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Originally posted by notlostmaybe
how to fix america. here is a list of things i would do to fix america
if i were emperor. 
1. no goverment employment beyond 15 years. no goverment retirement.
this means all goverment employees; elected, civil servants, military,
police, teachers, ect. from the local level to the federal level.
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Ok, good start.
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2. bill of rights-all speech is protected except public hatemongering.
3. the war on drugs is over. production of methamphedine is a capital offence.
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Ehh. Just make all drugs legal and make people start being responsible for themselves. This also includes making parents be PARENTS for a change instead of relying on the government to do it for them.
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4. if we are going to have capital punishment it will be carried out
in the public arena. capital punishment will be expanded to include
corrupt politicions, goverment employees, business and church leaders.
death rows will be cleaned out one way or another.
5. houses, apartments, mobile homes etc. are now owned by there occupants
without morgage or lien.
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Oooh, me likey the execution thing.
The trouble with the housing thing is what happens to the people who own the buildings, or who own the loan? They have to be paid for their services, after all, they cant just take a $150k - $millions hit on their businesses and lives. If you owned an apartment building, would you be happy about having the government come in and say that you have to give it away to your tenants? What if that building cost you $1,000,000? How happy are you about giving away a million dollars?
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6. bill of rights-americans may keep their guns. no more manufacture of
pistols. no public display of weapons. police will conceal their weapons.
7. voting- 14-16yo=1/2 vote; 16-18yo=3/4 vote.18-80= 1vote.80-82=1/2 vote.
82+older no vote. voting is manditory
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Its a good start, but the part about "Shall not be infringed" keeps getting in the way of me being fully behind your idea. 
And the voting thing sucks. If you want to let underage kids vote, make them join the National Guard or something and send them to Boot first. See if voting is important to them enough to stick with it. Maybe they will get some maturity out of it too.
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8. all patents and copyrights expired. begin again with 5 years max.
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Again, you are messing royally with Contract Law. No go from me.
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9. in large businesses the pay range between the lowest and the highest
employees with the same years in is 8 times.
mutual funds and other managed funds will have no voting rights.
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The .gov shouldnt have this much pull in the say of any private entity. JMHO.
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10. no public advertisement for tobacco, alcohol, weapons, church.
what do you think would fix america? :
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Again, if someone has space to sell, and wants to cover it up with an advertisement, they should be allowed to as long as the local .gov says OK. It is not in the purview of the .gov to restrict that.
All in all, not a terrible start. However, if I were to post my platform and budget renditions MercedesShop, half the liberals here would have strokes.
