We've been watching jobs get outsourced overseas for decades by the very same companies that are getting tax breaks and bailouts to keep them competitive. We need to incentivize domestic job creation, and remove incentives not tied to job creation.

It's about providing SEED MONEY to Americans who come up with bright, new ideas that will profit the individual, the community and the Nation.

IRS Code on the amount of taxable income at which Social Security Benefits become taxable has not been adjusted for inflation since it was implimented in1983. Until 1983 there was no income tax on Social Security benefit income. I am a 99% person and pay income tax on 85% of my Social Security yearly benefits to me and my wife because our adjusted gross taxable income is over $35000. Middle class retired people need a brake!

I am continually bombarded with insulting fabricated lies from GOP supporters showing how liberals are bringing the country down. Its time the dems fight back with plenty of '3 -d pictures' of progress no matter how slowly we are bringing th country back from the depths of the second worst recession created by the previous two administrations. The 'general not readily exposed to the truth public' should have access to facts they can easily grasp - show the progress in pictures. Democratic marketing people can depict progress in a movie 3D DreamWorks style. Make it playful but with serious fact laden high impact visuals and go viral on social network sites across the nation and the rest of planet earth. Let the truth determine who runs the nation.

The Illinois Toll Authority raised rates so that the toll on a lightweight single axle trailer is now 6 times what it was, and is 3 times more than a car pulling it. The rate used to be half the cost of a passenger car. It should be reversed to the old rate, or at least not more than a passenger car. Families pulling a pop-up camper or personal watercraft, now pay 3 times more for their trailer than their car. The reduced overnight rate is also illogical, because in order to save 12 percent, you have to drive in the dark, which is less safe.

Simplify the tax code, eliminate the IRS, save $10 billion annually, along with all of the stress and headache associated with the tax code. All IRS workers can be re-deployed as AmeriCorps workers, helping the country grow progressively rather than hampering it.

I have been frustrated for years knowing that the oil companies are the reason there is no modern rail system in the USA. It is criminal that we have no alternative to travel other than gas guzzling vehicles. Republicans and Democrats both seem muzzled. Florida scrapped network rail plan and more recently Wisconsin. How can this be happening? Talk about Obama' stimulus plans....... Why no move toward developing a national rail network? Think of the jobs created building a rail system. The Europeans and Asian governments not only don't allow the private interests to control their countries destinies they realize what is best for their people en masse : mass transit.

We produce what we need with fewer workers so let's reduce the workday to six hours. You could potentially create 1/3 rd more jobs. If companies wanted to keep an 8 hour day, they could just pay overtime for over 6 hours. We could put the unemployed and those on welfare to work. They would be paying taxes instead of needing government benefits to survive.

More and more Americans are having serious trouble affording a college education every day, while more and more college professors are finding students woefully unprepared on basic academic and life skills, and while many employers are discounting applicants without a college education and often still complaining that people fresh from college don't have the skills they need. All of these stresses could be lessened by enhancing our current K-12 programs, including teaching students important job skills that can easily be learned by experience. Give high school grads a fighting chance in the job market by allowing them to graduate with real world experience and skills that prepare them to begin working in a trade as soon as they graduate.

The GOP wants you to believe that President Obama's efforts over the last four years have somehow hurt the country - when the fact is, he saved the auto industry, implemented healthcare reform, made it easier for women to make equal pay, saved us from an international terrorist and ended a war that was started for all the wrong reasons. We need to get the message out loud and clear - WE ARE BETTER OFF, and we're not going back to the policies and practices that took us so close to the bring in the first place! Add YOUR name to the list!

Mandate that Special Hiring Coordinators, charged with achieving President Obama's 7% goal of the percentage of disabled employees in the federal workforce, actually submit the resumes of the disabled for positions PRE-PUBLICATION as recommended by OPM guidelines. Currently, these coordinators refer disabled candidates to USA.jobs to compete with able bodied, and current federal employees. Despite 25 years of solid IT experience, I have applied for over 100 federal jobs and have not received ONE interview. I am Schedule A disabled. Despite over 20 years of solid experience and a graduate degree, and over 100 federal applications, my wife has received MANY "referred but not selected" notices. She is Schedule A disabled. Selective Hiring Coordinators should present the resumes of the disabled as recommended by the OPM. You can't maintain a vibrant federal workforce with the best and brightest from diverse applicants, without allowing experienced people a fair chance.

I am petitioning the government to establish a North American water works system to distribute fresh water throughout North America to end droughts forever.