The Petition is about establishing a Governor's Commission on Caribbean Affairs to focus on the specific needs of Caribbean Americans in the State of Georgia. The focus will be on community development issues and serve as advisors on all issues relating to the Caribbean community.

The state recency passed senate bill 1310. just type in pasb1310. This bill now is law and most of us workers under this new formula will never be able to collect that which we payed into. unemployemnt if we are laid off. This bill passed in a sudden middle of the night fashion is wrong, ethnically, legally. and economically wrong and will hurt our economy for us as individuals and will hurt all those who work. please sing this petetion its your future that you are being asked to save. .

It looks like Obama's really dropped the ball this time. The sequester agreement that would've gone into effect on Jan.1st protected SS, Medicaid and Medicare from cuts. In the 11th hour, he signed a temporary fix with another sequester agreement going into effect on Mar.1st that does not(!?!) It's time to raise holy hell with him, Congress and the Senate. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/sequester-entitlement-cuts_n_2677439.html

No one questions the benefits of a happy, healthy marriage. However, the government should not be in the business of promoting something that should remain a personal choice of the individuals involved. Not only that, the government should not be in the position of choosing which man a mother will marry, which is exactly what these bills, initiatives, and resolutions propose to do. These women are encouraged to marry the fathers of their children over and above any other men who may be more appropriate and suitable for them. That fatherhood programs have dealt insufficiently with parenting, poverty, employment, and economic issues. Proper attention is not given to the fathers' personal histories, including addictions, history of incarceration for serious crimes, character defects, domestic violence and child abuse. These programs discriminate against mothers, especially poor mothers. They denigrate family forms outside that of the traditional, two-parent married household. In particular, single and divorced mother homes are debased by the dissemination of specious "fatherlessness" statistics

Although California is considered ahead of many of the other states regarding Alimony, we are still living in the dark ages when it comes to opportunity for divorced couples where there are no children, no major assets and where one of the spouses did not work during the marriage. We need to end the court's unlimited jurisdiction over alimony disguised as "spousal support". Regardless of the length of marriage, limits should be set on spousal support. I propose a 5 year maximum spousal support for long term marriages over 20 years to allow the non-working spouse to become self-supporting or to remarry. The standard should be 3 years, and under extreme circumstances 5.

The MARC train is the only public transportation available to people to go to baltimore and the counties in between washington and baltimore on the weekends. It is very fast and convenient, should be made available to people on weekends as well as during the weekend. What during the week is a 20 minute trip for me to odenton takes about 2 hours on the weekend and someone has to pick me up at a very far bus stop in pointer ridge which is the only bus on weekends in anne arundel. Besides the PENN line the other Marc lines are just as important and should also be run on weekends.

To propose to the State of Texas legislature on what "critical" issues of state that this surplus should be spent on. Exclusively, designated, nothing else but these needs. From seeing how our education system is basically suffering and last in the nation, I do not want my grandchildren to have to suffer from a State that only proposes cuts to education. To use monies for infrastructure repair across the state which will benefit all and will employ thousands of Texans. To use monies for our healthcare system, to help treat all Texans, including children, women and men. Lastly to use the rest of the remaining balance to refund each taxpayer "equally" of Texas which will be used to support businesses, bring more taxes into the coffers to use on further needs of the State and help families, taxpayers struggling, so they can pay off some bills so that they will have more money to spend in the State of Texas. I and all Texans will benefit from all of these proposals.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in Illinois and want to keep it the way it is.

We must STOP the dismantling of the United States Post Office. It is required by the U.S Constitution and is highly valued by young and old alike.

Since Congressional member wish to put Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid on the 'chopping block', they must first surrender the very generous benefits given to them by their constituents, the American people. The Congressional benefits are not 'entitlements' as the Congress people do not contribute to them - rather the public does. If they start there, then we can think about the rest.

I, and many of those who live in Brunswick County, NC have been and will be deeply impacted by the measures you are ramming through Legislature to reduce our unemployment benefits and pay. I do not recall this measure as part of your election campaign and I am appalled that you are allowing a small portion of the State to decide the fate of those of us who want to work but have been unable to find a job offering livable wages. Our cost of living has far out reached the current minimum wages, and please don't tell me it is the Employers who pay the unemployment insurance fee's we too are paying them. I feel that you and those who are Lobbying for the new "unemployment" overhaul are out of touch with the reality of those of us who attempting to survive. I am a taxpayer, I bought a home, I have when was I able to, contributed to the local and State economy. It is actually our tax payer dollars that are paying your salaries and those who work for the City, County and State government. How dare you cast aside the people who are financially supporting you!

The Homeless People and a Bus Pass for six Weeks to Look for Work !