This petition is intended to inform our members of Congress regarding fair and equitable calculation methods of the Cost-of-Living increases for Social Security. fv

If the president cuts Social Security, there are going to be more homeless people than there are now.

I am a resident, tax payer, and voter within the Bethlehem Area School District. Over the last few months the BASD Board of Directors have been debating the 2013-2014 school year budget, as well as other important issues. As a resident, tax payer, and voter of the district I believe that our children's education should be the top priority of the district and especially the board of directors. It has been made very clear to "us" the public that the district, community, and our children are not Director Vidanage's top priority. He has an atrocious/embarrassing attendance record for meetings/budget hearings. In 2011, I casted my vote in favor of Mr. Vidanage, because I then believed our children would been his top priority. Since then I have been proven wrong by his lack of attendance. Mr. Vidanage shows up late to meetings, leaves early, or doesn't even bother to show up at all. By doing this he has violated his obligation to the district, students, and tax payers. In 2011, Mr. Vidanage swore an oath to "us" the tax payers and the district when he said, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity." Since then he has violated that oath and his obligations. Therefore "we" the tax payers, parents, community, and voters ask that Mr. Vidanage resign from the Bethlehem Area School Board of Directors. If he choses not to follow the wishes of those who have elected him, then "we" ask the Board of Directors to declare Mr. Vidanage's seat abandoned/vacated.

Please do not pass the presidents proposed cuts to Social Security Benefits and cost of living increases, These are people barely existing as it is and to take money away from them,. after they had paid their entire lives, is disgraceful and moral and humanly wrong. Please vote against this issue and try to get your fellow congressmen to also vote no.

Trust Fund accounts such as Medicare and Social Security, should not be included in the accounting of the General Fund.

We need to pass gun control legislation in Arkansas which will help us protect our children and families in public places. Connecticut and Colorado have recently passed State gun legislation which we should use as our pattern to guide this effort.

There are slaughter houses being considered in Oklahoma and New Mexico. As a country we need to stop this senseless slaughter of our wild horses in this country!

