Social Security and lower the retirement age back to 65

The youth of our nation need economic stability. They are the future leaders, parents, workers, and thinkers of our country. They need good jobs to be able to contribute to society. Skyrocketing student debt, restrictive immigration policy, and the rising attacks on the labor movement have all limited young peoples' ability to find employment that will allow them to live in dignity. Latino and African American youth still face employment discrimination, causing genocidal levels of poverty in these communities that fuel the vicious cycles of gun violence and incarceration. Instead, youth could be part of rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, training to teach in our public schools, building community centers , and so much more. We say NO to the Sequester and endless other cutbacks that are being proposed under pressure from the 1%. We say YES to jobs legislation. We say YES to investment in our infrastructure, student support system, and immigration reform. Sign the petition to tell Congress and President Barack Obama we support jobs for youth and jobs for all, NOW!

I, like many Americans have been frustrated by the many Americans who are proudly "pro-war" but don't want to increase taxes for any reason, ever. How else do we pay for war? By cutting programs at home? I for one, supported by many, do not believe it is fair for politicians to decide to go to war and then please their constituents by not raising the necessary revenue to pay for it. We are in large part in the economic mess we are in now because of a decade-plus-long-war which was all paid for from borrowed money and contributed greatly to the current fiscal defecit. I believe if the "pro-war" Americans were responsible for actually paying for war by their own decision to support it, we would have a whole lot less of it. This helps strengthen our economy, gives us ownership of our decisions as a nation, and not to mention brings more peace and prosperity to America.

Say no to President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment for current and future retirees.

Social Security was designed to see that every American who worked would have some retirement income that cannot disappear in the next crash of the financial system. As such it is one of the most successful social programs in the history of our country. Social Security is not broke. It has not contributed one penny to our deficit or debt. It would not be part of the deficit reduction talks at all except that the rabid right is determined to cut all programs designed to help Americans who are not rich. CPI is a cruel hoax that will require retirees to continually lower their standard of living, from steak to chicken, to tuna, to cat-food, to what? If Social Security’s annual adjustment is switched from COLA to CPI then the annual adjustment of tax brackets to prevent “bracket creep” should be changed as well. Please oppose any attempt to reduce Social Security benefits. Please work to remove the $113,700 cap on payroll taxes so that those who benefit most from our great country will make the same contribution as those who worked the hardest.

Social Security benefit cuts will affect our retirees.

The Teamsters seem to have forgotten what solidarity is all about. They are attacking our union, the Transport Workers Union (TWU), just when we need support from the entire labor movement. Our employer, American Airlines is using the bankruptcy process to cut jobs and benefits. This is no time for the Teamsters to be dividing our members and attempting to weaken our union. Tell Teamsters President James Hoffa and Organizing Director Jeff Farmer to stop trying to take away our union and, instead, spend their resources to organize the millions of workers who don’t already have a voice on the job.

