Mayor Castro wants to raise San Antonio Homeowner taxes by nearly 30 million dollars to start redundant teacher training programs. This effort comes at a time when there is already a surplus of qualified and certified pre k teachers. Also, half day funding for pre k already exists.

As of May 2012, Governor Tom Corbett has taken away any car allowance to help low income people get a vehicle or get vehicle repairs to get them to school or to work. This is unacceptable! We want the allowance put back into affect immediately! You have a leased vehicle that costs taxpayers over $600 per month. Do your job and help the poor get back on their feet.

Mitt is running on one platform; to defeat President Obama. He has stated that his most important credential to do this is in creating jobs during his career, specifically at Bain Capital. Indications are that jobs were outsourced. Also, his assets are hidden in accounts outside the U.S. Voters of all stripes need to know the details of his business dealings in order to assess how Mitt's business practices will support his contention that he has, and will, create jobs. The most efficient and effective way to do this is to release a decade's worth of tax returns, as his father did a generation ago. This is especially important in light of the fact that the McCain ticket would not consider Romney as a running mate based on this information. Why should WE consider him. In four years, not much will have changed. VOTERS ARE ENTITLED TO THIS INFORMATION in order to make an informed decision in November.

The price of oil is set by the Futures Market, not by some non-partisan entity that calculates the supply and demand of that commodity. It is estimated that 1/3 the price of gas and diesel is due to speculation on Wall Street, and the hoarding of oil by large pension and hedge funds in storage facilities, tankers and containers. This must end, as the consumer pays this extortion rate through every gallon of gas he spends that is syphoned off through this speculative process.

The United State Postal Service USPS is attempting to close post offices, cutting jobs of workers and the many people who service the PO. Congress in its effort to privatize the PO made them pay for 75 years of pensions costing 5.5 B a year. Rural PO's particularly in impoverished counties are vital to residents without transportation or bank accounts.

Break the gridlock in Washington. The citizens out of work do not care which party create jobs They do care that jobs are created

Cost of living raises for low-wage workers and two weeks vacation time every year effective at date of hire. Ten paid sick days per year It is very difficult to keep up with the cost of living when you don't make a living wage in the first place. Also, too many places of employment make you wait at least one year before being eligible for any vacation time whatsoever. I have not had a private sector job that has offered paid sick days since 1993. These days if you are too sick to go to work, your pay gets docked making it even more difficult to pay the bills.

Jobs and the economy!!!

Economy

Republicans refuse to put forth in a bipartisian way, job creation for the unemployed, yet they mistakenly insist that the Democrats are not doing just that. It is time we called on the House and Senate Republicans and asked them to tell the American people why they are holding them hostage to an economy that can only be overcome with the Republicans being part of the solution. Right now they are part of the problem.

Earlier this year, a Federal Advisory Committee appointed by the Departments of Interior and Agriculture commenced work on creating a set of recommendations to establish and implement a 21st century Conservation Service Corps modeled after the Great Depression era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/new-conservation-service-corps-will-combat-unemployment.html#ixzz205lfEuHl

NAFTA should be amended to allow workers and unions the same rights of mobility that it extends to corporations.