The government pays out billions of dollars in social security and medicare benefits for retired millionaires. Millionaires do not need these benefits. Further, unlike many other issues where people are seriously divided, there are many Congressman and Senators on both sides of the aisle who agree on this point. Call or email your congressman today and let them know to stop paying the millionaires.

The most entitled of all Americans are the politicians from the Federal level, on down to lowest city official. I petittion that their salaries be cut by 5% across the board, all raises in salary & expenses awarded during our wwars in Iraq & Afghanistan be rolled back. All pensions should be eliminated & replaced by 403b or IRA type accounts, with no match until the deficits are gone. Their healthcare should be eliminated and replaced with the same healthcare that the rest of Nation uses.

Licensed Day Care owners should be forced to make a call to the caregiver of a child within an hour of the no show. A law. On a cell phone or other device so the call can be tracked by time. Eliminate the grief and devastation of the parent who forget the child was in the back seat.

Animal abuse is a major global issue–over 300 animals are being abused daily.

I've put this idea forward before, but here it is again: Legalize drugs, but only those grown, processed and distributed within our own borders. A domestic-only policy would cut off violent foreign drug lords, and bankrupt terrorists who finance their crimes with drug peddling. It would allow our law enforcement criminal justice systems to concentrate on real crimes, and would subject drugs to regulation and taxation. It would also create thousands upon thousands of jobs.

We believe that Georgetown’s business advantage and quality of life is best ensured by protecting the city’s unique pedestrian-friendly historic district. We are opposed to the special use permit application by Hat Creek Burger Company for an on-site drive-through located at 405 S. Austin Avenue. According to their application, Hat Creek Burgers plan for up to 1,000 customers per day (up to 250 cars per hour during peak times). This type of car-centric, high turnover restaurant franchise conflicts with the historic district’s unique pedestrian-friendly space nurtured so carefully over the years. We do not want to set a precedent for other franchise and car-focused businesses in the historic district. Keep Georgetown special!

Slaughter houses have been closed for several years now, but a bill was recently signed allowing the re-opening of Horse Slaughter Houses for creating available horsemeat for France, Belgium and Japan. We in the U.S. do not eat horsemeat. This a repugnant, disgusting, cruel, and unecessary. Think what the noble horse has done for mankind, pulling wagons, plows, taxies, and dying on the battlefields of wars. The federal government must creat LOW COST Horse clinics where the very ill, diseased, very old etc. can be put down humanely for low costs. Other things we can do is set aside alotments on land for more dirt roads for riding, to bring back the usefulness of a horse but with excellent treatment and care. Horses are fragile, intelligent, devoted big creatures to those who love them. We must give them the decent good lives they deserve. Education, education, education is needed to promote good useful lives for horses.

Injustice

To: Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee We, the undersigned, respectfully request the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee to issue a U.S. stamp honoring The Borinqueneers of the 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit in U.S. Army history. The Borinqueneers is the nickname of the 65th Infantry Regiment that served meritoriously in World War I, World War II and the Korean War. But it was in the Korean War, where they excelled in combat participating in nine major campaigns and earning the praise of General Douglas MacArthur. by Noemi Figueroa Soulet on April 7, 2012 at 8:40pm PDT

Lets pick a date to boycott walmart for being the number one seller of guns and ammo in the US. They are the sponors of ALEC which wrote the legislation for the stand your ground rule in Florida which led to the Trayvon Martin death. This will show corporate America that the people are feed up with corporate greed which in this case was trying to sell more guns.

"When You Go Shopping Give a Thought to Tibet." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0409-tibet-20120409,0,1872848.story Jamphel Yeshi , Tsering Kyi and at least 22 others have burned themselves to death for Tibet in the last year -- can we give up goods made in China?

 http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/tibet-self-immolation-wave_n_1396443.html

Water is necessary to all living things. Recently, bottling companies such as Coke, Pepsi and Nestle have attempted to manipulate water sources needed for municipal drinking, irrigation and natural habitat preservation to their own ends:profit. Not only are the plastic bottles showing up on the bottom of the Pacific ocean and in sea creatures' digestive systems, but the bottlers are also sidestepping FDA regulations by bottling and distributing within state boundries, thus eliminating the oversight of the FDA, which only regulates federal, i.e. interstate products. People have been fooled into thinking that bottled water is superior in quality to that of their local municipality, whose water sources are tested daily by the EPA. Often that same "inferior" water is bottled and then sold back to consumers at a huge mark up. Bottlers have fought against disclosing their sources, and continue to profit off consumer fear and misinformation.