Who doesn't want to buy locally? Well, what about American, Union-made undergarments? It is becoming a rarity to see the ILGWU label on any clothing you buy in the store, and that has to change. Support the Made-in-America movement by pushing for Maidenform to produce their goods back state-side, in union-run factories. Maidenform is one of the oldest undergarment makers still based in the US, but their products are produced overseas. This has to change!

G.O.P. = Gutting Our Protections Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid Environmental and health safety Unemployment insurance Women's and worker's rights

I fear I am in a country going bankrupt by the extravagant belief that we can solve the world's problems, every effort saturated with more pork. Those who don't want pork actually fired from the Budget Committee

The Republicans are demanding entitlement cuts. Give House Speaker Boehner and the Republicans what they are asking for but from a different list than social services. President Obama should offer a list of cuts from corporate entitlements. Avert the fiscal cliff with cuts to corporate entitlements: industrial agriculture, energy, forestry, mining, outsourcing, banking, to name a few.

Due to the severe pay inequalities of current day created by corporate greed, this act will again help level the playing field for the working class. In 1980 the average CEO pay was 42 x the average employee, but as of 2010 the Average CEO pay is 343 x the average employee all while the average workers wages have been stagnant since the 80s.

This petition is intended to redirect our bloated military to address the greatest threats to our national security.

"Fix the Debt" is financed by corporate and private equity billionaires and millionaires who have advocated making big cuts to the social safety net and slashing corporate taxes for years. They're not concerned about working families; they only care about their profit margins. And Mayor Michael Bloomberg is their new co-chair. New Yorkers don't think working men and women should have to give up the retirement security they've paid for just to give the wealthiest another tax cut. Fix the Debt's approach is dangerous for working families. We should be asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share instead.

Pressure the Congress to enact a bill to require all blue jeans to be made in the U.S.A. Everyone complains about outsourced goods and jobs going overseas. This is a symbolic gesture to bring back a small portion of our goods that CAN BE COMPETITIVELY MADE IN THE U.S.A. 80% of the products in the big box stores are imported - let's bring an American icon home!

Listen to economists. Let the tax cuts expire. Just deal with the budget.

Rumors are swirling in D.C. that Republicans might be willing to include higher tax rates for the wealthy in a deficit deal if Democrats agree to dangerous benefit cuts like raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. Raising the eligibility age is very bad policy. The problem here isn't with the benefits Americans have earned -- it's a cost-of-healthcare problem. Medicare is lower-cost than private insurance, and squeezing the youngest Medicare recipients into private insurance will only make costs worse. We need to control health care costs, not limit access. We can't let the wealthy corporate interests that are spending furiously to push for this succeed.

IN THIS 21ST. CENTURY NO ONE WITH A JOB SHOULD GET PAID LESS THAN A LIVING WAGE. LET'S PETITION THE CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE TO PASS A LIVING WAGE BILL FOR ANYONE THAT HAS A JOB. LETS CHANGE THE NAME FROM "MINIMUM WAGE" TO "LIVING WAGE" . A LIVING WAGE CALCULATED AUTOMATICALLY FOR EVERY CITY IN AMERICA USING A SIMPLE FORMULA "COST OF LIVING+RATE OF INFLATION = LIVING WAGE"

End the Bush Tax Cuts for the Richest 2% Allowing taxes to go up an average of $2,200 per family of four would pose an additional hardship on middle-class families who have already suffered through the Great Recession and its aftermath. The fairest way to address the current fiscal situation, to promote economic growth and to protect middle-class families is to extend tax cuts for the middle class and allow cuts for the wealthiest two percent to expire. Please support a deal that allows the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest 2% and extends tax cuts for those earning under $250,000.