We have no problem funding foreign countries while we keep stealing from our own social programs. We need to fund SSI to insure our elderly have a reasonable means to live.

We must remove the physical barriers to commerce enabling our Industries and our Financial sector to grow through activity.

that skunks are just one of the animals that people know less about. most people don't know ANYTHING about animals AT ALL any way. there fore we alienate them and kill them. in this case skunks are alienated from most states in america like Illinois, but there are people who want DOMESTIC skunks for pets and they are playful, curious, loving animals but in Illinois they are just animals that could harm people and give people rabies which is NOT the case with domestic skunks. please help me legalize skunks in Illinois thank you

Force the banks to actually modify the mortgages of the hundreds of thousands of American homeowners that actually qualify for them. Right now the banks string along desperate home owners for up to two years only to reject the modifications. Regulate and enforce laws that require American and Foreign banks to modify mortgages and regulate them. Stop this banking scam. Make the American people know that the banks actually make more money on foreclosures. Instead of short sales; reduce principal and interest to actually make the home affordable. Make it a law! Regulate it and enforce it. Give consumers an actual government agency to report the malfeasance of the banking institutions regarding mortgage modifications and fraudulent foreclosures! HOPE is a complete and total scam!

Many Civil Air Patrol, United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps, and Young Marine Units have lost facilities and resources when US military bases have closed. Many of these youth have been unable to find comparable facilities for their drills. We're asking the State legislators and governor to put in place guidelines under which Air National Guard and Army National Guard facilities would be encouraged to provide facilities for these youth.

"Crazy Lady among ESPN's Super Fans" Terri Jackson (Utah) There aren't many people who would find the nickname "Crazy Lady" to be flattering. Terri Jackson is one of them who does. Having graduated more than three decades ago from Utah, she still has the energy of a college student, which she demonstrates with her regular pre-fourth-quarter dance routine that involves a lot of shoulder shakes and flying fists. The entire stadium turns to her before the final 15 minutes, with the students chanting, "Cra-zy La-dy." She's been doing it since 2000. Jackson said she and her husband might hit the road for each game in the 2011 season to check out all the new venues in the Utes' next conference. Pac-10 fans, you've been warned.

Saving the small American family-owned business from extinction.

In California every voter receives detailed information on every candidate and every voter initiative being decided at the election. Most states do not have this so most voters go to the polls without proper information by which to make important election decisions. A small fund to gather and then make this information available to voters should be established. Paid endorsements of candidates etc. (clearly marked as such) could offset costs. California's system could be used as a good model. This should be universal to every US voter.

In the state of Vermont, a competent mother or father can too easily be stripped of rights to parent their children. The state will "pick one parent" for legal rights and responsibilities, yet will often award the children to both parents for physical custody--because both parents are, in fact, competent. Where both parents are competent, the courts must be directed to award legal custody to both parents. The current policy encourages dissent by offering divorcing parents too many reasons not to work together. A parent with no commitment to working together has only to prove him- or herself "better" to strip the other parent of legal rights --and "better" is defined differently each time a judge sits the bench because the statute is too complex. Automatically awarding legal custody to both competent parents will clear the courts of specious custody cases and create an atmosphere in which the only choice parents have is to work together to make decisions. Only parents who are clearly incompetent should be stripped of legal rights to guide their children. Not only is parenting a basic human right, but so is having both competent parents actively involved when one is young.

my petition is too stop the DC BACKPAGE escourt advirtisements because thats were my daughter and hundreds more women go to sell there body my daughters name is paris please lets shut them down all escourts a worried mother.

In resent days we have heard that the University of Utah is thinking about changing our name and taking the "Utes" out of our name. We need to show our support and petition that the name stays the same!

Unfair Insurance Practices (rating clients based on credit scores). Because consumers have no real voice. Left at the mercy of rabid insurance opportunists - we are victimized for declining net worth at a time when we can least afford it. It impacts you everyday - in the bottom line costs for goods, services...