My name is Peter Gigliotti and a graduate from Rowan University with a degree in Radio, TV and Film production. I was working at a local TV station by my house (which closes 6/8) as well as a delivery driver at a bakery, but make just enough to cover my loan payments. Although I have applied elsewhere, I have had no success in finding another job. Even going on unemployment, it will leave me having to find around $200 for loans. This leaves me with no money to save for me to get my own apartment, or in emergency cases. Even on my family's health care plan, I haven't been to my doctor in almost 2 years because I literally can't afford the co-pay to go. I would ask for my parents' help in matters like this, but I can't because they have one child in college and another to go in. They have given me so much, and I know if they could help me, they would. Plain and simple, I need help and I have no where else to turn. Thank you very much for your consideration and I hope to be able to thank you personally. If anyone would like to meet with me personally, I would like to sit down and discuss my situation further.

Occupy Wall Street and, locally, Occupy Bloomington have galvanized national attention to growing economic inequality, the erosion of the social safety net, and the political assault on public schools, unions, collective bargaining, and the environment. Join IUB faculty and staff in applauding the Occupy movement for acting as the public conscience and drawing attention to the larger collective good.

Grover Norquist, a private citizen not an elected official, has developed a tax pledge that most Republican legislator's have signed. My petition is to inform the American people about the pledge and to have all legislators that we support to renounce the pledge.

President Obama is working diligently to address unemployment, housing foreclosures, and the burdens of student loans. He cannot do this alone. He needs aggressive and vigorous support from Congress. This is a petition asking members of Democratic Party Representatives in the House to speak out in support of the President's initiatives.

Please pledge to knit a hat to help keep folks at Occupy Wall Street warm this winter. As the mother of a child, I've been preoccupied lately with education, with health care, with housing. I want to provide for my child and I want everyone's kid to have access to these things, but I'm watching as everything gets more and more expensive for 99% of the people living in this country. In support of the folks standing up for a better future for all of our children we pledge to knit a hat to keep them warm this winter. http://www.facebook.com/pages/PreOccupied-Mommas/285498261471044?skip_nax_wizard=true

This petition will be compiled and presented to Oakland Mayor Quan.

So far, what the administration has done to help people in foreclosure have helped too few. Let's push it to do more! Rep. Anna Eshoo (Demo. from CA) has three proposals. The administration will only act if it sees the rest of us are behind them.

The nightmare of the Iraq War is finally coming to an end. Our soldiers will need jobs--lots of jobs, here at home. It's time to start serious investment in our own country's infrastructure if we want to thrive in the 21st Century. Every member of the fortunate, wealthy elite who have reaped, either directly or indirectly, so much profit from war must now pay their fair share in support of those who fought. The time has come for a Patriot Tax, in effect a sponsorship of every returning soldier. America is lagging far behind the rest of the civilized world in technologies such as high-speed rail, renewable energy, and even simple road and bridge maintenance. While we have been destroying and rebuilding overseas, America is crumbling. Do not allow our brave soldiers to come home to yet another nightmare of joblessness and despair. We can support our troops and rebuild America at the same time. It's the moral, patriotic thing to do.

This is not a petition for or against any entity. It is a declaration by people and a pledge that they will take a small simple action to improve the economy and create jobs by diverting $5 of their weekly budget to buy the same items but AMERICAN MADE rather than foreign. 100,000,000 people doing this would pump $500,000,000 dollars a week into our economy. American factories could buy more supplies and hire workers. Workers would buy products and pay taxes as would companies. This is totally patriotic and not at all political and we are not waiting for our government to quit arguing and actually do something!

This would be a very simple but effective way to put the burden of economic recovery directly on the institutions and individuals who caused our problem—Wall Street. The current protests against big banks and rich people have nothing to offer except frustration. If they adopted this plan as a cause, they could actually contribute something positive—something that would work.

Senator McConnell has, at every turn, sabotaged the efforts of the President and Congress to create jobs, including a filibuster to prevent even a portion of the President's jobs bill from being voted on. It's more important to him to defeat the President in 2012 than it is to feed an estimated 10 million American children who are "food insecure", or to help the millions of Americans who have no work and/or are losing their homes to foreclosure. He has utterly disregarded his solemn oath to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

Since the Republicans party has shown that they are not willing to do their jobs or listen to the will of the people!. By obstructing every attempt to improve this country's Economic and Employment situation! And buy not creating A single job since they have been in session! I pledge to put them on the unemployment lines!!!