why are you wasting time appealing and arguing over Obamacare 33 times? your focus as members of congress should be this country and what it needs. I realize Obamacare has its faults but it's not the focus point. The focus point you should be working on is how to create more jobs and jump start the economy again. Under former president Clinton this economy was the closest its been to the positive. that is what we need not arguing over a law that was passed through congress and signed by president Obama over 2 years ago. We the people of the United States of America want jobs and economic growth not bickering in congress.

My name is Maeve Semo. I am a volunteer firefighter. Recently there have been many cuts in emergency services all over the country. For example, in Pennsylvania all firefighters are now making minimum wage. These are the brave and women who risk their lives every day they go to work to save us. They are not being treated with the respect they deserve. When they leave their jobs because they can't afford to stay there who will be left to save us?

Various investigations have reported that some wealthy American citizens, banks, corporations, and other entities have been abusing our income tax structure for many years, avoiding by not paying their fair share of tax revenues, making use of off-shore foreign tax havens to do so. Consequently, their tax burden is lifted from their shoulders and placed on those of us who have chosen not to abuse the tax system.

Since Greenspan realigned Social Security in 1983, some major changes have been made by corporations to reduce their tax burden... and it includes creating income disparity as high as before the Great Depression. Greenspan set the contribution max level to hit 90% of income to employees with an increasing cap that is now $110K. But corporations began limiting salary increases to line employees and giving the boosts to those making MORE than the cap... so they no longer had to match the tax outlay but were not cutting total payroll, so it did not appear to be a down sized work force... but in fact, their pay was downsized to the point that they didn't keep up with inflation... moreover, the corporations didn't have to pay as much for Social Security contributions. So how do we fix it? We adjust the cap yearly so that it represents 90% of the payroll income in the US. That means more will be paid by corporations and there will be no more tax reasons to pile on disparate income levels at the upper echelons of the company. It MIGHT revise the way companies pay their people... Because it was in mid 1990s that Harvard put out a study that recommended that corporate salaries and perquisites be analyzed by the board of directors and that they should decide how much the top management should get and how to structure their performance bonuses... Problem is that many boards made the $ decision, but left out the performance requirements so we see corporate management taking home millions every year and even in bad years they get to take home far too much of the corporate bankroll. This is a decision that needs to be affected by instituting a tax on corporations equal to the difference between change in profit and the change in corporate management salaries. A negative change to profit should create a larger tax if they don't reduce the management salaries. IT CAN BE ARRANGED so that we no longer have to watch disparate income levels create millionaires of incompetent or so..so management. And that means we no longer have to worry as much about not having middle income oomph to keep our sales high enough that the economy continues to grow instead of falling... and taking down our ability to pay the debt now at $16Trillion dollars. It is merely an incentive to keep the economy running well rather than faltering for lack of middle class income to buy our products.

In order to pay for the past and future bailouts of our financial system, investors should pay a small tax to the government for every transaction that is made.

If the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, the GOP will lose their biggest bargaining chip in the upcoming deficit battle. The American middle class needs to stand up and just say NO MORE!!!

The Forgiveness Act 4 Homeowner's Who Lost Their Homes during the Economic Crisis will have their discharge from either a Short Sale, Foreclosure or Bankrupcy during 2004-2012 "forgiven" this opens up 2-3 Million home buyer's who will jump start the housing market and get them and their families back into home ownership. These Home Buyer's need to qualify on all other levels, debt to ratio, downpayment, income qualify. Simply put, this will stablize the housing market, absorp inventory and it supports related housing markets of: Mover's, Insurance, Title Companies, Appraiser's, Lawyer's, REALTOR's, Home Improvement, etc.

Currently there are on going talks between an investor group(involving chris hansen, steve ballmer and the nordstroms) and the city of seattle as well as king county councils, to bring a new state of the art arena into seattle in order to have an nba team and an nhl team play in seattle. Mr Hansen and his group has a memoranda of understanding between the city of seattles mayor(mcginn), and his investor group on the proposal to build a new arena. Mr Hansen and his group are asking for $200 million in public bonding to aid in the construction of this new arena, and have agreed to pay all other costs of construction, a new nba team and any cost overruns or shortfalls throughout a 30 year binding lease. The bonds would be paid back via any taxes collected on use of the building. If you don't go to games, or set foot in the building you would never have to worry about being charged for it. If approved this deal would create 1000's of jobs and bring in billions of dollars into the economy in king county and seattle!This deal is about as good as it gets, yet the councils are dragging their collective feet and appear to be looking for reasons to reject it. Tell them you want it! Say yes! Bring back our sonics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What happens when you don't pay your mortgage? When do we start paying down our debts? Your part of our national debt is growing every minute. Oh, Congress didn't tell you that to spend more money now they have decided to mortgage our future and the future of our children? Too bad. Now is time for you to act.

I would like to encourage every tax payer to read a book called the Fair Tax Plan, and then contact their congress men and women to create legislation to enact this plan. This is not a new idea and I have been a big fan for years, but every day it becomes more and more relevant due to the class warfare and the economy in this Country.

Multiplying the jobs initiative of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz

Asking Mitt Romney to come clean about his finances.