Cox is the only cable company that offers cable in most of the state of Virginia. They raise prices every 2 years and bill you a month in advance. If you owe a bill for $100 a month they will bill you $200 and add a $5.00 late fee for each month if you do not pay the entire amount. Virginia legislators are so busy raising the prices on every state provided necessity while reducing money for big business in this state that is is very difficult for anyone to live comfortably. Regulating Cox would be a good start.

Corporations and Businesses receive huge tax-breaks and subsidies from local, state and federal governments - not all of those windfalls are of benefit to the tax-payer who has to foot the bill. I propose that all business subsidies / tax breaks of more than $500,000, or $100,000 for five years or more, are subject to automatic review. Before the subsidies / breaks can be continued, legislative bodies must determine the value to the citizenry, produce a detailed report on their findings, and have an open public comment period.

Labor Protection Rights from Corporate Managerial Abuses Petition

The American Legislative Exchange Council wants to be treated as a charitable organization, not as the extremist national organization that is a "bill mill" for laws that limit the right of Alabamians to vote. ALEC has also been responsible for laws like the Stand Your Ground law in Florida.

I have worked in the insurance 10 to 15 years. I sold, did follow up on underwriting & taught insurance. I've spent the last 5 years answering questions for people that needed Medicare. I need a license & continuing education just to sell insurance. I've found that member services in just about any company you can think of, there member services aren't licensed!!!! The medicare population, the people that need it the most are misinformed on a daily basis. Why are insurance companies allowed to have unlicensed employees that need to know products inside & out do customer service. It's a loop hole for the insurance industry so they won't have to pay agents. Most people on medicare have never had to buy health insurance which is a very complicated insurance. Why should we let unlicensed people that aren't qualified enough to do the job

If these banks are TOO BIG to fail they are TOO BIG to exist. They have severe detrimental effects on our economy, on our Congress and most important IT IS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC!

Chase Home Finance is trying evict a Washburn, Wisconsin family from their home after they fell behind on their house payments due to a medical emergency. They have scheduled a sheriff sale for June 5. Stacy Butterfield, who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, has three children, one of whom has Down syndrome. She fell behind on her mortgage when her husband suffered a brain aneurysm. Despite repeated attempts to work with the bank, so far Chase has refused to do right by them. To stay in their home, they need our help!

Tips make up a significant portion of the incomes of workers in counter-style restaurant/cafes. But Noah's Bagel's has a corporate policy against any tips or tip jars at all. Of course, this decision was made by the worst kind of human beings: highly paid managers who have never really thought about what it would mean to live on the incomes their retail workers make. Let's let them know what we think of this, and give them a wave of horrible, embarrassing press that will make Noah's change this contemptible policy.

Scott Thompson has been caught openly lying about his resume, claiming a degree he never had! If any of us 99% who play by the rules would have lied about something so fundamental, we would have been fired on the spot. Why should the rules be different for Scott Thompson?? He needs to be fired by the Yahoo Board - immediately!

We forget that statistics are people, and people that matter. • The U.S. Department of Labor produced a fact sheet on numerous events in the workplace. In July 2010 they concluded that over a 5 year span, from 2004–2008, there were an average of 564 work-related homicides that occurred each year in the United States of America. About 4 out of 5 homicide victims in 2008 were male. • The U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health states that homicide is the second highest cause of death on the job after motor vehicle accidents. That amounts to every 3 cases to 10,000 workers. Over 2 million workers are assaulted each year and 2, 000 people are murdered. • A 2007 national survey by Zogby International and Workplace Institute found that: • 37% of workers have experienced workplace bullying. • 62% of employees who received complaints about workplace bullying either ignored the problem or made it worse. • 64% of bullying targets eventually are pushed out of their jobs. • 73% of workplace bullies are supervisors. - In the spring of 2011, I was in a Federal Deposition with Verizon, and they admitted, under oath, that they receive over 104,000 EEO complaints a year. That comes out to 8,666 a month, and 2,000 a week, 400 a day. Why so many?

This petition is for the purpose of making clear to all concerned that corporations are not people and are not entitled to the rights of people as enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. We, the people, must energize our Congressional representatives and candidates, both federal and state, to put this issue to rest for all time.

In today's wireless high-tech society corporate greed for profit has overridden the concern for the health and welfare of the people. This petition is to demand the White House and Congress to require all corporations to be accountable for the new technologies that they implement. Three to four percent of the population are electrically/radio sensitive and have ill effects from high frequency devices. Doctors are finding more and more cases of cell phone related tumors. The World Health Organization has listed cell phones as a possible carcinogen and high frequency devices have been known to affect pacemakers, blood insulin devices and other medical devices.