We work at Guitar Center and we are organizing across the country to improve wages and working conditions for all Guitar Center employees. We love our jobs and our passion is helping our customers achieve their musical dreams. But we often have trouble making ends meet, thanks to low wages and fluctuating hours. We are asked to do many non-selling tasks which hurt our commissions. Sales workers do not receive sick days, health benefits are expensive and part timers are not even offered health benefits. It’s been an exciting year for the Guitar Center campaign: workers in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas have successfully organized a union at their workplaces, over 100 bands and artists have endorse the campaign, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions supporting us. However, the company has responded by refusing to give us a fair contract and has launched an aggressive campaign to bust the union. The company’s last offer is worse than non-union stores. It is meant to punish us for standing up for ourselves. Our union has been forced to file charges detailing the company’s bad faith negotiating and union busting. We now say: Enough is Enough. We are asking the public to support us as we enter the final stages of negotiations! Sign the petition below to help us get a fair contract and a support our union. Artist Endorsees: Tom Morello Kathleen Hanna Roger Waters Ted Leo A Wilhelm Scream Activator Alan Cage (Quicksand) Alan Bennett Aloe Blacc Alvvays And We Danced Andy Nelson (Paint it Black, Ceremony, Dark Blue) Anoraak Anti-Flag ¡Aparato! Arms Aloft The Attic Ends B. Dolan Beast Patrol Beneath Acacia The Bennies Bent Shapes Bevel Summers Bigger Thomas Billy Bragg B*tch Bluffing Bones Jugs N Harmony Bonesetters Boots Riley (The Coup) Born in a Cent Brass Messengers Breedloves Burn Everything Cambalache Canasta The Cell Phones Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Chicano Batman Chris Farren (of Fake Problems) Chris Frasco Chumped Chunkie Soup Circa '95 Claudio Rivera (Motion City Soundtrack) Computer at Sea Cory Johnson (Impending Doom, Sleeping Giant) Curtis McMurtry Danbert Nobacon (Chumbawamba) David Rovics David Saphra Dean Wareham Devon Kay & The Solutions DJ Torch Downtown Boys Due North East of the Wall Elway Empty Lungs Eric Ayotte Et Tu Brute Evan Greer & Friends Ezra Furman and the Harpoons The Fatty Acids The Fever Haze Flaccid French Horn Rebellion F*cked Up Gameday Regulars The Gashers Gay Panic Glue Gun GoldBoot Gravity A The Grim The Grizzled Mighty Hold Tight! Homewreckers The Hood Internet Hostage Calm The Hoteliers I See Hawks in LA Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) Jasiri X JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN) Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) Jesse Malin John Darnielle (the Mountain Goats) John Wright (Railroad Music) Jonny Rumble Karen and the Sorrows Katastrophe Krill L Train Las Cafeteras Las Vegas Gangstaz The Last Internationale Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Leftover Crack Less Than Jake Local 802 AFM (Associated Musicians of Greater New York) Los Rakas Luther Rix Lyrically Illz Matt Cross (Orange 9mm and ex-Guitar Center worker) Matt Pantelis Matt Reilly (Japanther) Max Bernstein (Ke$ha) Mike Golden & Friends Mike Park (Asian Man Records) The Molotov Mother Falcon The Muggs Murdoc My Body Sings Electric The New Diet Non Exotic On Your Marx The People's Whiskey The Remedies Paint it Black Painted Saints Paper Holland Paul Davis Pet Tigers Plague of Pilgrims Prawn Propagandhi P.Y.M.P. Quetzal Random Rab Ray Korona Rebel Diaz Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Rise Against Robbie Alan Robot Death Kites Rocky Rivera Roger Harvey & The Wildlife Rosetta Rude Mechanical Orchestra RVIVR Saintseneca Sam Jayne (Love as Laughter) Sean Daley (Atmosphere) Sergio Vega (Deftones, Quicksand) The Sights Ski Lodge Slavic Soul Party! Slonk Donkerson Small Reactions Smalls The Smith Street Band So So Glos Sons of an Illustrious Father Sorrows Spiritchild Spring Heeled Jack Starlight Girls Stephanie Johnstone Steve Earle Street Dogs STRFKR The Taxpayers The Thermals Thee Oh Sees This City Called Earth Thollem Electric Tommy Siegel (Jukebox the Ghost) The Underground Railroad to Candyland Unicorn Fukr Vincent Cross Violent Bullsh#t Voodoo Visionary Vulture Sh*t War on Women Water Borders The Way Down Wanderers We Are All Savages We Are the Union Who Needs You Wilder Maker The Wood Brothers Worriers Zelienople Zuzuka Poderosa

According to Veteran's Administration statistics, 22 veterans commit suicide, every day. My own Navy vet son took his life on 1/3/13. With a backlog of 1 million veterans waiting for processing via the VA, how many more will lose hope and take their lives? Veterans sacrificed for our freedom, we must ensure they get the best care. Enact and fund policies and programs that go further than suicide hotlines for veterans. Many veterans are suffering from PTSD and other issues that are treatable, however, they need immediate attention. Waiting months or years for treatment is too long. Often, filling out paperwork is too much of a burden on those already suffering. Making a life-saving phone call is impossible for someone who is not in their right mind. Veterans suffering from PTSD and other disorders cannot be expected to wait for the VA to call their number. There is a disconnect between discharge & VA treatment. Find the gaps, and fix them. We cannot claim to be patriots if we do not protect and support the very people who make our lives and freedom possible.

President Obama is talking about cutting Social Security benefits. Social Security was never set up for the government to have access to in the first place. This is money paid by all the taxpayers and that we have worked hard for. For many seniors, this is all they get in retirement, and cutting this would harm millions of seniors already affected by the economy.

Over the last few years, groups across the country have called for an end to describing the more than 12 million undocumented immigrants that live in America as "illegal." The movement is headlined by efforts of Jose Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who announced in 2011 that he is an undocumented immigrant. Since that time, activists from across the country have pressured elected officials and news organizations to stop using the term "illegal" when describing America's millions of immigrants. Just recently, the Associated Press has announced they will stop using the term "illegal immigrant" or the term "illegal" when describing a person. They correctly reasoned that a behavior is illegal, but a person is not. The New York Times is also reconsidering using the term. An analysis by the Sunlight Foundation has found that Congressmen Lamar Smith and Ted Poe employed the term "illegal immigrant" the most over the last five years. Sign the petition and tell them that a behavior is illegal, but a person is not.

My 10 year old son attends an inner city school in Washington, DC. He is consumed with concern that another Newtown could place.