Congress has done nothing for the people they represent. I believe that stricter term limits (4, 4 year terms) should be enforced. The do nothing legislators are driving the country over an economic cliff

The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon arguments that the facility is unnecessary and Democratic complaints that the nearly $5 billion project amounts to wasteful spending in a time of tight budgets. House Pressing Ahead With Higher 2013 Defense Budget Than Obama Proposal By ROBERT BURNS and DONNA CASSATA 05/09/12 10:13 PM ET AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/pentagon-budget-house-obama-cuts_n_1502898.html

Introduced by The "Democratic-Republican" Party in NJ, the "Change the Rules" Pledge offers an elegant and unimpeachable solution to campaign finance reform, recently emasculated by the "Citizens United" decision. Senate Candidate Eugene M. LaVergne Congressional Candidates Frederick John LaVergne (NJ District 3) and Len Marshall (NJ District 4), and County Freeholder Candidates Scott Neuman and Tracy M Caprioni of Ocean County and Donald E Letton and Kim Johnson of Burlington County all signed the pledge at a Rally for the "Article the First" lawsuit, "LaVergne v Bryson" et al, on September 15th in front of Independence Hall. Read the pledge, and forward it to YOUR elected officials. We've already sent it, but it is far better that you do. Please also sign the petition here. To support the Article the First suit, another petition will be circulated. Thank you in advance for your support.

Due to the shrinking amount of first-class mail, Patrick R. Donahoe, the postmaster general, has made the appalling decision to bolster their bottom line by cutting deals with companies and marketing firms to increase their junk mail. City governments are left holding the bill for the disposal of all this additional junk mail.

Public lands are being taken over and monopolized by the elite 1% who profit by the below cost programs for their exclusive benefit. These profiteers are often foreign corporations. I live in an in holding surrounded by National Forest Land. I have suffered continual abuse by hunters that consider my property part of their hunting grounds and trespass as a heritage right. I have observed that the Forest Service does not abide by their own rules and is more interested in marketing and destroying our forests than protecting them. Further the USFS is more responsive to hunting and pro gun factions than the majority of other forest users or respecting private property.

Please stop privatizing the work of the US Government and Our State Governments. The Post Office, jails and public schools need to be properly funded, and not made into profit making businesses that cost the tax payers much more. Privatization is much more costly, and inefficient. Also, Somehow private companies will cut too many corners and their administrators are the only ones who get the benefits.

In discussions with my friends and relatives, including Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, I have found a nearly universal agreement on one basic theme: Our elected officials are consistently playing partisan politics, rather than working together to solve the economic crisis. The reality of the political environment, however, is sufficiently balanced that neither party can impose its solutions without negotiation with the opposing party. That is, real progress on solving our economic problems will require cooperation and compromise. I am therefor asking the candidates for President and Vice President of both parties to begin now to lead their parties away from the counter-productive, contentious partisan politics of the recent past into a period of cooperative political leadership necessary to address the serious risks to our country’s and our individual well-being during the present world-wide economic turmoil.

Currently a county commisioner in Wyoming is elected at large. This allows unequal representation in several counties where the towns and cities have no representation and money is unequally spent. If districts are formed rather than at large people will be equally represented. It takes an act of the state legislature to insure equality.

