- If the Federal government is successful in levying tax on Internet sales, the revenue should go to paying down the national debt. - If Federal or State governments announce a spending they must identify the source of the income, borrowed or generated.

Outsourcing only increases profits of business owners but has eliminated millions of American jobs. It also has reduced salaries paid to existing jobs.

I work for the Government. Our budget, staffing, and pay have been cut to save money. I have no problem sacrificing for my country, but what about the Senate and Congress. Budget cuts never affect them or the several hundred staff members(that's each congressmen and Senator, literally hundreds of staff) They make 3-4 times what me and my fellow government workers make, yet they continue to get yearly pay raises and never face any budget cuts.

The state of DC schools are appalling. Many of the schools in the poorest communities are rundown and dilapidated. Despite all the increases in revenue the DC Council fails to add additional revenue to our failing schools that are 100% located in low income communities. How can DC benefit from a ten fold increase in revenue from traffic tickets, tourism, and proposed Internet taxes and not dedicate all that money to our public schools. It is embarrassing and shameful that all the good DC schools are located in the most affluent DC neighborhoods. Enough is enough. We are one city and we have to act like it! Join me in demanding the best schools in the country for all our residents including the poor, the just making it, and the middle class.

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I walked off my job at McDonald's this morning because I can’t survive on the poverty wages I make. And I’m not alone. Together we're launching the D15 campaign – for workers, for families, and for Detroit – and standing up to the enormous corporations we work for to make sure they get a simple message: Workers like us should be paid a fair wage that lets us make ends meet. Most of us make $7.40 an hour – or just barely more. That means our average salary is less than $19,000 per year, which just isn’t enough to cover basic needs like rent, food, health care, transportation, and often times a family to support. A lot of us are forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet. It’s downright shameful that someone who works full time is forced to rely on public assistance because their employers aren’t paying them enough. Paying fast food workers a livable wage will not only help us support our families, but it will also help strengthen Detroit's entire economy. When we’re paid a fair wage, we’ll have money to buy the everyday items we need, keeping the money in our community and making our neighborhoods safer. I've had it with food and retail chains who are not paying workers in Detroit enough to survive. I’m outraged that full-time workers can’t afford rent, food, transportation, or health care. I believe that, here in America, everyone who works hard should be able to afford basic necessities like groceries, rent, and transportation for themselves and their families. I stand with Detroit’s food and retail workers in demanding they get the respect, and living wage, they deserve.

Violated citizens need your help now! This issue really hits home with us at Scott Cole & Associates. We represent employees in wage disputes with large corporate employers. It's an uphill battle, all the more so because so many workers are required to sign arbitration clauses when they take a job. This bill would help level the playing field at a time when workers need all the help they can get. So please support, share, like, tweet and write your Congressmen about this!

35 hour work-week Tools were/are invented and used to save time and energy. They allow us to do more things, including having more “free” time to engage in other perhaps more enjoyable aspects of life. Industrialization did that to a great extent for civilization. So is our continuing advances in automation. The idea behind these advances is, or should be, to reduce the number of hours an average worker must put in on the job to accomplish the same feat. The average workweek in America did decline over the decades to reach 40 hours a week around World war II. Since then, automation and efficiency have increased dramatically, but we are still stuck with a 40-hour workweek. This has been one of the reasons that we currently have such high unemployment-people still working 40 hours + a week while others are completely unemployed. We are long overdue for a legal reduction to a 35-hour workweek. If we did this, employers, especially corporations employing a large number of people, will be encouraged to hire more people to fill the gap rather then pay current employees time and a half overtime for that extra 5 hours needed to do the job. This would save parents some money reducing the amount of after school day care needed. The ultimate goal (in America) would be the 30-hour week. This would match America’s current school day. Some parents could then eliminate after school daycare altogether and allow some other families to become 2 earner families.

lawmakers should abide by the laws they pass for the people. their retirement should be social security. terms should be limited. no more permanent electorates. the people need to have a say in our own lives again

The current administration is taking every action except the right ones to try to get more money into the Social Security coffers. The are reducing current and future benefits, beginning to privatize medicare and looking at retirement savings of individuals. What needs to be done is to increase the income cap to $150,000 and perform means testing that includes all types of taxable income. If you have $100,000 or more of taxable income, you don't need Social Security. Under the current proposals, only the people who need the support the most are being negatively affected.

Permanent positions are being staffed by an endless cycle of contract workers. This is not only depressing the wages of skilled workers, but it's making it increasingly difficult to find steady employment with benefits, even for qualified and experienced engineers.

People have been told by White House on down thru channels to save for their retirement. I have some investments. Now I have reached that magic 70 yr. point & I am told I have to start drawing on it. I don't need it right now, but I have to draw it or be penalized. In turn I have to pay taxes on something I have already paid taxes on. I am being forced to receive what I might need in later years to survive & be self supporting. I am sick & tired of our government telling me I don't know when I need to draw out some of my investments.