My Son Shawn was interested in taking this class...it is a good opportunity for many children...this is a high paying job and should not have been removed from the school...my son wanted to get on the pipeline with his Dad...not sure why it was removed,if they might think there is not enough welding jobs in the area or what?Good welding jobs require traveling,but all good jobs usually require traveling...Thank You

Please end the VA Regional Office backlog for veterans who are suffering severe financial hardship. Ensuring our nation's Veteran's receive the benefits they were promised and deserve.

Abandon Obama care or modify it. Change Obama Care: Everyone working full time will be caused to work 28 hrs examples This is how Raley's and Bell Air treats their employees if your hours were cut to 28 from 40 hrs. They will lose their benefits next year because of Obama Care. Anyone with 28 hours is part time and all employees by Jan 1 2014 will have no benefits. almost all employers will opt out of providing insurance under Obama care the fine is cheaper than the cost of insurance $2k verses $5k cost the company for medical so everyone will be on Obama care. Gov. Subsidy insurance. Increase the fine to $10,000.00 for not providing insurance to employees. The unemployment rate went down because part time employment is up because they are trying to replace all full time employees with part time. How could you survive with 28 hrs. Wk. most people are holding down 2 part time jobs at minimum wage. Do the math $7.75 hr. x28 = $217.00 week x4.3 = $993.00 by the time you pay rent you have nothing left. It would be far better to require the employer to pay ½ toward their medical insurance. Than have all unemployed and supporting their medical because they won’t be able to pay the penalty for not having insurance. The 40 hour work week employment has dropped while part time has increased. True unemployment is close to 20%. This is not a friendly atmosphere to work in when you never know when your medical will be dropped. You will have all employees on Obama care because they will not be able to afford even the penalties. Current Obama care has lowered the middle class to poverty levels. Companies have already started to cut full time employees with 40 hrs to 28 hrs. Raley’s has paid an attorney $10 Million dollars for his services to break the union. With Obama care this will help the lawyer to do his job.. Solution: Abandon Obama care or modify it. Requiring companies with 29 employees or more to provide affordable insurance. To all employees full time or part time and to pay half of the premiums. Requiring employers to give employees with more than 1 yrs of employment 40 hrs work week. Restricting their part time employment to about 10% Increase fine to $10k for each employee not provided with affordable insurance. Raley's/Bell Air grocery chain vows to impose wage cuts Submitted by News10 Web Staff Monday, October 29th, 2012, 5:27pm Topics: News SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - As employees at one of Northern California's largest supermarket chains prepare to strike, the company says it will unilaterally impose a proposed labor contract that would reduce its workers' wages. The Sacramento Bee reports that Raley's supermarkets said it would implement its final contract offer on Thursday to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Raley's said the union failed to offer an up-and-down vote to its members on the contract offer, which included a two-year wage freeze. Raley's worker Ronda Zanelli, a 32-year veteran, told the paper that no one wants to strike but that they are prepared to do so. It would be the first labor strike in the West Sacramento-based company's 77-year history. The company has announced that all non-management positions will have their hours reduced to 28 a week. Gary Burdette, Vice President of Operations for the local franchise, says the cuts are coming because the new Affordable Health Care Act requires employers to offer health insurance to employees working 32-38 hours a week. Under the current law they are not considered full time and that as a small business owner, he can't afford to stay in operation and pay for everyone's health insurance. There are 11 Wendy's restaurants in the metro. “It has a huge effect on me and pretty much everybody that I work with,” says Growbeck, who understands the reasoning and says other part-timers at other fast-food restaurants are facing the same problem. “I'm hoping that I can get some sort of promotion because then I would get my hours, but everybody is shooting for that because of the hours being cut.” Burdette says the decision affects around 100 employees. It was a tough one and he understands why people are upset, but the hour reduction is effective in two weeks for all non-management. Management employees will continue to have benefits as they are officially full time. Thank you Obama care for cutting my son's hours @ work. He is working @ McDonald's w/ 38 hours a week now 28. He will be job hunting now. CLOSE BANKS LOOP HOLE THAT LIKE B OF A PAYS NO TAX THAT WE GAVE BAIL OUT MONEY TOO. MUST PAY TAXES HAVE THESE TAX RIGHT OFF AND PAY NO TAXES MAKE CORPORATE TAX A FLAT FEE OF 10-12 %.A cancer diagnosis can be shocking; but learning that you have cancer when it is too late to reverse the damage is devastating. Often patients are too overwhelmed by the disease itself to consider pursuing legal action. However, the burden on an entire family's time, emotions and financial resources is immense, and if the disease could have been prevented by more thorough care from health care professionals, financial compensation should be required. This is another balloon ready to pop; false economy when most investors are buying homes from banks and not private citizens. Require all realtors one week before they can submit their offers to bank and submit all offers not the one they think will qualify.

