A very simple way to bring down gasoline prices is to require that all gasoline powered vehicles in the United States operate on the same grade of gasoline. This can significantly reduce costs for refining, storing, and transporting different grades of gasoline. Auto makers already comply with many regulations, and this is easy for them. This requires no new technology, no new infrastructure, and only simple changes in the design of a small minority of vehicles. There is no good reason for having multiple grades of gasoline.

As it now stands, only the first 110,000 of a worker's wages are Social Secuirty taxable. All of a worker's are Medicare taxable. So if someone makes 110,000 maximum in a year, all of those wages are Social Secuirty taxable. But - if someone else makes 500,000 in a year, only 110,000 of those wages are Social Security taxable. Why? Makes no sense. If all wages were Social Security taxable and the government kept their hands off this money and used it for Social Security only, I believe the Social Security program would be solvent.

The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 is due to expire in December of 2012. Even people who have managed to maintain good credit are finding that their homes may be worth as much as one third of their mortgage. We need to make this Act permanent for all those homeowners who are struggling with their mortgages and may ultimately end of losing their homes, thus inccurring a new tax debt for nonpayment of the mortgage of tens of thousandsor even a hundred thousand dollars or more.

Cites a TED talk that was inappropriately pulled by TED curator for being too political, when in fact it's just about economics that conservative politician don't like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bBx2Y5HhplI

My name is Myrna, from Kingston, New York. I am a low-wage worker, making just over the minimum wage. It's impossible to make ends meet. I wait until 5pm to go grocery shopping, because I can get bread at a discount. I just hope I can provide a better future for my daughter. The minimum wage in New York is just $7.25/hr. That's just over $15,000 a year. That's a poverty wage, and no family in New York should have to survive on it. My family, like hundreds of thousands of low wage workers across New York, deserves a raise. Governor Cuomo has proved he can get his priorities done in Albany. Now Governor Cuomo should show that he cares about low-income families like mine, and not just about the demands of big corporations. When gambling bigwigs showed up with big contributions for the Committee to Save New York, Gov. Cuomo listened. Low-wage families don't have millions of dollars. But we need Gov. Cuomo's help too. The Assembly has passed a bill to raise the minimum wage. But it will take Governor Cuomo's leadership to pass it in the Senate.

American Companies get tax breaks for creating jobs overseas. This should be stopped. Also, all companies that outsource American jobs overseas and lays off workers to do so, should pay that employees taxes, until the laid off employee finds a job. All taxes, City, County, Township, State, Federal. This way the tax base is not eroded or undermined by Corporate greed.

With the Euro economy struggling, Republicans breathing down Pres. Obama's neck with all of their money to oust him, repeated efforts to create US jobs with republican opposition (unless it is for big oil), I'd like to appeal to my fellow Americans, to go out and buy something American. Recent data shows that productivity is down... which means that those of us who have been fortunate enough to work, are now tired of our overload... and this is going to force companies to hire.... IF... the demand for products stays up. So, go out there and be a good-demanding-American! Go buy something! But be planful... pick an American product, or American friendly product, or democratic friendly product, and help keep up the demand. Help create new jobs through your purchasing power, help "vote" through your purchasing power, help keep our economy going. Make it harder on the Obama haters to hate. Rise to this American Challenge! Show the Kock brothers, Karl Rove, Trump, Rush and the republicans who love to hate, that we are going to take back our country despite their twisted agenda.

Quinn, Pat 217-782-6830 Work Unit:GOVERNOR Agency:GOVERNOR, OFFICE OF THE Address:401 S SECOND STREET CAPITOL BUILDING RM 207 SPRINGFIELD IL 62706 - 1150 Please help the cause by calling our Governor and asking him to sign the gaming bill. Harness horsemen are moving east or quitting. My farm will be next. Please help.

Through employer tax incentives, provide the option for applicable businesses to allow those employees who have the ability to work from their home to do so to channel the money from the gas tank which benefits the oil companies to local economies and to contribute to a greener and healthier environment.

Spend and Hire for Our President is about doing all we can to boost the economy and help President Obama get re-elected. If you have the ability to make that extra purchase, buy that house or hire another worker, then do it now!

Safeway just went to the bargaining table with some of it's unions in Northern California. The contract presented takes away full time "status", (even if they work a full eight hours, they won't receive full time employee benefits) overtime, holiday pay, and any medical care costs would be paid as a whole by the employees themselves with no aid from Safeway at all. Most of their employees, like many of us, have families to support and cannot lose pay during a strike lest their families go hungry. As a customer, and a non-Safeway employee I am outraged and calling on my fellow labor supporters to help these people before SAFEWAY becomes SLAVEWAY!

The President and Congress are uninformed of the fact that Super Energy Efficient housing (SEE for short) can help to solve many of the major problems facing our nation and the world today. Building all of our new homes and converting our existing homes to be SEE can help to: 1) Quickly create construction, distribution, and manufacturing jobs, 2) Help to stimulate today’s economy and assure a vibrant long-term economy, 3) Help citizens to save money immediately and more money in the future, 4) Help to cutback on pollution and save our environment, 5) Help to cut dependence on foreign energy sources, 6) AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, not be another never-ending and expensive Federal Government program. We are calling on the President and Congress to look at this solution as a way to help to address the major problems that are facing the United States today. FMI on Super Energy Efficient housing, please refer to the book, “SEE” The EMPOWERING Energy Solution.