Republicans that have not worked for the people of our country for 12 years. The middle class needs to remain without more added burden for the sake of the wealthy 2%.

CEO's are making millions of dollars, Corporations are making billions of dollars a year. The people at the bottom such as cashiers,cooks, service reps that are dealing with the public are bringing in the revenue and keeping money in your pockets. It is not the job of the Government to give your employees Medical Assistance. It is also not the Governments job to give your employees food stamps to feed their families. Share the wealth and be fair to the employees that are helping you keep your job.

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.