You are a dictator for five minutes

A lobbyist with Norquist levels of insanity has gotten your government to agree to have one random citizen a year spend five minutes as dictator, and you're the first selection.

The rules:

• You may make as many as ten new policies.

• Your policies go into effect immediately, but are subject to public referendum after three months and review by the legislature after a year. This way you benefit from political inertia unless you have incredibly unpopular ideas.

• You may not contradict more than two elements of your constitution, radically restructure your government directly (no decreeing your socialist parliament is now an absolute monarchy or vice versa), or alter in any way the terms of the emergency dictatorship.

• You may not make laws specifically to benefit yourself or the group of former dictators as a whole.

• You will be paid a handsome consultant's fee for your time, enough to live comfortably until your economic policies catch up to you.

What are your decrees?

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Soldiers are required to do some precision drilling

There is a national "Greet strangers with a Groin Attack" day.

Politicians are required to wear clown costumes when talking about the economy from now on.

There will be a tax on urine and other human wastes. (This actually happened)

The homeless will be escorted into cordoned off slums, food will be shipped in every now and then, making them a dependent nation.

St George's day is now a national bank holiday.

Citizens will be required to have a certificate proving they know how to defend themselves before going abroad in the interests of their safety.

People who prove to be idiots and general discontents but not to the extent of a criminal record will be put in previously mentioned slums.

Finally, everyone is given a penny every day they go without mentioning the number 2.

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."

My policies are;

1 Get rid of the stupid "people get to be dictator for a few minutes" rule
2 Take the rest of the day off

edited 9th Aug '12 12:35:07 PM by Talby

The dictator may not modify the terms of dictatorship in any way. You may however choose not to participate.

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My policies:

Every 20 years, Congress will be subjected to a "total recall" confidence vote. If Congress does not achieve at least 51% confidence, every current member of Congress will be ineligible for reelection for the next two election cycles (four years until eligible to run for House, twelve for Senate eligibility).

Congress has a four-term limit.

Supreme Court justices have a 20 year service limit.

Election campaigns may not accept any monetary donations, but will not need them because:

Campaign advertisements will be required to be aired for free, but are only allowed for two weeks before the election, and only as a list of pros and cons produced by a nonpartisan government office.

Elections will now be a three-choice instant runoff.

Citizens will be required to pass a test on what the relevant issues and the candidates' positions on them are before they are allowed to vote in an election.

Citizens may take the naturalization test to qualify for an experimental online direct democracy daily referendum and to be able to run for office at state-level or higher.

The Secret Service will be required to leave a chocolate mint on everyone's pillow one night a month.

Welfare is replaced with a program to keep the poor afloat while incentivizing them to get (better) jobs. In order to pay for it, successful program graduates will have half a percent of their income skimmed for the first year after leaving the program, taxes on the top one percent of earners will be raised to half a percent below the record high, and one quarter of the military budget is herewith siezed.

edited 9th Aug '12 1:30:43 PM by TParadox

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Sorry, are those YOUR propositions? I'll assume they are and only the conditions of the Original Post apply.

So.

1.Declare a 15% raise of the minimum salary.

2.Launch a road-maintenance campaign.

3.Legalise marijuana.

4.Nationalise the oil and energy-producing companies present on national soil.

6.Abolish tuition fees for education.

7.Raise the salaries of the secret services agents by 20%.

8.Dismiss the current chief of the secret services.

9.Nominate the second-in-command of the secret services as head of the secret services.

10.Declare elections.

The Great Northern Threadkill.

It's not really a dictatorship if there are limits on it...

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Dictate as many digits of pi as possible in 5 minutes.

*rimshot*

Though I'd figure you'd make an edict to ex-ter-min-ate everyone.

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That would break the constitution I think.

Besides, until I got my time machine 5 minutes is not enough.

Call the place Bananarama, make everybody dance and paint it all yellow.

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

I still hold the national day policy is a good idea. I mean how often can you get away with punching someone you don't know in the groin?

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."

Every time you can run fast enough?

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

yes, but legally how often?

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."

