You should live by the same standards you set for us, or we should live by yours! Get your own 401-K, retire after two terms, like the POTUS, shop around for your own medical insurance, stop voting on YOUR OWN pay increases, balance the budget, eliminate entitlements to illegal aliens, secure the border!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The victims of the bombing of the Murrah Bldg in OK City are being victimized again by the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. The Foundation withholds the money meant for the victims, diverted $4 million plus to other kinds of disaster relief. Nancy Anthony, president of the Foundation, pays herself $232,217 a year. The money should be distributed to the victims. Ken Feinberg volunteered pro bono to oversee distribution of the funds to the real bombing victims.

In watching Speaker Boehner over the last four years, I have become increasingly alarmed by his obvious alcohol problem. Although it is referred to by many TV (Joe Scarborough) and radio personalities offhandedly, we should all be concerned that he is not only unfit to handle his current responsibilities, but he would be absolutely incapable of assuming presidential responsibilities.

Grace Alexander, a 57-year-old grandmother from Newark, is struggling to save her home from Bank of America's foreclosure process. For more than two years, Grace has battled the big bank...and for more than two years Bank of America has given her the run around. Paperwork, phone calls, meetings…and even protests…have been met with nothing more than the runaround leading to wholly unrealistic offers from Bank of America. The greedy Wall Street bank’s most recent communication with Grace is a clear demonstration that they simply don’t care about Grace or the four generations of her family who have called the Newark house their home for the last 12 years. In a letter dated February 13th, 2013, Bank of America sent Grace Alexander an offensive reply to her request for a mortgage modification to save her home. Instead of working with her, Bank of America offered to INCREASE her monthly mortgage payment in a letter that began “You are on your way to a more affordable mortgage payment.” "I work for a living and I can pay a mortgage," says Grace. "But I cannot afford the inflated mortgage that I've been forced into, and I certainly can’t afford an increase to my monthly payment! Bank of America has the power and authority to save my home with the stroke of a pen. In fact, banks have the power to save the homes of all 100,000 NJ homeowners facing foreclosure this year by simply working with homeowners on principal write-downs." Surely Bank of America can do better for Grace – at the very least they should be better at math.

Approximately 17 teens give birth in South Carolina everyday and in 2008 the state paid approximately $198 million dollars on teen pregnancy. Teen mothers are more likely to live in poverty and survive on public assistance. Contraceptive education can help to prevent these issues. These are the facts: (from the SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy) *6,024 teens aged 15-19 gave birth in 2011 *26% of these were already teen parents *20% of teen pregnancies in 2010 ended in abortion *57% percent of high school students have reported that they have had sex Endorsing a comprehensive sexual education program that includes abstinence but also promotes proper contraception use can benefit the cause of ending teen pregnancy.

Please add your name to support senator Risser's legislative effort to ban the use of dogs in Wisconsin's lamentable wolf hunt, and to let the Governor and Legislature know your opposition to the killing of wolves for sport.

I am being affected by repaying taxes on the money I have paid taxes on throughout by worklife. It causes financial stress, this repaying taxes takes fund from the household. We down here in the less than 25 thousands are unable to meet daily living expenses with a gallon of milk cost $6.00; eggs $5 and bread $5. Where is the America that is fair and give all a fair chance?

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre-payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in Florida and want to keep it the way it is.

The Ohio State Legislature is 2/3 majority for the party that lost the last election; the same with Ohio's Congressional Representation. This is mirrored across the USA. State after State have been gerrymandered to the extent that we no longer have a representative form of government. The House of Representatives no longer represents the vote of the electorate. STOP THE GERRYMANDERING; STOP THE DECAY; SAVE OUR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.

