Elections are over and the American people have spoken. I do not think that Medicare and Social Security are entitlement issues. I have paid into them all my working career so I would have a safety net when I retire and not have to worry about privatization or vouchers to get health care when it is least likely I will be able to afford it. Republicans in the House need to wake up. YOU DO NOT HAVE A MANDATE. The PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA, was GIVEN A MANDATE OVERWHELMINGLY and we the people do not want him OBSTRUCTED IN HIS VISION FOR OUR COUNTRY. Elections are coming up for some Republicans in the House. We can finish the job and make sure Democrats take those seats so that the People's Agenda can move forward. My promise will be to work hard to help make that happen should Republicans not work toward resolving problems for the American people and not for the Hard Right Conservative wing of their Party. Stop the OBSTRUCTIONISM or WE THE PEOPLE WILL.

SENATE: APPROVE BILL H1380

Republicans need to know that you will not bend to extortion, as you have in the past. If you won't buckle or compromise on this promise, it will make you more effective for the next four years.

Let's give Americans and our economy a gift for the holidays: Peace, Bipartisanship, Leadership, and Confidence as we shop

When a CEO thinks they can control how their employees vote by threats, its time for workers and customers to unite and send them a very clear message that's its un-American. If this type of behavior is not contained, it becomes the norm.

12 years ago President Bush established a "temporary" tax cut to stimulate the economy using the theory if the people had more money it would stimulate job growth. There was a sunshine provision and the cuts were to end in 2010, but because legislators would not pass an unemployment benefit extension, a deal was struck. The idea has not succeeded in creating more jobs, only more wealth for those who were already wealthy. The poor and middle class tax cuts were spent on basic needs and daily living expenses. Because the market has been flooded with foreign products due to outsourcing, the only economy stimulated was the foreign economy.

It is time, we the people, to urge our Congress to support President Obama's tax plan

Once again, we are headed for a “fiscal cliff” -- a rack of spending cuts and tax increases that will take place in January automatically if Congress doesn’t find a better way to reduce our deficit by $700 billion. The re-election of president Obama should have sent a clear message to Congress that it is the will of the people to let Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans. It appears that either they didn't get it or they are willfully opposing it. Please sign here and add your own comments to make our message clearer.....

Congress imposed a pension law that forced the U.S. Post Office to fund its pension for 75 years in advance & to do it in 10 years. No company, private or public, funds its pensions for workers not yet born. If they did they would go bankrupt. That law is hurting the post office, its workers (at a time when jobs are badly needed), and hurting our economy and mail delivery to many in rural areas that depend on the P.O. for medicines & needed supplies. Ask Congress to repeal that law now!

My husband is a General Contractor and can't find any steady work. I haven't had a raise on my job in eight years and the cost of living continues to rise. We're frustrated and struggling to make ends meet due to the economy. We were living the "American Dream"--We built our home with our bare hands along with our children and had saved for years to be able to bring it to fruition. We work very hard and are part of the "47%" that Republicans believe want a handout or deem lazy; yet they are content to continue to build the country on our backs to add insult to injury. How insulting! Belinda Carr

John Schnatter, CEO of Papa John's, is threatening to reduce worker's hours to 30 hours per week in order to avoid covering them under the Affordable Care act (Obamacare). He claims it will cost an additional 11 to 14 cents per pizza to cover his employees, a cost he cannot absorb or pass along to customers, so he plans to make his employees absorb the cost through reduced hours and reduced pay.

I am a concerned American who has come to the realization that our country is inexorably headed for that Fiscal Cliff which we all know will ravage our economy and the world financial system, but do not seem capable of avoiding it. President Obama was elected on a platform that stated clearly that in redressing the oppressive national debt, he would ask the wealthy to pay a bit more in taxes while cutting back expenditures in other areas. In a country that is experiencing one of the highest rates of unemployment in many decades and with an economy mired deep in a slump, Obama, the sitting President won over an opponent who should have beaten him, if not for his message which was neither clear nor appealing to the populace. Without missing a beat, Congress has indicated that they will not allow the President to implement the budget plan which the people voted him in on. We believe that the President is taking a reasonable position and one that has a better chance of balancing the books than that offered by the opposition which still wants to equip our military to fight the Soviet Bloc of the 60's and 70's. If we go by the usual pattern we have seen in government over the last four years, Congress will hold out, now because of some oath they have taken amongst themselves, never to raise taxes. That means their will be no meaningful negotiations. We the people cannot wait until 27 December to become engaged in this matter and must begin now to pressure our representatives in Congress and the Senate to act responsibly and stay away from the cliff. This is not a matter to play politics with. It is our future