. Semis? Don't even think about passing.


W

 

[DC4boy]

close borders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[njcapt]

Institute a constitutional ammendment mandating the death penalty for all drivers using the left lane for anything other than passing.

Awwww, I wouldn't kill them. I'd just make them clean a mile of breakdown lane with just their tongues.

 

[enigma]

If elected, My first act in office will be to officially declare Texas women the official women of the US of A.

 

[enigma]

On a more serious note. I'd outlaw speeding tickets. If the LEO can prove dangerous driving, so be it, but if all they've got is one poor slob, speeding down a lonely stretch of interstate with no other cars in sight, screw em.


If that's too radical, how about 90mph as the limit?


enigma