The following petition was started by me after my grandson was taken from my home in Phoenix, AZ by CPS of Riverside County, California. In 2011 my daughter and son-in-law lived in California. They had an open case with CPS. I'm not sure why they had a case and they were not sure why they had a case. CPS opened the case because in 2010 they took my granddaughter from them when they got a phone call from a relative who had an ax to grind. So on the word of someone who didn't even live in the same state they went to my daughters house and took her little girl. My daughter was never accused of anything. My son-in-law tested positive for Marijuana and he went through their drug program month after month and tested clean every time he was called. They both did everything they were asked to do, however CPS and the so called family court forcibly adopted my granddaughter out. They actually sent her out of the state before the case was closed. When my grandson was born about 6 months later they were right there. They never took custody of him but they insisted on following my kids home so they could see if everything was suitable according to their standards and they opened a case. Once again my daughter and her husband had to go through the parenting classes and once again my son-in-law had to go for drug testing even though he tested clean every time, and once again they had to talk with counselors and advisors, and a whole long list of people who never raised a child in their life, etc. There case was supposed to be closed in May, however when they got into court the case worker asked the judge to leave it open because some member of their entourage had missed one appointment with my daughter and her husband. The reason she had missed the appointment was because she didn't show up. In fact this woman had told my daughter over the phone that it really wasn't that important. The truth was she had not shown up for most of their other appointments either but she had marked them in the records as completed. The Judge left the case open as he was told to do. In July my daughter and her husband became homeless after losing their jobs. It's very difficult to jump through the CPS hoops and still maintain your work schedule or do a job search. When my daughter called me about their situation I told her to get on the bus with her husband and the baby and come to my place in Arizona so they did. After looking for work locally and not having much luck they left the baby in my custody and went to another state to follow up on other possible opportunities. In the mean time I was taking care of my grandson (David). We were having a good time shopping for toys, some baby furniture and cloths. We were preparing to take a trip to Oregon in December and spend Christmas with David's Great Grandmother, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. My other 2 grandsons were looking forward to meeting him and they had presents for him under the tree. We were scheduled to leave on Wednesday. On Monday the police showed up at my door along with a CPS case worker from California. They had an Order Of Protection warrant issued by a Federal Court Judge. I couldn't believe it. A CPS case worker in Riverside County, California had gone to a judge and was granted a bench warrant charging my daughter and her husband with kidnap and then she used that warrant to get a federal judge to grant the Order of Protection warrant. I thought that federal warrant was only for cases where a child was in danger. My daughter and her husband had never ever in their entire married life together been charged with or even accused of abuse of any kind what so ever. They were never abusive yet this woman who was able to do this to my grandson. I say to my grandson because he was taken from his family who loves him so very much and put into a home with strangers who take care of children for money. Now 8 months later we are still fighting to get him back. His Great Grandmother turned 97 in May. She might never get to see him. Every time I talk with her she asks about David. I don’t know what to tell her. What can you say about a system that has the power of Hitler’s SS Troops. They run the court. They rule the Judge. Hearings are closed to the public. Whatever the CPS case worker says is accepted without question, if they are investigated they do it themselves. When a child is David's age they forget quickly. By the time we do get him home with his family where he belongs he will have to go through the process of separation all over again. Children don't consciously remember much of what happens to them before the age of five, however it does effect their entire life. Not being able to remember is what can makes it so damaging. It is easier to deal with things you can remember. Taking a child from a loving family for no real good reason and placing them with strangers is abuse. Right now my grandson is being abused, by the County of Riverside, California by the state of California, by the Federal court system, and by The National Child Protection Act of 1993 a system that rewards the CPS agency for destroying American Families. I'm sure that was not what was intended by those who brought this act to fruition however that is what is happening. Since this horrible thing has come into our lives I have been searching the internet and news papers and I have found thousands of other American families who have suffered the same fate. Children removed from their home for some minor reason, held in captivity for a year or more, adopted out to strangers. You have to ask yourself why. What is in it for the agency. An agency that’s always complaining about their work load. The answer of course is Money. The abuse of American children is funding the payroll for a lot of employees who would otherwise be looking for a job.

Federal, State & Local governments are all financially strapped, yet public officials who are comfortably well to do continue to draw salaries from tax payers' dollars. They tell us to tighten our belts, lay off teachers & first responders & make do with reduced services. Start at the top! Reduce your own salaries or stop taking them if you don't NEED them.

I'm a single father of a special needs baby on SSDI. I want to know what Scott thinks of us and the other 47ers in Colorado. Do you agree that we are lazy victims, like some demon version of Oliver Twist?

http://the-scientist.com/2012/09/19/sequestration-threatens-science/ If Congress can’t reach an agreement on reducing the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion, automatic decreases to key federal science agency budgets go into effect.