This is the time for Lousiana to even the playing field with Texas and Florida for the long term. State income taxes is currently less than 15% of State reciepts for a bloated budget that can be balanced without an income tax. The incredible growth that would ensue in Louisiana, and the public fisc, would be outstanding for multiple decades.

"I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election." (Warren Buffett)

My granddaughter Destiny is currently in a foster home in Wilmington, NC. I feel that the court was wrong at giving custody to a non family member and not her grandparents. I feel that the laws in North Carolina should be changed where grandparents have the right to raise their grandchildren even if the parents has lost all parental rights. Governor Perdue has the authority to let the state decide and not the local counties in North Carolina.

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.

The "equal time" requirement for the press and public airwaves reporting on political opinion was taken out, very quietly, by congress during the Reagan years. It has allowed the dramatic increase in "hate politics" without any refutation, that is undermining American democracy. This petition calls upon Congress to restore a much needed means of civility.

Voting on entitlements, pay raises, health insurance plan, retirement plan, for Congress. Congress will no longer be aloud to vote in pay raises for themselves. we the people will vote for their entitlements.

In a time where health insurance is at an all time high, and some people stay at jobs just to ensure health benefits, is it right for our lawmakers to receive free healthcare, guaranteed pensions, three weeks paid vacation and unlimited paid sick days? Shouldn't the lawmakers of this country have to pay into and receive social security like everyone else? Why are they given better benefits than those they are representing on top of large salaries?

I'm sick and tired of our congressional representatives holding to party lines at the expense of the American people. We are being held hostage by their intractibility, ideologies, greed and stubbornness. I say this: if a representative or senator is resistant to compromise and if important legislation is stalled by that person, her or she should be voted out. It's simple to keep track of who is working across the aisle or not -- let's hold their feet to the fire if they don't cooperate, and let's start with this upcoming election.

I am a Minnesotain and I am ashamed of Michele Bachmann. Her hate and unsupported statements continue to ruin peoples' lives from around the country. It's time that we DEMAND her removal from Congress, either by her own will, or by pressure from her own party and the US at large.

i think we have all been affected, by this do nothing congress. if most or all members had been in the public sector with a work record like this they would have been fired.

The Tea Party has spent a lot of energy insisting that in order to collect unemployment, welfare or any other form of government assistance, that we need to drug test the recipents. We need put to a vote the concept of buying a weapon requires a clean drug test too.

Preventing gun and ammo purcheses on the internet.