Presently, Payday Lenders are permitted to charge up to 400% interest and fees for short term (payday) loans. The Federal government caps payday lending rates at 36% near military bases and lenders continue to profit from the business. In the Kentucky House of Representatives, the Chair of the Banking and Insurance committee, Jeff Greer, Brandenburg, refuses to bring the issue up for vote in committee. Please lend your support to advancing common sense legislation affecting those in the margins of our society.

I signed a petition encouraging him to take the bold step of replacing Edward DeMarco, acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, with someone who'll do the right thing for the economy and the 12 million families who are in danger of losing their home. Fannie should allow principal reductions on ALL homeowners who are underwater both current and delinquent. Why do the banks send you a letter decling a loan modification and then go on to offer for you to short sale it for market value to someone else instead of giving you a loan modification at market value? WE THE PEOPLE ask President Obama to replace Ed Demarco Ed DeMarco must go ! Please sign & forward: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/allow-principal-reductions-replace-ed-demarco.html

Collection agency's should not be able to get rich on medical collections. Medical collections should not increase over the normal rate of interest.

In Nov.2012, the voters of Colorado voted 3 to 1 in favor of Amendment 65, essentially requesting the Colorado Legislature to go on record as opposing the January 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which basically legalized bribery of elected and administrative officials of the government. But the CO. Congress has so far ignored the people's will. Perhaps they feel that no on is watching. Sign this petition to tell our legislators do their job and pass (in CO.) a draft US constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

Anyone, public or private, profiting from people's imprisonment in any way (from prison work, etc.) is completely immoral and should be illegal. That anyone can profit from people being in prison (through companies like Prison Blues, and many others) encourages people who can profit to put people in prison and keep them there for as long as possible. Prison profit is a multi-billion dollar business, and is booming in California.

In the first presidential election cycle since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, an estimated $6 billion was spent, with more than $1 billion coming from non-party outside groups. By some accounts, approximately 31 percent of outside spending was funded by "secret" undisclosed donors. For our democracy to flourish, we must find new, meaningful ways for average citizens to have a stronger voice in the process, and citizens have a right and a need to know who is spending money to influence the outcome of our elections.

Reporting requirements for Credit Reporting and Collections Companies.

Georgia: Gov Deal and State Legislature: Georgia should pass a resolution to petition the US Congress and President to overturn Citizens' United.

I recently read that while Walmart reaps the largest profits on the planet, 80% of its employees receive food stamps. This is wrong! The taxpayer is, in essence, subsidizing these outrageous corporate profits and CEO salaries through public assistance programs such as food stamps and health care. This could be stopped.

Pharmaceutical giant Amgen leveraged 74 Washington, D.C. lobbyists and more to extract a $500 million giveaway from Medicare in the so-called "fiscal cliff" deal. This is lavish and corrupt corporate welfare at its most insidious. We may not have our own lobbyists, but Amgen owes it to us -- their customers -- to use their own expensive lobbyists to give back the very giveaway they just wheedled out of Congress. Build public pressure to stop this needless giveaway by telling Amgen Chairman and CEO Robert Bradway to give back the taxpayer dollars his company extracted from Medicare in the recent fiscal deal.

Congress habitually exempts themselves from laws they pass to restrict or control the behavior of their constituents. I propose a Constitutional Amendment to require that all laws passed by Congress apply to all members of Congress, their aides, and employees, just as they do to American citizens.

Yes, I have been affected, but this issue is also about the millions across this country who have been affected by the fraud. It is despicable especially since the banks received our Tax dollars as a bailout for assisting homeowner's across.