The Grayson-Takano letter asks Congressmen to pledge to vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits. Presidents and past Congresses have borrowed from the Social Security Fund with promises of returning the money to it. To date, instead of living up to their promises, they are now trying to cut benefits that seniors paid into with confidence. The pillaging of this fund is what has caused it to be running out of money, not increased costs and more seniors living longer. Now benefits are to be cut because the fund was misused to balance our country's budgets instead of its intended use.

Over a dozen members of Congress just signed a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Workers pay for their Social Security and Medicare with deductions taken from their salaries. These are not "entitlements". As a nation, we can not afford to ignore those who need Medicaid. Please add your name to this letter.

Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Within two days, the letter had more than a dozen co-signers, but to date, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has not signed on. We want to know definitively that Rep. Sinema will stand up against Republican efforts to cut the social safety net.

Elections have consequences and one result of President Obama's decisive victory is the rejection by American voters of any move to penalize the Middle Class for mistakes by the 1% by offering up cuts to the social safety net - *our* return on *our* investment - to offset the problems caused by unneeded tax-cuts and unfunded wars. Social Security and Medicare are off the table.

Democrats have built the most popular government programs in American history – including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security -- by working with Republicans whenever possible and by defeating Republican opposition whenever necessary. The torch has been passed to today’s elected officials, and we must carry it forward boldly. Voters across the political spectrum oppose cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits, and we must do whatever it takes to protect these vital benefits from cuts.

13.5 billion of Road Home money allocated to Louisiana for hurricane Katrina that was unfairly distributed to homeowners.

To understand why this petition is needed go to my blog at: http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS WARNED AGAINST FAMILY LAW CORRUPTION More state revenue is raised from alimony collecting, motivating longer duration alimony than justified An American Bar Association (ABA) web site (abajournal.com) is inviting comments on a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) letter sent to “Dear Colleague” on March 14, 2016 which addresses current state and local court practices that run afoul of federal law. The letter sets forth the requirements of several principles that need to be followed to correct the situation. Press coverage of this important development however reported only on Principles 1 thru 4 relating to harmful effect of fees and fines associated with the illegal enforcement of court ordered support payments upon the indigent and minorities. What has been ignored is the DOJ’s less emotional concerns, Principle 7, which addresses opportunities for wrongdoing (corruption) when contractors are hired to act as proxies. An example can be the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) employing a private contractor as its State Disbursement Unit (SDU) to implement the federal Welfare Reform Act by having it take over management of court ordered support collecting that creates data for calculating how large its reward from the federal government will be for collecting the support. Principle 7 of the DOJ letter (https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/832461/download) warns that “Courts must safeguard against unconstitutional practices by court staff and private contractors.” That means the payment management practices they carry out is suspect, as explained by DOJ’s analogous examples (last two paragraphs, page 8 of the letter) since DOR is the Act’s designee and has a pecuniary interest (revenue generation) in the outcome of its decision on which court ordered payments its contractor collects (the more child and spousal support contractors collect, the greater the incentive rewards DOR can receive.) One example of the illegal activity associated with misuse of the federal Welfare Reform Act is Florida having its contractor ignore the federal regulation establishing nationwide that spousal support is alimony for custodial parents so it consequently receives a larger, undeserved, percentage portion of the Act’s shared incentive fund pool by also accounting for lifetime alimony collecting that is not spousal support. Therefore nationwide implementation of the Act is unconstitutional because bureaucrats are allowing some states to not comply with the law while denying the compliant states protection by choosing not to impose available penalties and stop the resulting fraud which is harming them by reducing their percentage share of the incentive payment pool. I documented Florida’s harmful government program fraud in my blog dated March 2, 2016 http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com which was emailed to federal law enforcement with my request for an independent investigation of that situation, but there has not been any acknowledgement of my request. Therefore I hope anyone not in agreement with the apparent thinking that an investigation is not warranted will let the ABA know by going to their web site at http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/justice_department_warns_local_courts_about_illegal_enforcement_of_fees_and and post a comment. (Published April 2, 2016 on my Facebook page under title “Corruptive Effects of Lifetime Alimony”)

SUPPORT ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR TANF - CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE. WORKING WILL BE WORTHWHILE AND PEOPLE WILL MOVE OFF OF WELFARE AND LOSE RESENTMENT , GAIN SELF RESPECT. CHILDREN WILL BE SAFER.

SUPPORT ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR TANF - CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE. WORKING WILL BE WORTHWHILE AND PEOPLE WILL MOVE OFF OF WELFARE AND LOSE RESENTMENT , GAIN SELF RESPECT. CHILDREN WILL BE SAFER.

Public Employee Retirees have not received a COLA in several years to offset the cost's of healthcare premiums, co-pay's, deductibles and out-of-pocket-expenses, which were imposed by the Public Employees Retirement Board.

Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Within 2 days, the letter had more than a dozen cosigners, but to date, Rep. William Clay has not signed on. Sigh to urge Rep. Clay to sign the letter.

Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Within two days, the letter had more than a dozen co-signers, but to date, Rep. Lois Capps has not signed on. When struggling families encounter serious illness, they need to be supported in order to keep our entire country strong.