You have a credible report that terrorists have are planning an attack on U.S. soil. You:
Issue threats to the terrorists
Contact the terrorists and ask if they will call off the attack if we stop military aid to Israel
Give the terrorists a basketball signed by Kobe Bryant and hope they won't attack
Go to the U.N. to get a resolution condemning terrorism
Attack the terrorist headquarters before they strike
Try to get the terrorists to attack a city filled with your political opponents
Sit on your hands and blame the previous administration
The price of gasoline is spiking. Money is going to our enemies and America's standard of living is going down. You:
Increase subsidies to your friends in the ethanol business
Let prices go up to force people to conserve
Send a letter to OPEC asking them to lower prices
Give the Saudis anything to pump more oil
Set a maximum price for fuel and establish gas rationing
Allow more domestic drilling and nuclear power plants
Issue a call for conservation from your private jet
Americans are having a hard time getting access to high-quality, affordable health care. You:
Make health insurance portable to increase competition
Put in a single payer system which rations access to keep costs down
Add more people to Medicare, fund it by a tax on the wealthy
Make it easier for people to join HMOs, especially those that have contributed to your campaign
Tell everyone if they just pay a bit more in premiums, everything will balance out
Encourage people without insurance to go to the emergency room to get free care
Hold hearings on the crisis, highlighting how difficult it will be to achieve a solution
The budget deficit last year was $407 billion. How do we close that gap?
It can't be closed. Get as much money for your friends as you can before we go bankrupt
Borrow more money from the Social Security trust fund
Raise taxes and cut interest rates to close the gap as quickly as possible
The defense budget was about that amount. Just shut down the Department of Defense
Don't bother. Running deficits is good for the economy
Pass the deficit on to our children. It has always worked before
Don't allow those fat cats in Congress to add earmarks to spending bills
Innocent people are being killed in Darfur, Sudan. What is your reaction?
There are more important problems to deal with right here at home
The U.N. should pass a resolution condemning genocide
We should send in the Marines
It's not in our interest to help the victims. We could get much more by looking the other way
We shouldn't judge what is happening in Sudan. We have done things just as bad
China supports the government of Sudan, and we don't want to upset the Chinese. We should stay out of it
People in that region always solve their differences violently. It's their culture and none of our business
The U.S. has a higher murder rate than most of the western world. How can we lower it?
Encourage people to carry guns and exercise their 2nd Amendment right to self defense
Ban firearms and send the police to confiscate existing weapons
Fund programs to rehabilitate criminals so they won't offend again.
Add more police and prisons
Sue gun manufacturers and put them out of business
Disband the NRA and ban video games that glorify violence
Ignore the Heller decision and let cities ban handguns
Unemployment is going up. How can we make it come back down?
We could be headed into a depression. We need another set of programs like the New Deal
Mandate a 35 hour work week so businesses are forced to hire more people. It worked in France
Deport the unemployed to Mexico
Guarantee the unemployed government jobs
These things run in cycles. If we don't interfere it will get better on its own
Cut regulation so that businesses can hire workers more easily at lower cost
Count schoolchildren as employed. That will make the numbers look better