Social Security is a vital lifeline for seniors, the disabled and handicapped and children. Corporations are trying to destroy the public good and privatize government by creating a myth of a bankrupt country. America is the wealthiest country and social security ensures that Americans live in dignity.

I work for less than $8.00 an hour. I rely on the government to help me meet basic needs to survive and many people are in the same boat. Lessen the amount of tax dollars paid out in food stamps, stimulate local economies and give people the ability to support themselves by raising the minimum wage to $9.50.

This petition is to encourage State legislators in Missouri to set a limit on interest rates for home loans, to help reduce predatory lending practices. Two of my siblings- hard working people who pay their bills on time and always have- lost their homes within the last two years, due to their lenders raising interest rates. And raising them, and raising them again. Until the payments became so ridiculously high that they had no hope of paying off the loans, at which point the lenders seized and kicked them out of homes they had been faithfully paying on for YEARS. This has to stop!

Kansas needs to support our veterans.

Congress will be back in Washington, D.C., on November 13 and they’ll be making high-stakes decisions on jobs, the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2%, and whether to cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid before the end of the year. Corporations and millionaires—who spent record amounts trying to buy the election for Mitt Romney—are going to be spending tens of millions on a full frontal assault in the halls of Congress to keep their special perks. Working families didn’t vote for further attacks on the middle class. Tell your Congress members: No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and no more tax cuts for the richest 2%.

Republicans, it is now time for you to STOP obstructing the passage of the Jobs Bill which is designed to help Veterans make the transition back to peacetime life.

Now that Obama is in his second term it is time for him to change course from shoring up the banks and Wall Street to listening to the Nobel Laureates. Many of us knew that the first mistake President Obama made was appointing Geithner and Summers. We have stayed faithful to him despite his vicissitudes. Now for the people's sake he should let Geithner, et al., go and appoint Joseph Stiglitz or Paul Krugman as his Secretary of the Treasury. We would also suggest Robert Reich, who's been brutally but truthfully critical of Obama's policies, but loyal to the people and the Democrats. It is time to emulate FDR and put the government to work for its citizens.

My Social Security monthly retirement benefit is being reduced because I worked a civil service job not covered by Social Security. I also worked jobs intermittently for almost 45 years wherein I paid into social security. I am being penalized and losing part of my social security because I had a civl service job. After the provision was passed, the government still collected the full amount even though they knew I could not receive my full social security benefit.

Due to the complete lack of Congress to act in a reasonable, rational manner, holding the people they represent hostage to their machinations, our country is facing a serious and potentially devastating crisis.

This issue needs to be settled before the Fiscal Cliff at the end of 2012. If this is not done then taxes will increase and severe budget cuts will automatically kick-in. This will cause disruption and could provoke a second recession.

The president of the United States and our congress are facing a time line of December 31st 2012 to make a decision on how to decrease our deficit, calling it the Fiscal Cliff. As a citizen of the great U.S., I believe in the fairness of the very rich to give a little more in taxes so we may continue supporting the issues some of us strongly believe in, such as education, unemployment benefits, global warming awareness, employment opportunities for our Vets, PBS, and much more.

In 2008, the electorate supported raising taxes on those making more than $250,000. But it didn't happen in Obama's first term, even though Obama in 2008 had taken the risk of telling people that's what he intended to do. Let's not let this opportunity slip through our fingers again. Don't accommodate Republicans and give up the opportunity for which we have fought.