THE PRESIDENT HAS A TERM LIMIT..CONGRESS NEEDS TERM LIMITS TOO. TERM LIMITS WOULD CURTAIL THE EFFECT LOBBYISTS AND BIG BSINESS HAVE ON OUR LIVES. THE NRA IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF BUYING CONGRESS.

I live in Washington, DC, not a state, not part of a state. I have no representation in the Senate or House and my vote can be over-ruled by representatives of states with fewer voters than DC. I live in the only country in the world where the citizens of the capital have fewer rights than people outside the capital. Many of us feel like we have been sidelined and have no voice in the current political discourse.

When visiting a few memorials the weekend.. it's becoming very obvious that security is few and far between. They have even closed a few of the tourist attractions due to NO security. We need our monuments open and the public to feel safe when visiting the Nations Capitol or anywhere else. We want an end to the Sequestration.

Air Force Chief of Staff Mark A. Welsh III says that 20% of women who volunteer for duty have already been sexually molested or are part of the "hook up" culture and therefore they get raped in the military. President Obama says our Military Members should know that the Commander in Chief has their back. Well prove it Mr. President. Fire General Mark Welsh for his ridiculous conclusion that service members arrive as damaged goods and therefore can be further sexually assaulted by those under his command. We fight wars abroad. Not AT HOME.

I would like to petition Congress and the President to read in public, the Constitution of the United States. Congress should read it in the chambers and the president should read it as a public address. My hope is that this will remind them of what our Constitution contains.

It is appalling that members of congress are not subject to the same laws as the rest of us. Their salary cannot be cut, they can trade stocks on legislation that will be passed and they have dream health care. We have to stop THEIR wastes. We end up suffering. They never do.

Terms of Congress should be two terms only. No benefits from working with the Congress for those two years: two and out.

35 hour work-week Tools were/are invented and used to save time and energy. They allow us to do more things, including having more “free” time to engage in other perhaps more enjoyable aspects of life. Industrialization did that to a great extent for civilization. So is our continuing advances in automation. The idea behind these advances is, or should be, to reduce the number of hours an average worker must put in on the job to accomplish the same feat. The average workweek in America did decline over the decades to reach 40 hours a week around World war 11. Since then, automation and efficiency have increased dramatically, but we are still stuck with a 40-hour workweek. This has been one of the reasons that we currently have such high unemployment-people still working 40 hours + a week while others are completely unemployed. We are long overdue for a legal reduction to a 35-hour workweek. If we did this, employers, especially corporations employing a large number of people, will be encouraged to hire more people to fill the gap rather then pay current employees time and a half overtime for that extra 5 hours needed to do the job. This would save parents some money reducing the amount of after school day care needed. The ultimate goal (in America) would be the 30-hour week. This would match America’s current school day. Some parents could then eliminate after school daycare altogether and allow some other families to become 2 earner families.

We are being led down a money trail that makes politicians wealthy, and they may not back the corporations with the best products and services.

The NRA and many other special interest groups lead Congress by the “nose“. Under current rules, politicians will go for the big campaign donations that special interest groups can easily award to either or both main parties. Special interest groups know that, in return for big campaign donations, they can get any legislation they want or can kill any legislation they do not want.

Congress takes money from our treasury for self-interests every day.

I, as well as many other people I am sure, have an idea that would solve many of our countries problems. We HAVE TO get rid of the party system. As long as representatives are calling themselves for the most part Democrat or Republican, the majority of our country is going to vote in Democrats or Republicans regardless of whether or not they agree with their policies. As of now, people treat politics like a football game. They don't care what the players are like on either team, they just want their team to win. If we get rid of the party system all together, and candidates only represent themselves by name, all the people in this country who are now voting Democrat or Republican (two parties of which are owned by big business and private banks) just because they would rather see their team win more so than having candidates in office that would actually help the country and the world, would no longer be able to do this. People would be FORCED to listen to each candidates ideas and policies, and instead of judge them by what party they represent, they would then be judging those candidates strictly by their character. This would have immediate, positive effects in our government being that most of the people voted into office would have been voted in because of their beliefs and who they are as a person. The two party system is the key player in the demise of our country and enables corporations and banking institutions to control the masses while giving the people what they think is "choice." It is anything but choice. As of now most people think they can vote blue or red. If you get rid of the party system, people's options open up to many, many more than just the two. I am positive this would work, but first, I would say another petition must be signed into office. The PEOPLE must have voting rights on anything and everything that will effect them even on a minor scale. No more can we allow politicians to vote for us. They are not passing legislation that is in the best interest of humanity, only in the best interest of themselves and their bank accounts. We have to give the rights back to the people first in order for them to vote whether or not their should be a party system, because the representatives of both major parties will shoot the idea of having no parties down immediately. It must be up to the people. After all, it is our lives. We should have more of a say.