1- Send to jail most of the banks directives who are responsible in any way of the debt crisis

2- Everybody charged for corruption or fraud would pay the import of the fraud to the nation. with interests

3- High Tax Fraud will be prosecuted. HARD

4- National political parties will be subject of an audit. In deep.

5- Autonomous Communities would be dismantled. Provinces would be organized as Departments, following the french formula.

6- Law enforcement would be reformed.

7- Education would be reformed.

8- Recent Healthcare reforms would be supressed. Healthcare system would be subject of an audit.

9- Recent Labour Laws reform would be supressed. Previous Labour Laws would be revised.

10- Certain bilateral relationships would be extremely revised.

Haw Haw Haw

• Legalise marijuana.
• Legalise prostitution.
• Tax marijuana and prostitution. Heavily.
• Outlaw any "extras" in cigarettes. Those bitches better just be tobacco in a paper roll.
• Set a bunch of regulations for prostitution.
• Legalise gay marriage.

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

1. Legalize marijuana.

2. Marilize legaljuana.

3. Juanaize marilegal.

4. Authorize public orgies.

5. Allow streaking.

6. Legalize and encourage gay marriage.

7. Encourage cross-cultural examinations of human history.

8. Allow prostitution.

9. Allow polygamy.

10. Lizelegal juanamari.

War is God.

Isn't that kinda what anthropologists do already?

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Dictator for five minutes? With Ireland, this might be hard, but...

1. Wipe every debt. This may result in some financial loss, but it will be better for the economy in the long run.
2. Authorize modernization of the military. Our only fighters are goddamn propeller planes!
3. Males under 17 having sex with females under 17 is no longer rape.
4. Elections are now every two years.
5, Voting age is now sixteen.
6. Open rehab centers for smokers.
7. Fathers who are not married to the Mother do have some say in the child, however, this is lost if they do not exercise this right within two years of the child's birth.
8. Build more prisons, and remove prisoner's access to fucking Xboxes and Satellite TV.
9. Stop budget cuts to public services, start budget cuts to government official's salaries.
10. Graffiti is legal, except over advertisements and protected buildings.

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

Hehehe. I love our Constitution. There is no way you can contradict it.

1. STV! STV! STV! STV! FOR ALL THE ELECTIONS.

2. REGIONAL ASSEMBLIES! REGIONAL ASSEMBLIES! FOR ALL THE REGIONS.

3. REMOVE ALL THE HEREDITARY PEERS.

4. Legalise gay and polygamous marriages and straight civil unions.

5. ADOPT ALL THE EURO CURRENCY

6. CONTRIBUTE MORE TO ALL THE STABILITY FUNDS

7. ABOLISH ALL THE TUITION FEES

8. Nationalise the following corporations:

• British/Scottish Gas
• British Telecoms
• bp
• Network Rail
• Any other British company I can think of

9. Under-18s will get free fares on public transport

10. London will be renamed "Oppidum Peius".

edited 10th Aug '12 10:54:14 AM by Inhopelessguy

1. Legalize gay marriage

2. Make debate skills & etiquette a mandatory class in public school

3. Emphasize that teachers teach their students to respect one another

4. Outlaw "extras" in cigarettes

5. Graffiti is legal on public buildings

edited 10th Aug '12 10:58:34 AM by Haldo

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I'm just stealing that consultant's fee after doing something obvious like legalizing gay marriage. I don't have much faith in the predictability of economics.

edited 10th Aug '12 11:03:57 AM by Clarste

1. Begin to shift focus away from Reagan-era-esque militarization.

2. Reduce military spending greatly.

3. Focus spending on social concerns and global welfare.

4. Instate universal health care.

5. Begin actively seeking to exterminate social stratification.

6. Require that one has at least a college education before running for office.

7. Make secondary education cheaper and more accessible to most if not all social groups.

8. Encourage human studies as part of regular education.

9. Enact much stricter gun control measures.

10. Stop or reduce the ridiculous "war on drugs".

War is God.

... Crap. I should have put "get an actual Constitution" on my list.

You mean the PC-9s? Don't make me laugh, that ain't even fighters!

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

Yes, the PC-9s.

I really need to finish the Paddies with Propeller Planes page I started.

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!