Mr. President,
Welcome to the 2010 edition of 'Presidential Choices and You.' Now that you're the president of the United States you will be faced with various challenges and pressures both domestically and on the world's stage. So, please read through each question carefully, and mark your answers clearly. Let's begin.
1) Let's say you are faced with an epic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is causing an environmental disaster the likes of which has never been seen in the United States. The governor of one of those southern states sends barges out to assist with the cleanup effort to suck up as much oil as possible. Do you:
a. Praise the governor for taking the initiative and assisting in the cleanup effort
b. Offer to let the governor run the cleanup effort, since he's getting things done
c. Send the US Coast Guard out to stop those bastards before they get any credit!
2) Suppose that you have an open border to the south of the country, and many millions of people are illegally invading your nation. While the legal immigrants improve our society through hard work and a solid business sense, illegals often engage in human-trafficking and illegal narcotics. One border state decides to assist you by delivering illegals to your door step to make your job easier. Do you:
a. Praise the governor of the state for taking the initiative and assisting our nation's security
b. Offer to put the governor of the state in charge of ICE since the current director said he won't do his job even if illegals are put on his door step
c. Sue the hell out of that state before they screw up your chances in 2012!
3) You are arriving at the G20 Summit in the midst of what can only be called an international financial meltdown of Great Depression era proportions. Upon arrival do you say:
a. "The United States is committed to helping to solve this fiscal crisis immediately."
b. "I look forward to working with the G20 leaders on this extremely urgent issue of our time."
c. "Any good golf courses around?"
4) You have $10. You owe $9.50 to your debtors. Do you:
a. Pay the $9.50 and stop spending money you don't have.
b. Earn more money by reducing the burdens on businesses through lower corporate taxes, which would allow you to pay off the debts more quickly.
c. Extend a new line of credit with a new debtor for a higher interest rate, maxing out the credit immediately, while simultaneously burdening the businesses of the United States, thereby reducing your overall revenues, not pay the $9.50, and pass the bill on to a new generations of Americans.
Thank you for taking this brief quiz. It seems that you have chosen "c." for all of your answers. I'm afraid this is incorrect. We would have accepted pretty much anything except for "c." in these three scenarios. Please review
your presidential manual and re-take the quiz in November.