We work at Guitar Center and we are organizing across the country to improve wages and working conditions for all Guitar Center employees. We love our jobs and our passion is helping our customers achieve their musical dreams. But we often have trouble making ends meet, thanks to low wages and fluctuating hours. We are asked to do many non-selling tasks which hurt our commissions. Sales workers do not receive sick days, health benefits are expensive and part timers are not even offered health benefits. It’s been an exciting year for the Guitar Center campaign: workers in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas have successfully organized a union at their workplaces, over 100 bands and artists have endorse the campaign, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions supporting us. However, the company has responded by refusing to give us a fair contract and has launched an aggressive campaign to bust the union. The company’s last offer is worse than non-union stores. It is meant to punish us for standing up for ourselves. Our union has been forced to file charges detailing the company’s bad faith negotiating and union busting. We now say: Enough is Enough. We are asking the public to support us as we enter the final stages of negotiations! Sign the petition below to help us get a fair contract and a support our union. Artist Endorsees: Tom Morello Kathleen Hanna Roger Waters Ted Leo A Wilhelm Scream Activator Alan Cage (Quicksand) Alan Bennett Aloe Blacc Alvvays And We Danced Andy Nelson (Paint it Black, Ceremony, Dark Blue) Anoraak Anti-Flag ¡Aparato! Arms Aloft The Attic Ends B. Dolan Beast Patrol Beneath Acacia The Bennies Bent Shapes Bevel Summers Bigger Thomas Billy Bragg B*tch Bluffing Bones Jugs N Harmony Bonesetters Boots Riley (The Coup) Born in a Cent Brass Messengers Breedloves Burn Everything Cambalache Canasta The Cell Phones Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Chicano Batman Chris Farren (of Fake Problems) Chris Frasco Chumped Chunkie Soup Circa '95 Claudio Rivera (Motion City Soundtrack) Computer at Sea Cory Johnson (Impending Doom, Sleeping Giant) Curtis McMurtry Danbert Nobacon (Chumbawamba) David Rovics David Saphra Dean Wareham Devon Kay & The Solutions DJ Torch Downtown Boys Due North East of the Wall Elway Empty Lungs Eric Ayotte Et Tu Brute Evan Greer & Friends Ezra Furman and the Harpoons The Fatty Acids The Fever Haze Flaccid French Horn Rebellion F*cked Up Gameday Regulars The Gashers Gay Panic Glue Gun GoldBoot Gravity A The Grim The Grizzled Mighty Hold Tight! Homewreckers The Hood Internet Hostage Calm The Hoteliers I See Hawks in LA Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) Jasiri X JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN) Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) Jesse Malin John Darnielle (the Mountain Goats) John Wright (Railroad Music) Jonny Rumble Karen and the Sorrows Katastrophe Krill L Train Las Cafeteras Las Vegas Gangstaz The Last Internationale Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Leftover Crack Less Than Jake Local 802 AFM (Associated Musicians of Greater New York) Los Rakas Luther Rix Lyrically Illz Matt Cross (Orange 9mm and ex-Guitar Center worker) Matt Pantelis Matt Reilly (Japanther) Max Bernstein (Ke$ha) Mike Golden & Friends Mike Park (Asian Man Records) The Molotov Mother Falcon The Muggs Murdoc My Body Sings Electric The New Diet Non Exotic On Your Marx The People's Whiskey The Remedies Paint it Black Painted Saints Paper Holland Paul Davis Pet Tigers Plague of Pilgrims Prawn Propagandhi P.Y.M.P. Quetzal Random Rab Ray Korona Rebel Diaz Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Rise Against Robbie Alan Robot Death Kites Rocky Rivera Roger Harvey & The Wildlife Rosetta Rude Mechanical Orchestra RVIVR Saintseneca Sam Jayne (Love as Laughter) Sean Daley (Atmosphere) Sergio Vega (Deftones, Quicksand) The Sights Ski Lodge Slavic Soul Party! Slonk Donkerson Small Reactions Smalls The Smith Street Band So So Glos Sons of an Illustrious Father Sorrows Spiritchild Spring Heeled Jack Starlight Girls Stephanie Johnstone Steve Earle Street Dogs STRFKR The Taxpayers The Thermals Thee Oh Sees This City Called Earth Thollem Electric Tommy Siegel (Jukebox the Ghost) The Underground Railroad to Candyland Unicorn Fukr Vincent Cross Violent Bullsh#t Voodoo Visionary Vulture Sh*t War on Women Water Borders The Way Down Wanderers We Are All Savages We Are the Union Who Needs You Wilder Maker The Wood Brothers Worriers Zelienople Zuzuka Poderosa

Community, it is time we all stand together - We have a VOICE. We are constantly having to take concessions - jobs, pay, medical, our children’s education – everything is costing more and now this... Mayor Nutter needs to go after unpaid Real Estate Taxes. Over $472 million dollars of revenue. Very important let your voice be heard - attend the AVI Tax Meetings at City Hall, Room 400 on April 9 from 5 PM to 7 PM , April 16, 5 PM to 7 PM, April 23 from 6 PM to 8 PM - City Council and Members at Large who represent us, need to stand together and vote no.

Depending on your age, chained CPI could cost you $1,000 a year in Social Security retirement benefits.

Be concerned and show it by signing this petition to keep "hands off" Social Security funds! Neither the state nor the government should touch monies due to seniors!

My mom is on social security and I know others with disabilities. The rich can afford higher taxes before the poor can.