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.

The Federal minimum wage should be adjusted for each company according to the size of their revenue stream. As corporations grow in size, they become virtually impossible for smaller business to compete against, mostly due to their vastly lower overhead and the efficiency of their acquisition pipelines. To IMPROVE competition in almost every industry, companies should be required to pay HIGHER minimum wages based on the size of its revenues, with very large companies being required to pay as much as 50% higher wages than businesses with fewer than 10 employees.

Federal aid, money derived from federal taxes, should not support millionaires. Examples include millionaire farmers who qualify for federal aid due to drout and millionaire home owners on the Jersey shore who will be the primary beneficiaries of federal money to restore the Jersey beaches after hurricane Sandy. Because of global warming, extreme weather conditions will become more common. We need to limit federal spending, as a response to extreme weather conditions, when that spending will add to the prosperity of the super rich. We need to put limits on personal gain from federal disaster relief funding.

Federal aid, money derived from federal taxes, should not support millionaires. Examples include millionaire farmers who qualify for federal aid due to drout and millionaire home owners on the Jersey shore who will be the primary beneficiaries of federal money to restore the Jersey beaches after hurricane Sandy. Because of global warming, extreme weather conditions will become more common. We need to limit federal spending, as a response to extreme weather conditions, when that spending will add to the prosperity of the super rich. We need to put limits on personal gain from federal disaster relief funding.

For Low-Income and Marginalized Entrepreneurs, getting financing via business loans is next to impossible. Few have the personal resources like savings to work from, and even fewer have the business connections to find private funding. What they DO HAVE are good business ideas, and lots of energy to make them work. If the Small Business Administration gave Government Grants to the poorest and most isolated of Entrepreneurs, we could CREATE JOBS WHERE THEY ARE MOST NEEDED. Grants would "even the playing field," and get jobs to the communities most in need.

Undoing the disastrous and rushed law that so hurts the average Michigan worker.

The "fiscal cliff".

If the payroll tax is restored it will cost a typical worker about $1,000 a year, and two-earner family with six-figure incomes as much as $4,500.

The best way to accomodate Americans back to work and off entitlements is to create a national employment office which includes state welfare and unemployment offices. To encourage the best management and ideas, the contract will go to bid publically to run the national staffing agency. What will this do? For the job seeker, they will have a list of every job in America. For employers, they will have a list of every job seeker. This will facilitate the fastest way to get the most talented and skilled to the top or just get a body in there. For welfare and unemployment they will be able to assign work before welfare. There is no better way to lower entitlements than to offer a work assignment before welfare, where social workers have a comphensive knowledge of the person's skills and every job out there. A comprehensive nationalist database will allow many technological strategies that are impossible with our present capitalist model. Sofware can be implemented that would allow employers to flawlessly seek by skills, background and education from government databases. Employees can search by pay rate, geographical location, company reputaton, etc. Job seeking and headhunter smart phone alerts can come from an authorative database vs. limited capitalistic databases. These, to mention a few. Nationalizing employment placement in America is also the greenest idea as well because no other idea will give the person as much leverage of getting a job which directly means less energy use. Judicially speaking, when a debt is owed a judge will be able to nip the bud and issue a work order directly from the database for problematic debtors. It will become obvious if a person is avoiding work, where as now we can't be sure they are avoiding work to pay a debt. Why isn't capitalism working for our employment placement? Capitalsim strangulates American companies from knowledge of who's looking for employment and prevents full knowledge of what jobs are open to job seekers. It also sends billions of dollars in profits shaved off American wages to staffing agencies owned in Europe, where the two most profiable staffing agencies are not American companies. Nationalism will open the gates of employment knowlege, provide the fasted from-no-work-to-work model, increase the average person's wage, create the lowest cost but most effective staffing agency model, and lower taxes due to decreasing entitlements. It's time to step aboard the Nationalist movement and take our full wage and quit the anarchist, capitalistic bickering and instead reap the benefits of a Nationalist cooperation.

Representation in the work place has in any part of life isn't a privilege it's OUR right.So if you don't want wants happening in the rest of the world to your children and possible yourselves.So what do we do from here? Sit on our brains or get together and come up with some ideals to put things right.

We believe Holyoke's greatness lies not only in its past, but in its future. The best years for Holyoke lay ahead. The potential for economic growth may indeed be realized by a resort casino in Holyoke. We as citizens respectfully ask Mayor Alex Morse to move forward with a host agreement with one or more gaming interests so that this potential opportunity is decided by the voters of Holyoke in a future referendum.

The Federal Reserve is an independent bank that is run by the most wealthy banks in the world that determine our interest rates and money supply. It was created in 1913 in a lame duck session and has no government control and has never been audited. The value of the dollar has been continually losing value and inflation makes prices of everything go up and it's time for the government to do an audit to find out why our money in continually losing value and where the money is going to so we can prevent the collapse of our currency.