Term Limits for Congress and Senate All other elected officials now not under term limits Balanced Federal Budget Annually

Until Congress is subject to the same insurance gaps, copays, and coinsurance, nothing will change.

Declare that the government of Idaho be responsiable for all its own medical coverage, pay into social security, abandon all contributions from lobbyists and declare a equal taxes for all companies no matter what the size or welth.

The Post Office, founded at the beginning of this country as an institution for the benefit of all citizens, has been desiccated by Congressional imposition of a crazy pension plan, that sabotages instead of utilizes available funding. It will take Congress to undo this.

The Post Office, founded at the beginning of this country as an institution for the benefit of all citizens, has been desiccated by Congressional imposition of a crazy pension plan, that sabotages instead of utilizes available funding. It will take Congress to undo this.

Jindal has strategically started this legislative session with issues that he knows will have low public participation from the target audience because of their jobs as teachers, state employees, other members of the schools or state retirement systems. These are all median to low wage earners. He has stacked all the committees with his appointees and made sure that there is no deviation to his republican ideological plan. There is no "for the people" in this man's mind yet he cloaks it in "for the children". How diabolical!

If AB2299 passes, then our government officials, elected and non-elected, including law enforcement officers, DMV employees, etc., will be able to hide their property ownership which is now a matter of public record. Why you ask? To quote a Press Democrat editorial, "Ostensibly, it's to protect them from the threat of personal harm from someone who could otherwise discover where they live. But when asked by the California Newspaper Publishers Association about the prevalence of this kind of hostility, the legislator's staff could not come up with a single example of a public safety officer having been harmed or threatened by way of information obtained in this fashion. We could find no record of any public official being threatened in this way, either." If this passes, then these government officials will be able to hide any ill gotten gains. Current public record allows an individual or a reporter to investigate possible corruption of "bought" elected officials, law enforcement officers, etc. We need to stop this from happening. With the current state of affairs in this country and state, we need more transparency not less. Please tell your representatives to stop this bill cold!

As of last year (2011) the government has taken away the adoption credit. Adoption whether through an agency or private attorneys is very expensive. It is such a shame that people like my husband and I who already have one adoptive child and have so much love to give to another child may not be able to ever adopt another baby because of the costs. Without bringing back the adoption credit many couples like us may never be able to adopt another child.

Help pave a better way for citizens to take more direct action in Utah government than just voting for politicians every couple years. We can pick the subjects as we go along. As now we could consider reforming the initiative process itself. Or finally doing something about the ethics reform, or what is your subject? Help build an internet list of 100,000 Utah registered voters willing to be contacted about proposing, and/or downloading and signing, to put various potential initiatives on the election ballots for the people to decide. This is a cumulative, on going process to build something re-usable. The CountMyVote initiative cost big bucks, but was taken seriously as it got close to success, and lead to a compromise. Time will tell if the new system will work or be undermined. We don't have big bucks--but we do have time on our side. Full disclosure: I am currently running for House District 46 as a Libertarian. They have no caucus system--I will be on the Ballot in November. When asked what good one Libertarian can do: I can say things people who want party funding can't. Like champion this route to put issues to the vote of the people.

Voting is the bedrock of our democracy: we should encourage every eligible voter to do so, not create additional and unnecessary obstacles.

Before Illinois can even begin to really tackle the really tough issues of budget, education, infastuture, we need to trust our elected leaders. With our past two Governors now in jail, we need the strongest ethics legislation passed now.

Every time the general assembly meets it is expensive to taxpayers. This is why we must end pay for extra and extended sessions. If this pay isn't brought to an end, we will continue to incentivize and subsidize the lack of leadership in the state assembly. How many other jobs get a bonus for stagnation (not counting Wall Street)? Usually subsidies are from the government to the private sector. Not in this instance. This is a case of the fox guarding the hen house.