The wealthy pay a declining % of their income to Social Security, while collecting maximum support. Fairness and Social Security's long term budget suggest that the Top Earners pay a Fair Share to the maintenance of the program.

I think, what the country needs now is a WPA program for the 21st century. The WPA program in the 1930's provided jobs for unemployed writers, artist,editiors and research workers. In addition, to public works,almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by the agency in the 1930's which is exactly what we need to fix the infrastructure. WPA- 21 would provide jobs for millions of Americans. It also should cover the country's transition to green technology (energy).

The U. S. concress should put ALL United States seaports under United States of America federal government control. All monies for the use of these should go to the people of the Unioted States of America

Congress and President are making noises about cutting Social Security in the bogus name of changing the meaning of inflation. It would mean cat food for meany seniors. Don't let them do it!

Ask the Raleigh City Council to take this progressive step to expand urban agriculture in the new Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). The Planning Department has made important progress on urban agriculture, but to create lasting change we need the above enabling legislation within the UDO. Urban agriculture builds soil, builds innovation, and builds our economy. Urban agriculture feeds people, improves public health, and strengthens our communities. Let the City Council know that you support farms and gardens throughout Raleigh, for Raleigh! This petition sponsored by the Raleigh Urban Ag Work Group.

Republicans made a pledge to Grover Norquist to never raise taxes and are holding the country hostage. They want to raise the age for medicare to 67! As baby boomers, let's pledge to never vote republican again if they make any changes to medicare or social security.

S.2010, the Social Security Fairness Act, will repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision (GPO/WEP). The GPO/WEP unfairly reduces the retirement benefits earned by public employees such as police officers, teachers, and firefighters. Public employees, like myself, are now suffering from lower benefits because of the unfair GPO/WEP provision.

People on Staten Island displaced due to Superstorm Sandy have lost their homes and many still await FEMA trailers. Meanwhile, a lot of potential housing away from the flood zone goes unused due to underwater mortgages, legal issues, etc. My petition is to ask the government to take over such properties by means of eminent domain, rehabilitate them as necessary, and use them to house people who need new homes due to the storm. The issue is now so massive it goes beyond economics and affects the social order.

as a 65 yr old female nurse who has spent my life taking care of you , your's, the people you could have or should have helped take care of , i would like you to explain ( America), why so many females , including myself now live in poverty . I would like you to explain why things are still improving mostly for white rich men and tell me just who you expect to take care of you if all of these female nurses, teachers, housekeepers, cooks, etc. dont .

This petition calls on all organizations involved in the Salem-Keizer Area Transportation Study (SKATS, the metropolitan planning organization for the Mid-Willamette Valley) to discontinue the planning process (already $5.5 million over-budget and 4 years behind schedule) that is trying to come up with a rationale for building an unnecessary 3rd Bridge over the Willamette, a dinosaur of a project that reflects 1950s thinking and would be the most expensive public project in Salem history and would destroy Wallace Marine Park. Don't let "Bridgasaurus Boondogglus" stomp all over Salem for the next 30 years! There's a listserv you can join to stay informed about the effort to restore sanity and stop the absurd $800+ million 3rd Bridge project. To join this listserv and others opposing this Bridgasaurus Boondogglus, just send me a note at gearjm (at symbol) gmail.com  and request an invite to join the No3rdBridge list, so that you can participate in the campaign and be informed about the issue. (You will have to create a google account if you don't already have one -- click "Sign in" to be taken to the account creation page.) Remember, you can control for yourself how much mail you get from this list-- you can set it to send you every message as they are posted, or you can get one daily digest (containing all of that day's messages), or you can even set to "no mail" which would let you view the messages at the website but not fill your inbox. Another thing you can do is use filters/rules to automatically move the mail you get from this list to a folder in your computer's email program. (Ask a young person how if you don't know how to tickle your mail program to do that for you.)

The recent election was a clear mandate of the people: We voted to end tax cuts for the top 2% and to demand that there will be no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security,.vital programs for the middle class and working people, children, and seniors, We are backing our Senators Feinstein and Boxer and President Obama to not give one inch on these vital programs and telling our Representative John Campbell to support the mandate of his constituents, the 98% that he represents over the interests of the wealthy 2%.

My husband, Joe, is totally disabled by Multiple Sclerosis, but would lose his SSI if I went to work. Though I would like to work, without his SSI, at age 59, I could not make enough to support us. The disabled who marry should be entitled to thier SSI checks regardless of whether a spouse works or not.