Free trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA have decimated the US manufacturing base in large part because many of our trade partners operate without the protections for workers rights, safety, or a decent wage. Many also aren't subject to environmental standards we respect, like the Clean Air Act. With a fair playing field, we can better compete and bring more manufacturing jobs back to the US, as well as improve environmental, labor and safety standards worldwide.

Tax laws and savvy accountants have allowed corporations to bend the rules, cheat the system and ultimately avoid paying their fair share to the U.S. economy. Its time to take a hard stance on these corporations and get them to pony up what they owe to the American people. For example, a recent New York Times article states that Apple has "found legal ways to allocate about 70 percent of its profits overseas, where tax rates are often much lower". This has deprived the U.S. economy of an estimated 2 BILLION dollars in tax revenue in 2011 alone. Folks, that's one corporation in the technology sector. Tax loopholes are exploited every year across all sectors of business. It's time to seal the cracks and rebuild America!

Why has Speaker Bohnmer stopped the Farm Bill from coming to the floor for a vote?

EMILY's List just announced that they're going to attack Chris Donovan on behalf of Elizabeth Esty, and according to their own press release, they're relying on some of the worst right-wing framing to do it. When Donovan and Esty both served in Hartford, Donovan led Democrats in passing a budget that raised taxes on millionaires in order to protect education and health care funding. Esty led a renegade group that wrote a more conservative budget that made deep cuts in the programs progressives care about. Donovan has fought for fair wages, access to healthcare, funding for education, voting rights, and fair taxes. These are the very issues conscientious citizens see as priorities to building a fair and equitable society. But EMILY's List is attacking Donovan for his "record on taxes" and praising Esty for "returning taxpayer money." They call right-wing budget cuts "responsible budgeting." These attacks are based on code words that right-wingers use, and they don't belong in a Democratic primary.

As Americans nothing is totally private anymore, Romney refuses to disclose his tax records, if we have to because of college and other reason so should he ...Please sign my petition if you think NO politician is EXEMPT!!!!!!!!

Disclose tax returns for the past 12 years

In lieu of the attacks on the poorer people of Pennsylvania, alternative plans have been made to convince the Governor (Tom Corbett) to reconsider the manner in which he has been introducing bills. Sign this petition to join in the collective efforts of the Harmonious Volunteer Center. Visit our website and become a member of a movement to create Jobs.

Gov. Romney should release his tax returns. His failure to do so only furthers the belief that he feels he is above everyone else

A large number of families are living on welfare. Take the money they get paid, and have them rebuild the infrastructure of our nation to earn it.

Creating a foreclosure elimination fund to help homeowners keep their home, or pay down their mortgage substantially. I have seen my neighbor lose his home to foreclosure. The property is currently for sale.

Bain Capital owns Sensata Technologies, which bought the plant where I work in Freeport, Illinois two years ago. Now, Sensata plans to ship our jobs to China. I don’t know what I’m going to do if I lose my job, and I'm not alone. 165 American workers are set to be laid off from the Freeport plant. Mitt Romney's friends at Bain Capital have the power to stop these 165 jobs from being shipped to China. All they have to do is pick up the phone.

Housing drives the U.S. economy. That is not happening now, and will not happen as long as the foreclosure crisis is permitted to continue. Milions of Americans have lost their homes through foreclosure; a substantial number of which were fraudulent. Millions more face the same fate this year and beyond. Millions of foreclosed upon homes have been dumped on the market (by the banks) resulting in a depressed real estate market and billions of dollars in lost equity by home owners who are current on their loans. What is lost midst all the statistics and issues are the children; thousands of innocent children who are now homeless and frightened. It is a national disgrace. Banks and other lenders destroyed our economy and caused the housing crisis; they will not fix it. Every American homeowner is affected and needs relief from this disasterous situation. Please support this movement to end the crisis. Please sign this petition urging President Obama to declare a three year nation-wide moratorium on foreclosures and on the re-sale of foreclosed upon homes. The moratorium will force lenders to resolve the issues with homeowners on a case-by-case basis.The moratorium will have an immediate effect on the economy by replacing the current atmosphere of fear and anxiety with one of hope and optimism. Please support this effort; we need 10,000 signatures by July 31st. Please forward this message to everyone you know. Please sign this petition to President Barack Obama