My workplace IRA is run by Transamerica Asset Management. Ten members of the Board of Trustees are being elected for life as of February 26, 2012, One candidate, John W, Waechter, lists as a qualification being on the Board of the West Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America, 2008 to the present. All we are told of his activities on that Board is that he "did not act in any disruptive way on motions before the Board: "

Please sign this petition: We the informed people of the United States are fed up with mostly the Republican legislators that are playing games with our tax money and taking time away from meaningful legislation that serves all the people. It is time to fine them and hold them accountable.

As a current New York resident and former resident of Long Beach and Staten Island -- areas hard hit by Hurricane Sandy -- I believe that Republican members of the House of Representatives need to apologize today for putting their ideology and re-election ambitions ahead of their concern for the Americans who have recently suffered and continue to suffer from the recent storm. The refusal to vote on House Speaker Boehner's Plan B and to vote for $60 Billion for states affected by Hurricane Sandy is clear evidence where their priorities lay.

We need ex-congressman Frank in the U.S. Senate to support progressive causes and fiscal discipline.

Sign my petition to ask Governor Deval Patrick to appoint former Rep. Barney Frank to the Interim Senate seat when John Kerry is confirmed to be Secretary of State.

I currently reside in a HDFC building where shareholders are obligated to self managing , My issue is that so many buildings have been affected by this type of managing when no one oversees what the board is doing ,In my building we have a Treasurer who has withdrawn over 25k in cash and no one knows what to do about it , Mayor Bloomberg is behind these programs but he never implemented a progarm or dept that would oversee that the buildings are be governed by the bylaws,We need a dept that oversees HDFC buildings

Insurance information should be integrated into the police computers the same as drivers licenses and registration information. Police computers should be able to validate insurance information on the scene. Many people have accidents and when the police arrive they produce insurance cards that are invalid and victims end up having to pay for the repair and medical bills and increased insurance rates because that uninsured driver knew that by the time the state of New Jersey realized that his card was invalid it would be to late. These people should be identified and held responsible on the spot for their blatant disregard for the law.

This nation has unleashed a military campaign against the world like none before and we must demonstrate the combined will to stop it. American led covert operations and counter insurgency are at the core of all revolutions and violence in this world, and this latest crusade we are all allowing to happen comes in the name of democracy.

Press reports say President Obama will soon nominate a new Treasury Secretary . Press speculation has centered on candidates likely to support the Wall Street agenda of cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits and other domestic spending rather than government policies to create jobs. We want President Obama to nominate Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who opposes austerity and wants the government to focus on creating jobs.

It is a fact that the US drug policy, The war on drugs IS destroying the Middle-Class Communities using FREE PRISON LABOR and the subsequent mass incarceration of Americans. These incarcerations are comparable to per-Civil War slavery of Americans. The hierarchies of racial and poor injustice have shifted but not wholly improved. "This whole thing of...this 'War on Drugs,' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the middle class and the male population. LET US FIX THE INJUSTICE!

FOUL-PROOF DETERRENT for GUNS, and WEAPONS in South Carolina is INSTALLATION OF METAL DETECTOR MACHINES AT THE ENTRY DOORS OF ALL SCHOOLS...

Help to limit the use of tethering and chaining dogs in Washington State. Chaining is inhumane and unsafe for dogs. Dogs are, by nature, social beings who thrive on interaction with people and other animals. A dog kept chained in one spot for months or years suffers immense psychological damage. A continuously chained dog usually becomes neurotic, anxious, and aggressive.