[UPDATE: New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has responded to this petition: "The Times Is Working on Ways to Make Numbers-Based Stories Clearer for Readers" http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/the-times-is-working-on-ways-to-make-numbers-based-stories-clearer-for-readers] Economist Dean Baker writes: "It is the media’s job to inform the public about the budget. They are clearly failing badly. A major reason is very simple. When they write about the budget they almost never put the numbers in context. As a result, readers might hear that we’re spending $15 billion on foreign aid or $400 million on the CPB [Corporation for Public Broadcasting] and think that this is a lot of money...But it is not a lot of money for the federal government. This point would be immediately apparent in every news report on the budget if the standard practice were to report budget items as a share of the budget instead of in dollar terms. Telling readers that spending on CPB takes up 0.012 percent of the budget immediately tells them how important this spending is to the government. Telling readers that we’re spending $400 million on CPB tells the overwhelming majority of readers almost nothing... Fortunately the New York Times has a public editor, Margaret Sullivan, who takes journalistic standards seriously. There is good reason to believe that if enough people were to raise this issue with her that she would look into the issue and press the matter with the paper’s editors. If the New York Times were to change its practice for budget reporting most of the rest of the media would almost certainly follow. The NYT is recognized as the preeminent newspaper in the country. Their standards are taken seriously by everyone." -"The Tea Party and the New York Times Shut Down the Government," Dean Baker, Truthout, 14 October 2013 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19402-the-tea-party-and-the-new-york-times-shut-down-the-government

Vermont Tech has a large tobacco-using population, whether that be smoking, chewing/dipping, or other means. This proposal restricts our personal freedoms and cultural values, as well as those of our peers. We are also concerned that if this proposal were passed, future enrollment at Vermont Tech would decline.

I've been hitchhiking the U.S.A. over 11 years to use less gas & spread conservation efforts & trust. I believe it is better for people to have the choice to work together & to conserve. I am tired of being told "If I see you out here on the side of the road again you're going to jail." Righteousness MUST prevail!

The reason I'm starting this Petition is to have my name cleared from a case file on me through DCYF agency. In Rhode Island That existed 19 years ago. I was never charged with any crime on this matter. This file is preventing me from having my grand daughter in my custody.

The disfunction in Congress is no longer tolerable!!!! It's time to make a serious change in the status quo!!!!! Let's show our employees in Congress that we are their boss by saying in one loud and clear voice, "You're Fired with Cause!!"

To save the United States.

Social Security has been the single-greatest anti-poverty program in our nation's history. However, the program is in danger of disappearing due to insolvency. So many of our seniors are struggling just to survive. After decades of hard work, they live on budgets that should make us, a country with so much, ashamed. Eliminating the cap on Social Security tax is a common-sense and relatively painless way to benefit us all. -- www.facebook.com/kickingassforthemiddleclass

We are starting an anti-texting and driving campaign at our school.

The purpose of this petition is to communicate to the United States House of Representatives that we, the undersigned, are American citizens who want to impeach and remove from office Representives John Boehner, Eric Cantor and other Tea Party Republicans, and Senator Ted Cruz, for abuse of power. Abuse of power is cited in the U.S. Constitution as an impeachable offense. These individuals forced the shutdown of the Federal Government contrary to the will of the majority of the members of the House, the U.S. Senate, and the American people. This shutdown is harming the American people. Background: In order to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, a law which was passed in 2010 and subsequently upheld by the United States Supreme Court, the above-named individuals recklessly conspired to force the shutdown of the Federal Government. This shutdown is causing financial, physical and emotional distress and ruin to many thousands of American citizens, including but not limited to: military veterans, hundreds of thousands of Federal employees and contractors who have been furloughed and/or are working without pay, providers of essential services, families and children, the elderly, and countless others. The government shutdown has brought uncertainty to the nation's and the world's financial markets, and may result in creating another recession in the United States of America and the entire world. Additionally, Representatives Boehner, Cantor, and some others in the United States House of Representatives rigged the rules so that only they or their designees can bring the government shutdown matter to a vote in the House of Representatives. These individuals have refused to bring the matter to a vote. Their abuse of power, their reckless and irresponsible actions are causing great harm to the American people and the world; therefore, we petition that Boehner, Cantor, Cruz and others be impeached and removed from office.

I can't remember the last time I went to or enjoyed the movie theatre in Madison. The theatre is mostly flawed in appearence; sticky floors, ripped screens, no doors on the bathrooms, filthy seats ect. There are other ways that the theatre is flawed such as the fact that the heater is too loud and you can't always enjoy the movie. Not only do I believe that the update would create a cleaner, more family friendly theatre. I feel as if it would also bring in more business and profit.

In response to petition circulating to grant clemency to a convicted murderer. Someone who does not deserve the freedom she so easily took from Steven.

I miss my parents & can't visit my homestate of Iowa because I chose years ago to become the change I wished to see int he world & SPEAK UP FOR ANIMAL FREEDOM & I don't want to come to Iowa & have be in fear of being called a “terrorist” by some bullies who put a toxic law into place that victimizes whistleblowers & treats American citizens like they treat animals.