There currently is no insurance protection available for self-employed workers in the U.S., this creates immense hardship for workers when they are sick or injured while at work. We should have an available program to join similar to the Workman's Compensation program available to "employees".

changing the laws which allow State and Federal senators retirement packages. This huge drain on our resources might be corrected and free up an enormous amount of money. Why care? We the ordinary people simply can't afford the expense. We need to firmly yet kindly let our representatives know that we can't afford to carry the dead wood any longer.

$16 Trillion or so and counting! Stop the Spending!!!

The Illinois legislature wants to decrease pension benefits for those who are receiving a pension. This decrease in income will be a hardship for those who will have to choose between eating and buying medicine. Teachers have fulfilled their part by working and contributing for as much as 30 years. Now the legislature wants to void the Constitutional right which, according to the constitution will not be changed.

Big money has taken over politics to an even greater degree and the people have very little chance of changing that. We can, however, gain some needed resources to support education, economic development, and human services.

Curb the outsourcing of American jobs to citizens of other countries. Reduce the wage-deflating effect of cheap foreign labor. Improve employment rates here in the USA. Have pride in our American workforce!

This petition is insure that property taxes are fair. My petition is that the State of Michigan will limit the annual payment of Property Taxes to 5% of the assesed property value.

We invest our money in a public bank we control,we save a ton of money from "special interests". We also have economic freedom from "debt slavery"(30yr mortgauges,etc..) Thomas Paine(1776) "Why let others do what we can do ourselfs"? It`s common sense,we need the modern economic kings as much as we needed England back 1776. A public bank is a economic declaration of independence !

Student loan debt is crushing students like never before and as a result, graduates are unable to afford a decent lifestyle of even just the basics. Given the fact that education is fundamental belief and value in this country as well as the bedrock to the success of the economy, if students are required shoulder the burden of debt, it should at least be an interest free loan.

Arkansas Senators Mark Pryor and John Boozman have a chance to support the Bring Jobs Home Act (S. 2884), which would eliminate the tax incentives that outsourcing companies get when they ship jobs overseas and reward companies that bring jobs back.

We need to send House GOP packing so that President Obama can do the work that "we, the people" sent him to DC to do. In their goal to make him a one-term president, they have made a bigger mess of an already dysfunctional branch of Congress.

We believe that the Agreement prepared in secrecy and made ready for approval by the participating Nations--and designed to provide them with an unfair advantage in manufacturing and jobs and the benefits of trade-- should be revoked for the following reasons. It was done in total secrecy; the only ones told about it were the participating nations and certain American businessmen who stood to gain; not the citizenry, mind you.. It smacks of NAFTA. It would shift more jobs off-shore. And make disputes subject to settlement by private businessmen who's decision is final. Cases pending or resolved under NAFTA did not work out for this country; and they involved major fines paid for by US taxpayer funds without the option of defending ourselves or our positions in the law suits. We've seen what happens when Democracy is short changed in this way and the American people do not have a voice in policy; moreover, the economic benefits will serve the big, successful companies, they will not benefit the poor, or the middle class.