Our community of Roxbury is in dire need of wealth-building opportunities, in particular the opportunity to build wealth through home ownership, which was expressed in the RFP for Bartlett. We see these opportunities as a way to stabilize the community. But Nuestra's first phase of the Bartlett Place development offers only rental and is out of balance with the income mix expressed in the RFP. Tell Nuestra you want a stable neighborhood. Homeownership should be part of phase 1!

This Petition is requesting legal action be taken by the Justice Department, President Obama and Vice President Biden to remove Speaker of the House John Boehner from office and Republicans who (1.) are refusing to fund the affordable Care Act and/or (2.) signed the Grover Norquist Tax Pledge.

It is critically important that we act now, while the breathtaking irresponsibility of shutting down our democracy over disagreements on unrelated issues is on full display, so that this will never happen again. We cannot afford to allow our government to hold our economy hostage and gamble with the livelihood of all Americans to advance ideological agendas.

The problem in Washington DC is related to the amount of money in the Elections trough. Were it not for the Money Power of Special Interests, the elected officials would be free to act according their enlightened Conscience. Instead their thought and action are beholden to the Money that will keep them in Special Interest Powers.

In the current federal budget context, in which federal borrowing is capped under the Budget Control Act, and increased taxes on the super-rich like a Wall Street speculation tax are considered off the table, it's an economic fact that unnecessary Pentagon spending will destroy jobs. That's because with borrowing capped, more Pentagon spending will mean more cuts to domestic spending and higher taxes on working families. That means a "Grand Bargain" which includes cuts to Social Security, higher taxes on the 99%, and turning off Pentagon cuts will destroy American jobs. This fact about unnecessary Pentagon spending is documented in a 2011 study by the University of Massachusetts. More Americans don't know this because our leading Keynesian economist public intellectuals haven't publicly championed this fact. Urge Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, and Joe Stiglitz to publicly champion the fact that in the current federal budget environment, in which federal borrowing is capped, and increased taxes on the super-rich are considered off the table, increased Pentagon spending will destroy American jobs. References: "The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: 2011 Update," Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 2011 http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_military_spending_2011.pdf "Wall Street Visits Washington, the Grand Bargain Returns and Other Tales from the Kidnap House," Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO,10/03/2013 http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Wall-Street-Visits-Washington-the-Grand-Bargain-Returns-and-Other-Tales-from-the-Kidnap-House "Ask a Keynesian: With U.S. Borrowing Capped, Won't More Pentagon Spending Destroy Jobs?" Robert Naiman, Huffington Post, 10/07/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/ask-a-keynesian-with-us-b_b_4059484.html

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We have to stop these clowns from harming the rest of us.

I have been a resident of the DC area my entire life and have been attending the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg for the past three years. I believe we can speak for everyone who lives or will live along Interstate 95 that something must be done about the incredible amount of car traffic that has become more and more apparent along the highway in the last decade. However, widening the highway or adding an HOV lane or building the Bi-County Parkway is not a long-term solution. Traffic on I-95 is no longer a morning and evening, weekday phenomenon--it happens at all times of the day and night. And it's only getting worse. The best way to prevent this environmental disaster from worsening is to add more cheap, enjoyable train rides by VRE for commuters of all kinds, not just the 9am to 5pm office workers. The MARC Train in Maryland has been providing counter-rush hour service for years now and will begin providing weekend service starting December 7th--so should Virginia!

Our economy is teetering on the edge of a recession worse than than that of 2008. If Congress can't come to a budget agreement by Oct. 17th the middle class will suffer. Rep. Tipton is beholden to special interests and has forgotten who he works for: the people of Colorado. We need Rep. Tipton to wake up and do his job, which means standing up for hard-working Coloradans who have suffered under wildfires and floods, and passing a clean budget with no strings attached.

Our economy is teetering on the edge of a recession worse than than that of 2008. If Congress can't come to a budget agreement by Oct. 17th the middle class will suffer. Rep. Coffman is beholden to special interests and has forgotten who he works for: the people of Colorado. We need Rep. Coffman to wake up and do his job, which means standing up for hard-working Coloradans who have suffered under wildfires and floods, and passing a clean budget with no strings attached.

John Boehner is soley responsibilty for the government shut down and choas in our country this week. He knows there are enough votes in the house to pass a clean CR, but refuses to put the billon the floor for a vote. This should not be allowed and "we the people" must force responsibile behavior from our elected officials, by insisting that they abandon the Hassert Rule and put the bill passed and sent over by the Senate to a full house vote today.

I am an alternative healthcare practitioner. Individuals seek my care after modern medicine has either failed or damaged them. I would like the opportunity to serve them on an equal basis with allopathic medicine at the outset, rather than as a last resort.