IF you were president of the USA for one day, what would you do?
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Is it even possible for changes to be made in one day in our government?  I would declare the day a national holiday, proclaiming that everyone should have fun with their family and friends.
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I have a dream.  My dream is that one day Thomas Jefferson will rise up out of his grave and p!mpslap GW Bush.  Then he shall spit in the president's face and say, "Listen up, moron.  The end does not justify the means.  Your day-to-day actions add up and affect the big picture.  Sacrifice small liberties today and you're closer to killing freedom tomorrow.  Now go get yourself the complete works of Aristotle and don't come out of your room till you've finished reading them cover to cover."
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i would gladly let Clinton be president again.\nthose were the days.\nnow the U.S. is a joke!
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I'd give it all to charity!  What good would it do me anyway in just a day.  I'd be spending that day getting in touch with the people I love.
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I would bring the military home from around the world and disband it. I would keep the navy and air force at same level. The Army and the Marines I would cut drasticly and make them into a lean mean defensive machine. There would be no more policeing the world. We need to protect our own borders more then we need to change governments. Lead by example. There would be a huge savings from this and I would reinvest that money into building infrastruture right here in America. We need that. That would create jobs to take care of the loss of military jobs. \n  Next thing I would do is fix the health care system. I would take it right out of the private insurances hands and put it in as a part of government. It is in crisis right now and we only have to look as close as north of the border to find a system that works. \n   Third I would overhaul the education system. As much as any federal can do. We are pooring good money after bad into this system, Year around schools to fully utilize the resourses would be one of the suggestions I would have. Another would be to pace the learning according to each students capability, I have knowledge that most students come out of school with very few life skills. So with the knowledge that the country needs people with all sorts of working skills I would target according to skill and inteligent level.\n   Taxes, I would raise the tax on the very rich back to pre Bush era. I would take that money and reinvest in jobs which always creates more jobs.  \n    5th I would leave my options open, depends on needs the first 4 are important to the country because the economy is what fires everything else.  But I do think it would involve illegal alians, send them home.
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Ask the President\nBye
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Move ALL US Forces back to the US and put them on the border. Start building things in the US again. Close the UN and send it to Paris without a US ambassador. Stop trade with China-we are just funding their military. Make immigrants learn English. Put Ronald Reagan at Mount Rushmore.\n\nInvite Monica over for pizza.
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End all welfare. Reduce taxes. Restore liberties and freedoms of the people. Repeal the 17th Amendment. Imprison all the corrupt Congresspersons. Kick the UN and all those tea-sipping diplomats out of USA. End US participation in NATO. Stop trade with China.\n\nExtend capital punishment to other crimes. Re-institute corporal punishment. Expand the Border patrol. Implement the Fair Tax. Eliminate automatic citizenship to children born of illegal aliens. Institute harsh punishments for employers of illegal aliens, and step up enforcement.\n\nRemove all supreme court justices who used foreign laws to make rulings, and appoint ones who know the Constitution is the only law of this land. Outlaw all government employee unions.\n\nThat would take the full 24 hours, no?
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Give our people the food, shelter and medical care they need...honor our armed forces for their sacrafices...fly everywhere to see my family and friends...buy them some houses, etc....uh oh, started thinking I won the lottery or something. Seriously, I would make sure people had the basic needs in life and service people didn't have to struggle for their benefits. I'd work really hard at rebuilding our reputation with other countries. I'd push for certain rights afforded to married people be given to a person of one's choice and not to a person's gay or lesbian partner. Also, I would try to make people see that our freedom's do not make it okay to make others suffer...e.g. religion. Because we have freedom to religion in our country does not mean freedom to kill if that is what a religion teaches.
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Email anyone in the U.S about how you can help find weapons of mass destruction.  NSA will monitor it, and send Condi over to visit.  Put on the tunes, something soft and romantic, and cook a nice (affordable) meal.  Answer the door naked.\n\nGet'er, tiger!
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I would SO like to have " the hardest working man in show business" in the White House today.  He'd take far fewer vacations and you KNOW New Orleans would get better attention. \n\nBush.... well he could sweep up after the show.
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I would send in legislation to remove the Electoral College, and have 1 vote per American.
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I would go and buy a nuke off the black market and\n use it. My husband, and many other members of my family are in the military.
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Study USA History!\nEspecially hist of your Presidents!\nExcept for one odd, rest had / has been betraying the nation.
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Hello\n\nIf i only had one day left to live.... I would spend it with my family  telling them how much they mean to me. \nI would read  a book watch my fav. movie. \n\nBut when never know when we are going to leave our friends and family behind. ]\n\nI think that everyone would love to know when there time is going to be up. But true to tell you just never know!
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Go ahead and take your pot-shots.  He's only our President.\n\nChoose Karma.  Golden Rule.  Whatever.  Buddy, it's going to get you.
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I would outlaw ignorance by penalty of death.\n\nBoy would that leave room for the rest of us, and Yahoo Answers would lose about 95% of their users. If you have posted an answer with a misspelling, because you did not use spell check, or you simply write like an unintelligent moron, then you would be in that 95% that would be gone. Load them on a bus, and off they go, straight to death row, no appeal!\n\nBecause I have a low tolerance for ignorance!\n\nThe question was "If you were elected president today what would be your first act and why"\n\nSo this would be my first act, there would be many more to follow some listed in the other good answers.\n\n\nEDIT:\nAfter looking above (at the first 23 answers) I was surprised to see so many well written answers. That is very unusual. However I did notice one that used the word president were they meant precedent. Get on the bus!\nOne that misspelled illegal as "illiagal" Get on the bus!\nOne that misspelled legalize as "legalise" Get on the bus!\n\nIf you referred to yourself as "i" instead of I or if you wrote "id" instead of I'd. Get on the bus!\n\nIf you separated words only with punctuation. Get on the bus!\n\nThis is American Yahoo so obviously he meant President of the US. If you were not born in America, you are not eligible to be President, so if you you were not born in America and you answered. Get on the bus!\n\nOlcay the first seat would be yours!