Photo enforcement cameras are unconstitutional and representative of big business making money under the guise of government protection. Most recent studies have concluded that traffic photo enforcement creates more accidents, than it solves.

Funny, that if it affects congress that they do something about it. Meanwhile, the people whose lives have been most affected by the current financial situation, bear the greater burden.

American workers pay into Social Security and Medicare every pay period during their working years with the expectations that U.S. Government will make good on its promise to provide guaranteed, monthly benefit checks during their retirement years. Now retirees receive devaluated dollars with no buying power because the high cost of living and the INFLATION the U.S. government support.

American workers pay into Social Security and Medicare every pay period during their working years with the expectations that U.S. Government will make good on its promise to provide guaranteed, monthly benefit checks during their retirement years. Now retirees receive devaluated dollars with no buying power because the high cost of living and the INFLATION the U.S. government support.

On October 14, 2010, I got the call that my second oldest sister was dead. En route to the hospital, while stuck in traffic at a malfunctioning traffic light, I was photographed & subsequently received a camera ticket for 'running a red light'. How impersonal. Those cameras proliferate in lower economic neighborhoods. Then the poor who can barely pay Chicago's exorbitant rent, food prices & taxes let alone high priced tickets, get booted! I've seen 5 booted cars on the same block along with several foreclosed homes. It's ridiculous and needs to stop.

Innocent people have been held prisoner at the Guantanamo facility for over a decade even though world leaders and U.S. administration already knows they are innocent. We need to correct this immediately. Prisoners are presently exercising their right to refuse food and are being brutally force-fed with large tubes and this needs to stop.

Stop subsidizing establishements who do not pay real salaries to their waitresses and waiters but depend on cutormers tipping them. Why should we subsidize restaurants when it is their responsibility to pay a fair day wage to their employees including benefits? The clients responsibility is to pay for the meal and not the service. We don't tip nurses, bus drivers, drycleaners, grocery clerks because they receive salaries from their employers.

It has ruined the music industry by stiffling region artists and pushing medocrity upon the listener.

Elected officials should be paid at the median household income of US families so they are not insulated from the impacts of their decisions.

Elected officials should be paid at the median household income of US families so they are not insulated from the impacts of their decisions.

Voting

Not content with the power it holds over lawmakers in Washington, the American Petroleum Institute is now waging a battle against small towns. The powerful oil and gas lobbying group has weighed in on an important court case that will decide whether a town in rural, upstate New York has the right to ban oil and gas drilling activities – including the controversial fracking method – within its town borders. API, predictably, thinks that no town should have that right. Of the ten largest U.S. oil and gas companies, nine are API members. All nine of these companies have headquarters in Texas, Oklahoma, or California – states where courts or legislatures have determined that towns or cities have the right to ban oil or gas drilling within their borders. API members lost these battles on their home turf. Now they are trying to deny those rights in states where they want to open up large-scale oil and gas development. Towns that want to ban drilling and fracking shouldn’t have to worry about facing off in court against API, the most powerful lobbying group in the country. Will you tell the American Petroleum Institute to back off of communities that don’t want fracking and stop joining legal challenges against them? Sign the petition to support small towns standing up to the oil and gas industry.