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Always debating this back and forth and I won't "get everyone going" with some of my more "extreme" changes I'd make, but I was thinking about this during my 3 hour drive up today.
Only thing I could think of that I could "get away" with maybe for one day is this:

I'd make EVERYONE take the day off! EVERYONE stay home and spend one day totally dedicated to thinking about fixing a major problem in society.
Everyone gets to submit a problem and we would focus on only one. (most votes wins for this I guess...we don't have much time....) Two hours spent for submitting and Two for counting the votes.
The next 20 hours spent would be for all of our collective minds to just sit back and focus on one problem and see what happened. All the artistic creative minds combined with the scientific analytical minds, and focused on one problem. All the youthfull ideas, mixed with the savvy elder ideas, with the tranquil calmness mellowing the competitive fires.
May have to extend the "solution" to another day...(ok, many), but my point is this: what could be achieved if EVERYONE was trying to fix the same problem? Together?



<didn't I tell you guys/gals that time alone is dangerous in my head?>





Then I'd give myself a nice pension before stepping out of office....... :nodsmiley

This one is from the wife:
<from a Mexican standpoint I'm sure>

She would fire every police and have each position filled by a Parent who has a child that has been effected by drugs and crime and allow them one day to "change" some things here.
The police would end up selling "gum" at the border for a day.
(and I thought I had some extreme ideas....)

The mind is a terrible thang.

I would mandate that every person, regardless of age, sex, race, religion, etc. living within the confines of the continental U.S. be required to use common sense at least once per day. Hawaii and Alaska can continue as per usual. Just kiddin'. About the common sense part, too.

Shade

That's not bad.....I like it! :nodsmiley

Stores will be closed on Sunday. Gas stations and drugstores may stay open until noon. After that...it's a day off! Need somewhere to go? Have a picnic. Play croquet in the backyard with your children. Visit your mother!SuperWalBestRadioCircuitMartBuyShackCity will be open tomorrow. It will be different at first, perhaps slightly uncomfortable, but we'll all survive.

Thank you my fellow American.

I would resign....it's the last job on earth I would ever want. No matter what you do, approx. 50% of the country will love you, and 50% will hate you...unless you do something really stupid.

Yup...then your ratings would climb and you'd have to stay, lol.

Shade

I'd veto all of the ridiculous "pork" project legislation that has been added to legitimate spending bills and show the American people how much of their money their "representatives" on both sides of the aisle in Congress waste.

I'd eliminate all subsidies and most of the welfare and cut spending for education and give power back to the teachers and pay good teachers more money and get rid of poor ones and as I was leaving for the day, I'd tell T.Kennedy to ***.

stagday :nodsmiley :nodsmiley :nodsmiley

I'd go play golf. After all, I would have access to the best courses in the world...might as well take advantage. The reason I would do this instead of something to help the country is that Congress still has the power and I am merely a figurehead that gets blamed for everything.

Of course is I were omnipotent for a day...

I am with Stagday, Valeogut and Grneyedblack...
Throwing my accounting background into the mix, I'd make the income tax 3 or 4 brackets straight regressive percentage...eliminate the loopholes. Of course, the lower tax brackets would be paying less than they are now which offsets the loss of deductions.

One of my first objectives would be to abolish the tax code and implement a reasonable (I mean 1-5 cents) national sales tax. This way everybody is operating on equal ground. Rich or poor, legal or illegal residents, CPA's and lawyers with all the tax code loopholes, etc., etc., all would have to pay into the system has we all have to buy goods and services. My feeling is that the tax code as it exists today is so cumbersome, is kept alive to keep the livelihoods afloat of some very influential people who would lose much should the tax code go way.

With a national sales tax, in lieu of income taxes (which my husband and I pay substantially), I could almost envision our national debt withering away.

Perhaps this notion is simplistic an naive, but in many cases simple is better!

I like JC's idea. I'd play golf...as much as I could, wherever I wanted. 1 day isn't enough time to do anything of consequence that would last beyond that day.

I'd make passports compulsory , make evryone travel abroad every two years. It would make Americans appreciate how lucky they are, and how much the rest of the world has to offer. It would help end the preception that Americans are totally ignorant of the rest of the world (Reagan and Quayle helped build that belief).

I'd make sure that day is one of the days from the TV show 24. You'd get a new thing accomplished every hour! If you've ever seen that show, it's insane! But I wouldn't be the president during the most previous season (Season 4)... where he (spoilers) gets attacked and blown up while on Air Force One (/spoilers).

So, from 12-1am, we would locate and thaw out the cryogenically frozen body of Ben Hogan.
From 1-2am, I would arrange the taxes so there are no loopholes and they don't favour the wealthy.
From 2-3am, I would rename Washington state, because it's too confusing between that and Washington D.C. (It would be renamed State in the North and West of the Country Because I'm Too Lazy to Think of a Name, or S.N.W.C.B.I.T.L.T.N.)
From 3-4am, I would focus on finally catching Osama bin Laden (and like the show - not realistically, but like the TV show would do it - we'd catch him within the hour).
From 4-5am, I would get a spy into the Saddam trial and get him/her to do to Saddam what his people did to the defense lawyer.
From 5-6am, I would arrange a meeting with whoever's in control of border policies, and basically close the borders, and make it harder for illegal immigrants to get papers.
From 6-7am, there would be a conflict at the border between Canada and S.N.W.C.B.I.T.L.T.N., which I would have to personally resolve.
From 7-8am, I would realize I'm late for my tee time with Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and the cryogenically frozen, recently thawed Ben Hogan at T.P.C. at Sawgrass.
From 8am-1pm, I would be golfing at T.P.C. at Sawgrass with the 3 afforementioned people.
From 1-2pm, I would give an address to the country, outlining the various things I've accomplished so far, and give an agenda for my aspirations for the rest of the day.
From 2-3pm, I'd check my email.
From 3-4pm, I'd check Golf Rewind.
From 4-6pm, I'd sit back and watch Air Force One, while flying in Air Force One. :P
From 6-7pm, I'd locate the people who are psychotic enough to go out and kill their own children (any chlidren in general, but especially their own) and lock them up in an asylum for the rest of their lives.
From 7-8pm, I'd get a little nap. After all, I've been awake for almost two straight days by now!
From 8-10pm, I'd check up on the S.N.W.C.B.I.T.L.T.N.-Canada border situation, and make sure it's under control.
At 10pm, I'd watch Seinfeld.
From 11-12am, I'd watch a different episode of Season 3 of 24 on 24 separate TVs, all side-by-side, all at once, and I'd smile because they were the inspiration for my crazy, crazy Presidential day.

I dare anyone to beat that!

Let's see... recently the US national debt has been increasing at about $1.6 billion per day, so I guess I'd go around turning off lights or something.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/