US health insurance companies operate as for-profit publicly traded companies, recently reporting record profits at the same time they deny coverage, rescind coverage, and deny claims. No other nation on the planet permits health insurance companies to profit from patient care (or lack thereof). It is the wrong model for our nation and needs to change!

The legislature has attempted to enact a medical MJ law in New York. There are many thousands of New Yorkers, myself amongst them. who have total & permanent disabilities which will end only with out deaths. We pay our taxes, obey the laws. We've needed relief from the pain and suffering our disabilities have caused us since the 1960s that this wonder drug will bring. In the absence of equal protection & equal Justice before the laws of New York which a medical MJ law would bring us, we are routinely Discriminated against by employers prejudiced against us. We need the dignity that regular employment will afford us now more than ever due to the creeping hyperinflation which the Federal Government has allowed by permitting the Federal Reserve to over print currency thus devaluing the buying power of our dollars. For those of us especialy who are retired, that bad monentary policy seeks to make Social Security into a poverty program. We disabled citizens all have a right to work, and a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. New York is a right to work State. We ask only for what is owed us: the freedom from hunger, freedom from fear which were amongst FDR's 4 Freedoms. It is even more unjust to war against injured people as it is against nations. We and the natural medicine we need to relieve our suffering are not the issue. It's the injury of the injustice of keeping us from our legitimate medicine which is the issue. Ignorance, prejudice, indifference are not a just basis to perpetuate the privation we experience. We petition to have the medical profession determine our right to prescriptions, not cops.

As a social worker and native of South Carolina, I have seen first hand the consequences of our under-funded health and mental health systems. The entire state will be harmed by failing to accept funds available under the Affordable Care Act to extend services to more poor citizens, especially in light of cuts in the state budget over the past few years.

The long-term supports that we seek to keep out of KanCare consist of a variety of services ranging from personal care for those with serious intellectual disabilities to help finding and keeping jobs. These supports do not fit the medical model that MCO's provide. Currently we have seen devastating results including MCO's interfering with medications, PCP's assigned miles away, providers who are not getting paid, a deep lack of understanding by the MCO's and the government on what it takes to care for individuals with intellectual disabilities long term.

The United States spends (wastes) more money and has poorer outcomes than most Western and some Third World countries. Even poor Cuba devotes 70% of its budget to health care, social service and education and every citizen (and tourists) receives free health care. We have no excuse for having such a bad record of health care in the U.S. Support a Single Payer Universal Health Care bill in California to be the model for the nation. We need a new bill. Contact your State Senator and Assembly person and request that they author a bill such as the previous AB810.

Texas Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) has just authored and filed House Joint Resolution (HJR) 125, an amendment to the Texas Constitution that, if enacted into law, would guarantee each Texan the individual right to access whatever health care treatment they choose, and would protect the rights of practitioners to offer those treatments and modalities. To read the purpose & specifics of this amendment, please visit: http://texashealthfreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WHITE-PAPER-ON-HJR-125.pdf

Although Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Act was supported by 63% of Michigan’s voters; it fails to provide safe regulated access for patients. Michigan medical marijuana patients need safe regulated access. Please Support House Bill 4271 (The Medical Marihuana Provisioning Center Regulation Act).

Legalizing Medical Marijuana

We are all constantly effected by lack of access to basic health care due to costs imposed by the current insurance based financing method. Preventable deaths, preventable hospitalizations and complications, preventable medical incident related bankruptcies and living in fear are the price we pay for a lack of universal coverage, publicly financed, privately delivered health care system. HB 2922 is the Health Care for All Oregon Plan Act with at least 21 co-sponsors, similar to the HB3510 that stayed in committee in 2011. This time there is much more public support for this monumental and necessary change in how health care is financed, with similar systems proven to have better outcomes than ours in many of the other developed countries in the world. This problem will persist as long as for-profit insurance companies control the prices and payments. HB2922 puts an end to that. Public hearings scheduled for May 13th in Salem. Visit pnhp.org and hcao.org for further information.