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.

Until a little more than 30 years ago U.S. workers were protected by import tariffs. Since then corporate profits have surged while American wages have stagnated. We've all been hurt by the lack of import tariffs.

I walked off my job at Jimmy John's this morning because I can’t survive on the poverty wages I make. And I’m not the only one. Fast food workers from all over St. Louis went on strike because the companies we work for aren’t paying us enough to support our families – despite huge corporate profits. Most of us make $7.35 an hour – Missouri’s minimum wage – 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 us enough. Paying fast food workers a livable wage will not only help us support our families, but it will also help strengthen St. Louis’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 you and other fast food chains who are not paying your employees in St. Louis enough to survive. I’m outraged that full-time workers can’t afford rent, food, transportation, or health care (health care that you also refuse to provide) and many are forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet. 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 St. Louis’s fast food workers in demanding they get the respect, and living wage, they deserve.

The U.S. government cannot run short of dollars. Federal deficit spending supports our Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, R&D, food & drug inspections, roads, dams, education, housing aid, unemployment compensation and all other federal programs. Deficit cutting (aka "austerity") has caused recessions and depressions everywhere in the world it has been tried.

every citizen is affected Lets get out of debt

This petition addresses Local hiring for all construction projects for new haven residents who have completed the EEOC program and New Haven Base Minority Contractors who have completed the SCD program. look at all of the black and brown contractors in the city that pay for licenses and permits that can’t even find work in the city in which they live. The 1.4 billion dollar school construction program, Rt 34, science park, 360 state street, and the list of development throughout new haven will continue for years, why are our policy makers talking about creating jobs, the jobs are here, we should be talking Job placement for new haven residents and new haven base minority contractors.

I could lose my home in Florida because it is underwater and my mortgage payments are too large for me to handle since the economic recession has severely shrunk my retirement investments. Reducing the mortgage principal to the actual value of my home would shrink my mortgage payments to a manageable level.

Why do we let employers play games with hours worked for benefits awards. 20 hours should be the floor for full benefits, insurance, retirement, sick pay, etc..

My years of hard work are being effected by huge insurance companies. All my clients need my service. Without me as their broker, they wouldn't have any idea what to do. Please reduce costs from hospitals and pharmecuticals, not from brokers who work very hard to earn a buck.