The TPP is a trade pact that has been in the process of development by a handful of countries that seek to protect corporate rights at the expense of people and the planet. This pact would give corporations multitudes more power than The Citizens United legislation in the U.S. has provided.

The country faces high unemployment, war, crime, gun violence and other high priority things. It is time to stop the Republicans from spreading stupid conspiracies, they are a waste of time and resources.

They're screwing thew educational system as well as the middle and lower class in this state.

Verizonwireleas used to offer unlimited data plans that were resonably priced. Howevere now its restricted to user based price plans that are very expensive. I am asking verizonwireless to bring back their unlimited data plans.

Last week, the Marketplace Fairness Act passed the Senate with a resounding majority. Now the House needs to pass it. According to the Seattle Times, $422,5 million dollars in revenue annually is at stake for WA, and we need the only two representatives of Washington State who have not yet taken a position in support of this bill to argue for it in the US House GOP caucus.

The double taxation on retirees must stop! We had paid our dues! It is unconscionable that our retirement moneys are taxed, too!

Don't stop looking for missing persons/ cold cases. Although there is that probability, they haven't survived; as Cleveland discovered, last week, there is a very real possibility these people are alive, somewhere {and possibly being subjected to unspeakable treatment/ abuse}... Therefore, we must not give up on these innocent victims, of abduction!!!

, At GDB, it has always been about relationships, matching just the right guide dog with the right person for safe, independent travel, building relationships with graduates in the field while providing the most excellent and comprehensive follow-up services, creating opportunities for relationships between handlers and their guides, puppy raisers, and fostering an environment in which appreciation is shown for the heartfelt generous contributions of everyone who donates their time, talent, and treasure, to ensure the continuation of the quality and excellence of GDB services. Under current leadership, numerous highly respected employees have been unjustly laid off. Through their considerable expertise and experience, these individuals have provided outstanding graduate services and deserve the credit for helping to make GDB the great organization it is today. The number of client service areas has been reduced from ten to six, and the number of field area staff from twelve to six,vastly increasing the number of graduates assigned to each region and almost doubling the case load for these six field support representatives. Although each graduate will technically now be assigned a field manager, opportunities for relationship building will be necessarily far fewer, with assurances that a call center can adequately handle the highly individualized needs of over 2000 working teams. The leadership team has drawn up a reorganization plan, which in reality will lessen the amount of time field reps can spend with individuals in their regions and has already resulted in multiple layoffs and early retirement of highly respected individuals who have played major roles in creating and setting high industry standards. In the past, positive staff/alumni relations have made Guide Dogs for the Blind a safe place where clients have been able to trust that their best interest and individual needs would be respected and receive priority. Now, current management’s recent ill-considered decisions represent an unwelcome return to paternalistic decision-making processes we had all hoped were behind us, and it is high time for alumni points of view to be more powerfully represented, heard and acted on. GDB's current leadership has demonstrated its considerable lack of awareness regarding the organization's unique personalized culture by failing to address serious alumni concerns being expressed, and by continuing to assert that all is well. By enacting sweeping unpopular changes prior to even analyzing the results of a recent graduate survey, current leadership clearly indicates its lack of understanding of and concern for alumni points of view. GDB's mission is not being fulfilled when current senior management suddenly lays off excellent employees who represent for many, the voices and faces of GDB, reduces the number of graduate support service areas from ten to six and the number of graduate support field managers from twelve to six, and entrusts a centralized customer call center to shoulder so much of the burden for providing efficient and highly personalized graduate support for so many with diverse needs.

College and University graduates in the United States today are drowning in insurmountable levels of student loan debt. This year, the Class of 2013 will graduate only to face some of the highest levels of student loan debt our country has ever seen. The average college graduate owes $23,300 after graduation - while unemployment rates continue to soar and college graduates are often unable to find work. A small tax on Wall Street transactions could eliminate the barrier of student loan debt for college graduates. A tax of 0.5% on stock trades and an even smaller tax on other financial instruments could yield up to $350 billion in new revenue per year. This money could be used to support federal student aid and grant programs. As young people conscious of the many social injustices our generation faces in the future, we recognize that revenue from this tax could also be used for job creation, healthcare development, education, environmental protection, and global health. We the undersigned - college students, recent graduates, and young professionals - call on our representatives in Congress to support Representative Keith Ellison's bill, HR 1579. This bill would enact a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street and reduce the student loan debt that is crippling our chances of success.

The United States is being run by corporations and lobbyists for corporations . This practice should be abolished.

I petition our congress to receive the same insurance, the same retirement plan, and a pay decrease of at least 20%.

Since the massacre at Sandy Hook, many corporations have distanced themselves from the extremist, right-wing gun culture promoted by the NRA. But the daily deals web site LivingSocial has refused to take action in the wake of Newtown. LivingSocial continues to offer deals that encourage buyers to engage in a dangerous mix of alcohol and guns. In some cases, customers are even sold packages combining the shooting of assault weapons like the ones used in the Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colorado massacres, and a night of drinking beer or bourbon. Tell LivingSocial: End your gun and gun range deals that glorify drinking and shooting assault weapons. Some of LivingSocial’s deals, which are created by gun range proprietors, and then edited and solicited by paid LivingSocial staff, would make even the NRA blush -- and with good reason: 86% of gun murders are committed by people who were drinking before they opened fire. Most of the deals are careful to say that the shooting comes first, and then the drinking. But many of the deals include transportation on a party bus, and some have a meet-up point at restaurants that offer beer and burgers, giving buyers the chance to drink before the event begins. LivingSocial’s flip hucksterism buys into the gun manufacturers’ marketing strategy that seeks to bring new customers to shooting ranges in the hopes of pushing them toward gun ownership. But the evidence is clear that when more people own guns, more violence and death occurs. Competitors to LivingSocial, like Groupon, have already dropped their gun deals and have agreed not to offer them on their site in the future. Now LivingSocial must do the same. Tell LivingSocial: Enough is enough with your dangerous alcohol and shooting package deals. Remove gun deals from your site and promise not to offer them again. SOURCES: 1. [PDF] Page 3, "Deals to Die For." CREDO Action and the Gun Truth Project, May 12, 2013. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.credoaction.com/images/dyingsocial-05-12.pdf 2. "Shootin' + Drinkin': AK47, AR15, Pistols, Food + Beer." LivingSocial. https://www.livingsocial.com/adventures/352064-shootin-drinkin 3. Shareen Pathak, "Salespeople Fuel Growth at Groupon, Living Social" Fins, April 5, 2011. http://sales-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SB130090099092197185/Salespeople-Fuel-Growth-at-Groupon-Living-Social 4. Andy Sullivan, "NRA Membership: For U.S. Gun Clubs, Joining Has Its Privileges." HuffingtonPost/Reuters, February 3, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/nra-membership_n_2610006.html 5. “Homicide.” Harvard Injury Control Research Center. http://act.credoaction.com/sign/livingsocial_guns/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/%E2%80%9D