I am tired of paying twice as much for gas in California than other states

I AM A 70 YEAR OLD RETIREE ON A FIXED INCPME AND I AM FORCED TO RESTRICT MY LIFE AND WELL BEING DUE TO THE GREED AND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUNDS BY THE STATE AND THERI REFUSAL TO STOP THIS CONSTANT ESCALATION OF COSTS. THE OIL COMPANIES NEED TO BE FINANCIALLY PARALYZED IN ORDER TO MAKE THE OINT CLEAR THAT WE ARE FED UP WITH THEIR BS!!! WE NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE LOST SHEEP AND START OPENING OUR MOUTHS AND JUST SAY "ABSOLUTELY NO" TO THESE GREED MONGERS!

My husband Dan has 17 year old autistic twins. We received over 14,000 signatures to help defend the rights of the Intellectually Disabled community of Connecticut earlier this year. The previous petition helped to mobilize a community of parents, workers, aids, etc. to take a stance again Governor Malloy's dramatic proposed cuts. After seeing the budget battle and how this community was short changed, these pay increase are especially offensive. We need to make a very strong statement and tell Governor Malloy this is NOT OK.

This petition advocates for the re-establishment of the United States Civilian Conservation Corps in the 21st Century (HR 1966 - 114th Congress)as a direct INVESTMENT for both our Nation's most valuable Human Resource Capital and our precious Natural Resource Capitol! FMI http://www.goccci.org Consider joining: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CCCIniative/ FYI: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1966 Please help our non profit to get this NATION - Back to the Future http://wecantakeit.org/id63.html

Governor Christie and his predecessors which include the New Jersey House and Senate have brought about the worst pension crisis in New Jersey history and the very real possibility that public employees will lose part or all of their benefits due to their inability to work together to come to a solution. By adopting an accounting change that will save the state an estimated $2.5 billion annually the state can secure a loan to fully fund the pension with no net cost to employees, no direct cost to public institutions, and no increase in taxes and allow pension fund to be saved. This will allow the state to improve it's credit rating and save the most important asset public employees rely on in retirement. Public employees and tax paying citizens should all join in to force the state government and public institutions to adopt the accounting change in order to save the pension system to avoid the inevitable short term kick the can down the road fix that has led to the current pension crisis. Otherwise, there's a possibility that the fix will come at the expense of everyday taxpayers who are not responsible for their governments inability to solve the pension crisis. Without the $2.5 billion annual accounting change savings, taxpayers will be asked at some point to come to the rescue of the pension system thru higher taxes and public employees will be asked to increase their contributions and give up a big percentage of their benefits, all because the state and public institutions cannot ask for more revenue to put into the system without raising taxes.

We want to know who's playing the music we're hearing, who produced it, who arranged it, where it was recorded and by whom. When this information is withheld, our identity has been stolen.

NAFTA COST THE UNITED STATE MANY JOBS. TPP WILL BE EVEN WORSE. WE NEED A PRESIDENT AND A CONGRESS WHO WILL KEEP THEIR WORD.

Since the Great Depression in 1938, the GSEs (Fannie Mae and more recently Freddie Mac) have been providing liquidity in the housing market and enabling Americans to obtain 30-year, reasonably priced, fixed-interest rate mortgages so that they can purchase homes. Homeownership is the mostly likely path for middle class Americans to gain some measure of economic independence. Since 2012, the Treasury (in an illegal money grab) has been confiscating all profits of the privately-owned GSEs. This type of abuse of power should concern all Americans, especially since it destabilizes a main component of our economy - the housing market. Many in government want to eliminate the GSEs and give all their business to their political donors, the Too-Big-To-Fail Banks, making these banks (that caused the 2008 recession) even bigger and more powerful and likely eliminating the 30-year mortgage and the American Dream of Homeownership.

For over 30 years, wages in America have remained stagnant while productivity has increased and corporate profits have reached all-time highs. In order for more of those corporate profits to reach the pockets of workers, not just the wealthy few, we need updated rules governing worker protections such as overtime pay and the minimum wage. In 1975, the overtime threshold covered over 60 percent of salaried workers. Today, only 8 percent are covered. Raising the salary threshold—below which all workers are guaranteed overtime pay—to $50,440 would raise the share of salaried workers covered significantly. Earlier this year, EPI members delivered thousands of petition signatures urging the Department of Labor to increase the overtime salary threshold, and thanks to you we’re almost there. The Department of Labor has opened a 60-day comment period and needs to hear from you! Big Business is once again opposing common sense approaches to raising workers’ wages. It is demonizing this new rule and misrepresenting how it will positively impact the lives of workers and their families. Millions of workers need our help! Tell the Department of Labor that we stand with them as they work to complete work on these new rules, which will Raise America’s Pay.

Andy Puzder, Hardee's and Carl's Jr. CEO, recently appeared on Fox News and disrespected his 20,000+ employees by insisting that they are so dependent on public benefits that they would not want to work full-time hours nor take promotions if the minimum wage were raised. He went on to say, "These [public assistance] benefits are essential for people, they're how they pay the rent, they're how they feed their kids," without noting the irony that it's his company's poverty wages that make it impossible for fast food workers to make ends meet without public assistance. The fast food industry benefits from over $153 billion a year in subsidies in the form of public assistance because their wages are so abysmal. These subsidies allow CEOs like Puzder to earn a staggering $17,192/day, which is more than a minimum wage employee makes each year. Tell Puzder to open his eyes and see that his greed is the real problem.

This petition is being started due to the lack of partnership from management. The union wants the lies, and deceit to cease and desist immediately.

Following the lead of Mayor Ras Baraka, over a dozen mayors from across the country co-sponsored a resolution at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that calls for banks to release delinquent mortgages to community based lenders. This is a major effort to stop our neighborhoods from being raided for profit over by Wall Street. Mayors and City Councils from coast-to-coast are anxiously awaiting your leadership against this crisis and are ready to stand with you in this fight against Wall Street! When Ras Baraka became Mayor a year ago, WE became Mayor! We believe in Newark and in the resilience of our communities. Unfortunately, families in Newark continue to lose homes to predatory lending and illegal foreclosures by banks. Meanwhile abandoned homes and vacant buildings created by the foreclosure crisis sit empty while private equity firms from Wall Street speculate and profit from our neighborhoods. Local elected leaders in cities hit hard by foreclosures, have looked to Newark as a model to get toxic and delinquent mortgages out of the hands of speculators and into the hands of financial organizations that will work to get large scale principle reduction for our communities. Aware of the commitments Mayor Baraka made during his campaign, a growing movement of local leaders stands ready to join the fight against the foreclosure crisis created by Wall Street. Homeowners in Newark are building a movement to push for housing justice in our city – and our work here will blaze a trail for activists and local elected leaders everywhere! We demand aggressive local action by the City of Newark to seize toxic “PLS” mortgages and to move distressed mortgages from banks into the hands of good actors, like community-based investors, who are concerned about the future of Newark families struggling to save their homes and neighborhoods from profiteering Wall Street banks and private equity firms. Mayor Baraka – your leadership on this issue has jumpstarted a national movement of municipalities demanding justice from Wall Street. It is time for Newark to lead the next phase of the battle. Please take the courageous steps that will reset these troubled mortgages and stabilize the housing market in our neighborhoods.