I'd probably divert more federal funding towards education and health care, end the drug war, reduce the number of troops overseas, cut back the defense budget a wee bit, make health care more affordable, join the Kyoto protocol, enforce existing gun laws, offer services to help start new businesses, give tax breaks for businesses that invest in the environment (e.g., reduce energy consumption), and several other things.
if i were president, the first thing i would do would be to stop subsidizing the wealthiest corporatations on the planet. then i would re-enact the 300+ environmental laws that Bush purposefully overturned (so that the giant industries can continue to get rich by poisoning millions of Americans with toxic pollutants). I would then fuck over these industrial chemical conglomerates (waste incinerators, paper millers, coal-burners, etc) with massive fines and jail time. After i undid all the damage that Bush has done, I would work on making America a sustainable community, replacing the meat industry with industrial hemp farming. I would then heavily subsidize organic farming, wise land use, and alternative energies. Bush is the most irresponsible and environmentally-cruel president in the history of the United States. Thousands of people die every day from bad air (think one World Trade Center catastrophe per day). Thousands of other people die every die from cancer caused by the obscene levels of mercury, sulfur, dioxins, PCBs, etc lurking in every bite of food we eat and every sip of water we drink. Some people actually notice what a nauseating stunt this administration is. in fact, Bush is the greatest terrorist in the world; he kills thousands of his own citizens on a daily basis.
Drugs wouldn't be legal, they would be mandatory. Phish would get back together, using force if neccessary, and would give a free concert on the washington mall every day of my presidency. Invade Vietnam, they'd never see it coming. I'd secure our borders by annexing mexico and canada, that way we would only have a small southern border on the yucatan. LSD would be required in all tap water. I'd make the remaining members of the grateful dead change their name back to "the other ones". I'd destroy cleveland, and make the pittsburgh steelers immune to pretty much every law of man and nature. I'd increase funding for public schools, and start an intensive program aimed at helping gifted kids. The national language would be Spanish, except for in Quebec, because they are helpless. Soccer would become football, and football would become american football. Switch to the metric system. I'd 'purge' everyone in the government who wasn't loyal to me, and send them to Quebec. The national anthem would be the llama song. I'd appoint Jimmy Carter as my successor.
I would legalize pot and hash, and give away free vaporizers and recipes for brownies... to promote lung health! haha and i would make all fast food die. well i guess the food is all ready dead... but i would make all big corporations break up, and let the country have more small businesses. Umm and i would get rid of fatness (no offense to anyone...). wow if only dreams could come true
I'd also allow smoking in bars and clubs, end illegal "puppy farms", fund more in scientific reseach in institutions and schools, have stricter scientic research codes (ending research on colored vegetables, for example), end the No Child Left Behind Act and replace it with something better, crack down on organized crime syndicates, try to end homelessness in America, encourage illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship, legalize prostitution and set up a government bureau for it, teach safe sex in schools (not flat out abstinence), end the trade embargo against Cuba, and other things...