How much reserve average American households have that would have allowed them to compensate for mistakes, big and small, subprime crisis, economic crisis, overcharges, fees, fines, collections and legal judgements over extended period of time without dipping into Red? As a professional lost job in 2005, I have exhausted my resources to shield kids and elderly from the hardship, but still would never be able to keep up with the domino effect caused by errors at system level. It is about time to have a fresh start for all innocent bystanders paying for others mistakes to get sufficient business funding to rebuild middle class. I propse some other forms of credit other than real property before income cliff hits. I have gone through a long and tedious process to find out the road blocks to start a business in US, the hard way.

I am a disabled veteran that is currently living on a pension and Social Security Disability. the Ryan budget, that the President now supports would cut these benefits and cause personal hardship to everyone currently in my position.

Do not cut the Social security benefits. Social security cut will affect everybody including all retirees.

We encourage the Mayor and Town Council Members of Apex, NC to join with the 14 other North Carolina municipalities who have already moved to defend democracy by calling for a stop to anonymous or unlimited political donations and supporting a U.S. Constitutional amendment establishing that: (1) Only human beings are people endowed with constitutional rights, not corporations or any other type of organization. (2) Money is NOT speech and regulating political spending is necessary to preserve equitable and transparent democracy.

Yes, I have been personally affected. I have been laid off twice in four years, and I know people who have been laid off three times during the same time period. I have since relinquished my residence, and I have changed my lifestyle, still seeking, someday, to return to fulltime, permanent employment.

How is Grover Norquist, who has not been elected to legislate a thing, being allowed to dictate policy? Supposedly, legislators are elected to look out for the American people. Taking crumbs from the "least of these," while allowing the rich to continue to get richer, is a shameful contradiction of this principle. How long will we allow our government to be bought by the highest bidder?

It is time to limit the corporate tax deduction to wages included in the Social Security wage base and tax the excess as a dividend. Why do we only pay on the first $117,000? Why not all wages? Why are corporations allowed to deduct this excessive salary but exclude it from social security? Does that seem fair? Limit the deduction and tax the excess as a dividend. And include all income, not only salary. Why is interest exempt? And legislators need to pay as well, no one, except our Veteran's, should be exempt from social security. We also need to limit the corporate tax deduction for travel, meals and entertainment. Why are we subsidizing private corporate jets and lavish meals, parties and "meetings"? Limit the tax deduction to the Federal Per Diem and tax the excess as a dividend. It is time we redefine entitlements. Social Security is a lifeline for many seniors, and it is time we protect them and ensure they can retire with dignity and financial security.

Raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would boost the paychecks of over 30 million workers in the U.S. The majority are adults with full-time jobs, and nearly half have some college education. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since 1968, it would be $10.60 today. Tell Congress you support this fix.

Today, the Rich pay no Social Security taxes on earnings above $113,000. This means that millionaires pay NOTHING on almost all of their earnings! And yet, the President and Congress want to reduce Social Security payments to the elderly, who can least afford it. If the President and Congress would simply eliminate the cap on Social Security contributions, there would be no need to steal seniors' monthly SS payments from them, and SS could be solvent forever!

The biggest fiscal issue facing American's today is income inequality and nearly no one in government is talking about it, so let's make it an issue. Millions of American's are falling deeper into debt and poverty while the most affluent of us all are increasing their total share of America's wealth. Since 1979, the top 5% took home more than half of total income growth. The top 1% took nearly 40%.

We're petitioning Amherst's Town Board to support WNY's food trucks, as they face onerous proposed regulations that would stop them from doing business in Amherst, New York. Public support of the trucks will help the Board make the right decision - to allow them to serve our community, just as they have successfully operated in Buffalo.

Full across the board pay cut and slash of "Fringe-Benefits" to ALL members of Congress in order to pay down the national debt!