The Eugene, OR City Mgr. budgeted to add artwork to hang of office walls -whilst at the same time decided to close the city's Lane County Animal Shelter. The money spent for the art work would keep the Shelter open for a whole year. The Mayor and City Council needs to change these budget items

To create more jobs with funding

The Presdent and Congress have failed pass a budget or deal with the so called "Fiscal Cliff". This is a start.

Passage of a Highway Bill will stimulate the economy and prevent damage to person and property due to the decayed status of our highway infrastructure.

This proposal will put America back to work and clean it up, for the sake of our children, at the same time by creating millions of new green jobs, make millions of regular jobs and workplaces continually greener, as well as make millions of homes cleaner and healthier too.

Jobs, Bush's Tax Cut for the Wealthy and Obstructionist Congress

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.