• Start cutting funds from the TOP!!!
    A co-worker of mine was telling me about her friend that takes care of her aunt and uncle who are both in their 70s. They both have dementia and need round-the-clock care. It became too much for the caretaker to take care of them both and so the uncle went into a nursing home. Just last week, the caretaker was told that her uncle would be losing all medicaid and would have to leave the nursing home. It took him 6 minutes and 45 seconds to get one shoe off his foot - and it was a slip on shoe. And that, my friends, made him lose his medicaid. Enough of this insanity. I think this country has really reached an all time low! It's got to stop. Please help me have our voices heard and perhaps "wake-up" the hearts of the politicians, rich and powerful people who seem to only care about themselves!
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    Created by Marsha Forman
  • Paycuts for Congress
    Where in Congress's proposal for a twenty-percent across-the-board pay cut for Federal employees is the same twenty-percent pay cut for members of Congress and the President? Are they not Federal employees? Aren't these the people who keep telling us that everyone must share the burden? The across-the-board cuts set to go into effect at the end of the week will hurt the economy and should be stopped. But if Congress insists on cutting anyone's salary, they should cut their own paychecks first. We pay their salaries. It is up to us to demand that they accept the same percentage of reduction to their paycheck as every other Federal employee.
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    Created by Jenny Garden
  • Please allow My wife to stay in the USA
    My wife of ten years is a disabled stroke survivor and depends on me to care for her. Homeland security has demanded she leave the USA where we own a home. I have filed a I-130 application for a green-card and need for my wife remain in the USA while she waits for the visa to be approved.
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    Created by Wesley Pringle
  • Cambridge Council: Keep Cambridge Livable for its Residents!
    I am an affordable housing advocate who has lived in Cambridge, MA for over 30 years, and I am deeply worried about the future of my home town. Big real estate developers like Forest City are asking the Cambridge City Council to change zoning laws to allow much taller and bigger buildings all over Cambridge, so the developers can make more money. I think allowing high-rise office, lab, and market-rate apartment buildings in Kendall Square, Central Square, Alewife, and Northpoint will continue to drive rents and housing prices up. The tens of thousands of additional auto, bus and truck trips per day will intensify traffic congestion, worsen air quality, and make the streets less safe. High-rise buildings threaten to create shadows and wind tunnels, block sky views, increase noise pollution, and remove green space. The city of Cambridge does not have a current and complete Master Plan to guide equitable development.
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    Created by Lee Farris
  • Immigration Reform time has come in Delaware
    Sign the petition to be presented at the La Raza Advocay Day in DC, on March 6, 2013. Your congressionall legislators from Delaware need to hear you support Comprehensive Immigration Reform right now.This will make Delaware families and communities better.
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    Created by Charito Calvachi-Mateyko
  • Ohio: Defund Discriminatory Organizations
    The Boy Scouts of America currently hold a BAN on homosexuals; they have expelled them from leadership positions and stopped deserving boys from getting their eagle awards.
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    Created by David fedyniak
  • Label GMO's in NY
    I want to know what is in our food. I care about my families health and I'm sure you do. We should have the right to decide for ourselves if we want to eat Genetically Modified Organisms or NOT.
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    Created by Christy Hall
  • Oregon needs the 2nd amendment
    The 2nd amendment is critical to a free society. Even the FBI has agreed that more gun control will accomplish nothing.
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    Created by Teri Whittlinger
  • Reduce The Use of Plastic Bags
    Plastic bags have a high cost on the health of our environment and ourselves. They drift through our streets and end up in our water, where they form massive plastic structures and degrade into a microscopic form that winds up in our bodies or our food, adversely affecting our endocrine systems. While a plastic bag tax may seem like an imposition it would actually help encourage people to reduce their plastic dependency and the money it raises could directly fund bioremediation projects across the country and the globe.
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    Created by Ryan Gellis
  • Change Of Office of Aging
    Changing Berk County PA. Office of Aging to Lancaster Office of Aging because The Office of Aging at Berk County, Reading PA, is very Protective with the Perpretator, Jane Torres, Putting the Victim, Eusebia Calderon age 81, Court File No.82842 at Rick and the Victim Now Recides at Golden Living, nursery, address, 425 N Duke Street, third floor, Lancaster PA County 17602
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    Created by Luz
  • Partisanship in our government
    I am sick and tired of all of the blaming that goes on in the US Congress.
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    Created by Jane Kober
  • Yale Dean Robert Alpern: Don't Use Immigrants as Guinea Pigs
    Yale University has plans to partner with the Department of Defense to create a military interrogation training center that would use immigrants as test subjects. The plan specifically calls for test subjects that are “someone they [soldiers] can’t necessarily identify with, ”specifically “Moroccans, Columbians, Nepalese, Ecuadorians and others.” Lumping people of color in a category as out-of-the-norm folks who soldiers (many of whom are immigrants themselves) can’t identify with? And then using them as test subjects to test out war techniques? It is outrageous that the university would consider such a highly offensive plan. Dean Robert Alpern and other Yale leaders who are considering this proposal care a lot about the university’s public image. Yale depends on alumni for funding and already some former students have threatened to stop making donations after they heard about the center. If thousands of us sign this petition, the media will take notice and Dean Alpern will be forced to rethink this highly offensive plan.
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    Created by Presente.org