Qualified job applicants should not be judged by a credit score in order to gain employment. This is a terrible practice. Someone had some hard luck like illness, divorce, job loss in the economic downturn lost their home, car, fell behind on bills. Now they get a double gut punch when they apply for a job and don't get it based on credit. This has to stop!

The goal is to get the US government to use this simple new type of economic plan, fully displayed at ( www.econostan.com/8701.html ), to relieve unemployment. It will jump start the economy, quickly produce full employment, and reduce the national debt, with no inflation. Plan Summary: RAISE business taxes for 3 years by suspending business tax code advantages and simultaneously giving the businesses tax credits roughly equal to the tax increase IF they expand or modernize their US business. Business heads will put their money into their businesses rather than pay taxes so they will have to hire to get the tax credit. New employees spend more than when they were unemployed so demand increases. Businesses expand so they can supply more (and earn more). So the ratio of supply to demand stays roughly the same and therefore prices do also. National Debt is unchanged since no government money is spent. If the tax credit is unused then spend the tax receipts on infrastructure.

It is time to limit the corporate tax deduction to wages included in the Social Security wage base and tax the excess as a dividend. Why do we only pay on the first $117,000? Why not all wages? Why are corporations allowed to deduct this excessive salary but exclude it from social security? Does that seem fair? Limit the deduction and tax the excess as a dividend. And include all income, not only salary. Why is interest exempt? And legislators need to pay as well, no one, except our Veteran's, should be exempt from social security. We also need to limit the corporate tax deduction for travel, meals and entertainment. Why are we subsidizing private corporate jets and lavish meals, parties and "meetings"? Limit the tax deduction to the Federal Per Diem and tax the excess as a dividend. It is time we redefine entitlements. Social Security is a lifeline for many seniors, and it is time we protect them and ensure they can retire with dignity and financial security.

We are all impacted by the illegal activities of the "too large to fail/jail banks," such as those of JPMorgan. In February, a group of JPMorgan shareholders filed a resolution to divide the chairman and chief executive posts, but the board is lobbying against it. This is one way to provide some additional oversight. Vanguard and Blackrock, the top shareholders, have decided the outcome of shareholder votes in the past 82.2% of the time.

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Our Social Security system has never contributed a penny to the deficit. Yet the President is planning to include cuts to Social Security in the budget he releases this year. The debt we have comes from a decade of tax cuts for the wealthy, unlimited spending on foreign wars and a recession caused by unregulated Wall Street speculation. It’s wrong to ask senior citizens, veterans and the disabled to pay for the greed of the top 1%. The President is proposing to use a cut called the “Chained CPI” that will cut benefits for every single Social Security beneficiary—now and in the future. The average earner would lose $4,631 in Social Security benefits by age 75, $13,910 by age 85; and $28,004 by age 95. These cuts are an even bigger threat to the disabled and veterans, who would face the COLA cut for 30, 40 years or more. For example, a severely disabled, unmarried veteran who claims Veterans Disability Compensation benefits today at age 30 would experience a cumulative cut of $60,121 by age 65 and $144,189 by age 85!* The average Social Security benefit is only $13,833. Over 12 million beneficiaries live on 125% of the poverty level ($13,485) or less. We have earned our retirement and disability benefits by contributing a portion of every paycheck to Social Security. And veterans have earned their benefits by putting their lives on the line for our country. ---- * According to “Inflation Indexation in Major Federal Benefit Programs: Impact of the Chained CPI,” Alison Shelton, AARP Public Policy Institute, March 2013. http://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/research/public_policy_institute/econ_sec/2013/impact-of-chained-cpi-federal-programs-fs-AARP-ppi-econ-sec.pdf

Stacy Campfield is sponsoring bill SB 132 designed to improve academic performance of children who are doing poorly in school by cutting the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families received by their parents or guardians. As things like rent, utilities, and gas are fixed items in a family's budget the items most likely to be cut back when the budget is reduced are from the food and medicine areas. Many studies preformed over many years consistently established that students perform better when they are adequately fed. Years and years ago when I taught school, it was easy to spot the all around improvement--both academic and disciplinary--in children once the free breakfast was implemented, thus making it especially hard for me to comprehend how this bill would improve the academic performance of children by limiting their access to food.

Accountability. If you want to covertly insert something into a bill about to be voted on…expect to have to explain yourself later!

Money-making ticket writing via fear and PR rhetoric to convince us that "abuse is good for us."

Accountability. If you want to covertly insert something into a bill about to be voted on…expect to have to explain yourself later!

President Obama will reportedly propose a budget in which Social Security and Medicare benefits and income taxes brackets are calculated using a "chained CPI" method. That amounts to future benefit cuts and income tax increases for those who can least afford them, and is a betrayal of the people of the United States. Accordingly, we, the undersigned, will not ever again support *any* politician or candidate -- Democrat or otherwise, federal, state or local -- who does not publicly join us here or elsewhere in opposing this measure, or who votes for such a budget. [Drafted by a Maryland resident. Please feel free to copy this petition and target your state instead of Maryland, as well as President Obama and the entire U.S. House and Senate.]