-- The petition has been submitted. If you sign now we will submit again but to the new Pope. -- We were proud and humbled when the Catholic Council of Bishops led in calling for limitations on nuclear and other armaments that threaten the survival of life on earth. Additional threats to human existence, like over-population, now require your wisdom and compassion. -- Please revisit the Humanae Vitae published in 1968. Paragraph 26 of that document blames the world’s poverty and injustice entirely “on a lack of wisdom in government, on an insufficient sense of social justice, on selfish monopolization, or again on blameworthy indolence in confronting the efforts and the sacrifices necessary to ensure the raising of living standards of a people.” -- Surely a portion of that responsibility must also rest with ecclesiastics whose pronouncements which may have had a good faith basis in reason and morality to reaffirm the sanctity of life in one time, ironically and unintentionally no longer promote human survival and have become a significant contributor threatening all life, sanctified or otherwise. -- Worldwide population exceeds 7.1 billion. That will be 9 billion by mid-century. This growth has stretched earth’s resources beyond their limit likely causing the world population affected by water-scarcity to balloon from 8% in 2000 to 47% in 2030. -- Nations have been over-pumping their aquifers. Most are replenishable. Some are not. For example, in Yemen the water table is falling by approximately 6 feet per year. The quickly declining water tables and rapidly growing population have helped make Yemen a failed state. China’s Hai basin is facing a shortfall of approximately 40 billion tons of water per year. When its aquifer depletes, a 40 million ton decline in grain production will follow, leaving 130 million citizens looking elsewhere for food. Simultaneous over-pumping may lead to concurrent depletion of aquifers, agriculture cutbacks, and devastating world food scarcity. -- Fresh water and food production are intricately connected. Producing a ton of grain requires 1,000 tons of water. Water scarcity creates food shortages, raises food prices, and increases a countries’ dependence on food imports. Since producing grain requires large quantities of water, countries have begun cutting back on their grain production—opting to import instead. In several of the largest cities—including Los Angeles, Cairo, and New Delhi—water consumption can only be increased by reduction of agricultural water use. -- Unfettered procreation and ineffective birth control make efforts to conquer hunger and poverty futile. Lack of sufficient care and family planning services cause one woman to die every minute from pregnancy or childbirth complications. These women leave behind over 1 million children annually, who then become motherless and vulnerable. -- Girls younger than the age of 15 are five times more likely to die while giving birth than women who are in their twenties. Likewise, infants are 60% more likely to die in their first year of life with a mother who is younger than age 18. Family planning addresses this issue by allowing young girls to delay pregnancy until they are physically developed enough to give birth in a healthy manner. -- Turning a blind eye to the effects of misguided birth-control policies is not a loving response. Tacitly promoting use of more than one’s share of our world’s resources is not ethical. -- We have been fruitful and multiplied to the point where we no longer fill the sea (as Genesis 1:22 admonished us to do) but deplete it. Now we must “interpret the present time,” judge for ourselves “what is right” (Luke 13:54-57) with resource efficiency evaluation, and become better stewards of God’s earth. (1 Peter 4:10) -- Meeting the need for family planning reduces unintended pregnancies. This, in turn, lowers the cost of providing women with maternal and newborn care by $5.1 billion. -- Therefore, we implore you and your new Pope to approve artificial birth control as a gift from God while also requesting parishioners to limit the number of children they have. Also, please commit to educating women in your parishes to at least the eighth grade level and educating both genders concerning the over-population issue. It’s one of the things you can do to limit over-population.

Far too many Kansans don't have health insurance. Already, seven Republican governors have agreed to accept the funds. Right now Governor Brownback and the Kansas Legislature are threatening to give up federal funds that would cover more hard-working Kansans. Currently, KanCare (Medicaid) eligibility in Kansas is one of the lowest in the country – roughly 32% of the federal poverty level (less than $6,000 a year for a family of 4). The state of Kansas can raise its KanCare eligibility threshold to 133% of the federal poverty level (a little less than $31,000 a year for a family of 4) and federal funds will cover 100% of the cost for those newly eligible Kansans who enroll. After the first three years, the proportion of federal dollars would be incrementally reduced to 90 percent. Kansas would never pay more than ten percent for this huge benefit to our state. It is estimated that if Kansas accepts federal funds and extends KanCare to more Kansans, more than 100,000 would enroll. Most of these Kansans are currently uninsured. Hospitals receive federal funding to compensate for the care that they provide to uninsured Kansans. A portion of that federal funding will be phased out over time. If Kansas does not accept federal funds to extend KanCare to more uninsured Kansans, hospitals will have to cover the shortfall themselves. Moreover, if the state does not accept these federal funds, many Kansans will have no other affordable health insurance option available to them. These Kansans cannot afford health coverage in the private market and under current eligibility guidelines in Kansas they aren’t currently eligible for KanCare. Without affordable health insurance options, many hard-working, low-income Kansans and their families are falling through the cracks. They do not receive the medical care they need, and they cannot access the preventive care necessary to catch illness before it worsens. This leads to more expensive treatment, amputation, and even early death. The health, well-being, and quality of life of these uninsured and underinsured Kansans matter. Their inability to access the health care they need affects all of us - our communities, workforce and families.

Steven Brill has laid out, in the March 6 issue of Time Magazine, a comprehensive and compelling case for further healthcare reform. No one can oppose these sensible reforms without responding to the case made here so authoritatively.