To understand why this petition is needed go to my blog at: http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS WARNED AGAINST FAMILY LAW CORRUPTION More state revenue is raised from alimony collecting, motivating longer duration alimony than justified An American Bar Association (ABA) web site (abajournal.com) is inviting comments on a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) letter sent to “Dear Colleague” on March 14, 2016 which addresses current state and local court practices that run afoul of federal law. The letter sets forth the requirements of several principles that need to be followed to correct the situation. Press coverage of this important development however reported only on Principles 1 thru 4 relating to harmful effect of fees and fines associated with the illegal enforcement of court ordered support payments upon the indigent and minorities. What has been ignored is the DOJ’s less emotional concerns, Principle 7, which addresses opportunities for wrongdoing (corruption) when contractors are hired to act as proxies. An example can be the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) employing a private contractor as its State Disbursement Unit (SDU) to implement the federal Welfare Reform Act by having it take over management of court ordered support collecting that creates data for calculating how large its reward from the federal government will be for collecting the support. Principle 7 of the DOJ letter (https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/832461/download) warns that “Courts must safeguard against unconstitutional practices by court staff and private contractors.” That means the payment management practices they carry out is suspect, as explained by DOJ’s analogous examples (last two paragraphs, page 8 of the letter) since DOR is the Act’s designee and has a pecuniary interest (revenue generation) in the outcome of its decision on which court ordered payments its contractor collects (the more child and spousal support contractors collect, the greater the incentive rewards DOR can receive.) One example of the illegal activity associated with misuse of the federal Welfare Reform Act is Florida having its contractor ignore the federal regulation establishing nationwide that spousal support is alimony for custodial parents so it consequently receives a larger, undeserved, percentage portion of the Act’s shared incentive fund pool by also accounting for lifetime alimony collecting that is not spousal support. Therefore nationwide implementation of the Act is unconstitutional because bureaucrats are allowing some states to not comply with the law while denying the compliant states protection by choosing not to impose available penalties and stop the resulting fraud which is harming them by reducing their percentage share of the incentive payment pool. I documented Florida’s harmful government program fraud in my blog dated March 2, 2016 http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com which was emailed to federal law enforcement with my request for an independent investigation of that situation, but there has not been any acknowledgement of my request. Therefore I hope anyone not in agreement with the apparent thinking that an investigation is not warranted will let the ABA know by going to their web site at http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/justice_department_warns_local_courts_about_illegal_enforcement_of_fees_and and post a comment. (Published April 2, 2016 on my Facebook page under title “Corruptive Effects of Lifetime Alimony”)

Two out of every five Philadelphians have no paid sick days off -- meaning when they are sick they can't stay home, or can't stay home to take care of sick family members. Philly's City Council tried to pass a bill last year to make sure everyone gets paid sick days, but Comcast spent tens of thousands of dollars to defeat it. The bill is back on the table, and together, we must tell Comcast to stop fighting our rights to paid sick days.

Fracking has been proven harmful to both the Colorado environment and the health of its citizens. It is vital that the governor step up and protect the physical health of the state by stopping a major cause of environmental degradation and climate change.

ANIMALS ARE INNOCENT. THIS IS INHUMANE. LETHAL INJECTION NEEDS TO BE USED, NOT GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For too long we have been robbed of our ability to clean up the air, water, and food issues (truthful labeling), because of opportunists who would lose money. Deliberately deceptive tactics have been used in bill wording to hoodwink people, who may vote against their own interests. The intention and results of a bill may be completely disguised. There are those who pro-ported to create jobs by clear cutting 7/8 of the great redwoods population, unique to our part of the world, who have not created anything but a sad paucity of rain forest, and its subsequent results. Redwood was shipped out of the country, enriching only the businesses who schemed.

Stop the EEOC from accepting bribes from JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota, Inc. in Deerfield Beach, Florida. JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota, Inc. and the Broward County Florida’s Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Miami Florida needs to be investigated and brought to justice for corruption. African Americans are having their civil rights violated and the EEOC is being paid off by JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota, Inc. to look the other way and eventually dismiss all charges against JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota. This is not fair, not right, not just and has to stop and the individuals involved need to be outted and brought to justice. They are suppose to investigate these charges, not take bribes from companies they are suppose to investigate.

My son 16 Christian A. Dotson 16 yr old honor student lived a life of hope and promise! The dreams Christian had were cut short when he was murdered with an illegal gun on the streets of Philadelphia. My son Christian along with many other youths never get the opportunity to live out their dreams, they're just waited on night after night to visit loved ones in dreams! We need stricter gun control laws. RIP Son and the many scores of silenced voices due to gun violence. Christian deserves a vote!

Drexel University is motioning to move from the well-loved quarter system to the standard semester school calendar. This will create numerous problems with Co-op cycles, credit transfers, and degree plans of study. The University needs to hear our opinion on this matter before moving forward.

Some legislators are all too ready to throw the powerless under the bus in the name of deficit reduction. Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, will not only damage the economy, but will be disastrous for the elderly, who already have trouble making ends meet. That's why I've started this petition to Representative Nugent asking him to sign the letter created by Alan Grayson, FL, and Mark Takano, CA, which promises to vote against any proposed cut to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We need jobs, not cuts to the big three—and our representatives must listen to their constituents.

Ancestry.com created a commercial where a man says "I was afraid as an African American, I knew where my family history might end up...my grandfather was born a slave but died a business man." The implication here is that ancestors of slaves should be embarrassed of this history. (Watch commercial here: http://youtu.be/WQQ9gjBby10). This commercial is insensitive, and the implication that anyone should be ashamed of their families' past is unacceptable. Slavery, poverty and struggle are a part of our history as Americans. Ancestry.com needs to pull this commercial from the air. This method of marketing is offensive.

2500 People live on or about the streets of Portland. They receive enough S.S.I/S.S.D. / Oregon Trail Cash to pay for a Salem Approved Shelter System Investment. Start Here: STATE ADVANCE / S.S.I. / $5K NANO NONPROFITS ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Our own S.S.I. money paid forward to invest in Portland modular shelter system ideas! ~~~~~Love, www.nickelnonprofits.org

Taking away health insurance and benfits.