the social security fund belongs to the american taxpayers,not congress,or the whitehouse.If congress wants to do some thing raise the cap,or leave it alone.

The Washington Post of March 21st reported that the bipartisan 'Gang of Eight' senators had approved a plan pushed by lobbyists of large US technology companies such as IBM and Intel to double H1B visa allocations. If this plan was adopted, the prospects for current and perspective American IT workers would become even bleaker than now. Not only would they face being displaced by a wave of cheaper foreign workers, foreign companies use the H1B visa to allow their workers to come to the US and be trained by the American workers they are displacing. If we wish to keep the promise of middle-class jobs for any more than a tiny minority of Americans, we must stop the Gang of Eight's plan.

The use of the electoral college for electing the President of the United States should not last another election. Because of this laughably outdated system, the candidate who receives the most votes can lose the election. This has already happened twice in American history and once in our lifetimes. If that weren't enough, the current state-by-state system is also weighted against states like New York that have the misfortune to have a predictable majority. While the concerns of people from sharply divided “swing states” like Iowa receive lavish attention from presidential hopefuls, the concerns of New Yorkers get virtually ignored on the campaign trail, except when the candidates drop by to pick up their big money contributions. In the last two months of the 2012 presidential election, the presidential and vice presidential candidates of both parties did not even visit New York once. The battleground state of Ohio got 73 visits. We need to replace the state-by-state system of elections with a national popular vote. It was thought that doing this would require a constitutional amendment at the federal level. However, all that is required is for states representing 270 electoral votes to agree to commit their presidential electors to whoever wins the popular vote. This proposal is called the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” and it has already been voted into law by a host of other states, from Maryland to California, representing 132 electoral votes. Here's the link: http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/. New York should join them and put the project past the halfway point. This bill has passed the State Senate twice in the last two years with large, bipartisan majorities and odds are, if it was voted on in the State Assembly, it would pass. But it has never been brought to a vote in the State Assembly, most likely due to the reluctance of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Speaker Silver needs to allow the legislation to be introduced for an up or down vote, so that New Yorkers can have a more equal voice in choosing our next President. You don't need to wait four years to let your voice be heard. Sign on now! And tell your friends about this exciting opportunity to make our votes count.

Currently there are bills in the Hawaii State Legislature proposing to decriminalize and make it easier to use Marijuana recreationally. Passing such a law would endanger the general public due to increased use and abuse of Marijuana. The potential for the increase of drivers under the influence of Marijuana causing accident with serious injuries or death is likely occur. Any bill or law passed to allow decriminalization of Marijuana must include strict penalties for those who abuse Marijuana to the point where their judgement and senses are impaired. Standards as to how to determine when a person is physically or judgementally impaired must be established, simular to that of Intoxicated driver by alcoholic beverages. Before any laws are passed there should be clear and exact guidelines as to levels of THC in blood that would cause impairment, testing procedure and standards of evidence collection and strict penalties for those convicted of impairment.

The climate crisis is no longer a myth. From unpredictable and severe storms, crop failure, drought, and flooding, to rising tides, drowning islands, and thousands of acres of forests on fire....we need strong climate legislation from the U.S. government. Now. The fossil fuel industry is rampantly mining and drilling more of the antiquated (dinosaur) forms of fuel that have been largely responsible for the planet's current climate crisis. We can do better! This February, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced The Climate Protection Act of 2013 (S.332) and The Sustainable Energy Act (S.329). These acts need co-sponsors from as many Senators as possible in order for them to reach the Senate floor for a vote, and then to advance to the House for their vote. We can do this. According to Sen. Sanders his climate change legislation would help business,create jobs, and save billions of dollars on disaster relief. "The price that America can not afford to pay is the price of doing nothing to reverse global warming", he states. Please sign this petition to let your lawmakers know that we are serious about national climate legislation and that as voters we are watching them. Thank you. P.S. Nothing says -' we are serious and we vote' - than a personal visit with your lawmaker. Consider getting friends together to visit them at their district offices when they are back home in your area. Ask your Senators to co-sponsor S.329 and S.332. Inform your House Reps that you expect action from them on this as well. You can find out when your lawmakers are back home for recess at: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/one_item_and_teasers/2013_schedule.htm Find your lawmakers home offices at: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

If the furloughs are not stopped, every Civilian Service employee at every military hospital will be cut 8 hrs per week which will drastically reduce patient access to medical care which already is critically less than what is needed. Our military service men and women, their families, and retirees have made great sacrifices and deserve the health care they have earned, and nothing less. Our patients will then have to seek the medical care they need elsewhere which will cost at least 1.5 times the cost for their care if provided at the military hospitals by Civilian Service employees. Repeal the sequester, stop the furloughs!

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. Notified residents of Foundation House in Federal Way WA that they would be charged $150 per year for a computer enviornment that was set in place in late 2012. Residents were not asked if they were interested, and were told there would be no cost to them, in fact the facility used the new computers and wi-fi as an enticement to prospective residents.

This is a petition to targeted members of the United States Congress asking them to support sensible gun safety legislation.

The Mattawa Community is petitionin the City to please bring back the soccer goal posts that were removed from the community park. Playing soccer at the park was one on Mattawa's main community envolvements, taking the posts away took a piece of the Community away from this city.

Indiana has the fourth-largest number of out-of-state college students in America. Like all such students, they're allowed, constitutionally, to vote either at home or at college. But now a member of the Indiana House has introduced HB 1311, prohibiting out-of-state students from voting in Indiana's elections. This is an unconstitutional effort to suppress the vote, so HB 1311 must be rejected.

The legislature has attempted to enact a medical MJ law in New York. There are many thousands of New Yorkers, myself amongst them. who have total & permanent disabilities which will end only with out deaths. We pay our taxes, obey the laws. We've needed relief from the pain and suffering our disabilities have caused us since the 1960s that this wonder drug will bring. In the absence of equal protection & equal Justice before the laws of New York which a medical MJ law would bring us, we are routinely Discriminated against by employers prejudiced against us. We need the dignity that regular employment will afford us now more than ever due to the creeping hyperinflation which the Federal Government has allowed by permitting the Federal Reserve to over print currency thus devaluing the buying power of our dollars. For those of us especialy who are retired, that bad monentary policy seeks to make Social Security into a poverty program. We disabled citizens all have a right to work, and a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. New York is a right to work State. We ask only for what is owed us: the freedom from hunger, freedom from fear which were amongst FDR's 4 Freedoms. It is even more unjust to war against injured people as it is against nations. We and the natural medicine we need to relieve our suffering are not the issue. It's the injury of the injustice of keeping us from our legitimate medicine which is the issue. Ignorance, prejudice, indifference are not a just basis to perpetuate the privation we experience. We petition to have the medical profession determine our right to prescriptions, not cops.

I have been in the Auto Repair and Towing Business for 14 years and the unsafe conditions of most vehicles is appalling! We are 1 of 10 States in the US that does not implement Yearly Safety Inspections. Yearly Safety Inspections not only provides protection for our loved ones, it also boosts the economy. Most citizens of the state are tired of paying property tax over and over again on the same vehicle. With payment of an inspection fee and necessary repairs, the customer has something substantial they can see and touch.