The state of south Carolina ranks near the bottom nationally in education. Improved funding of under performing schools and increasing teacher pay could go a long way to improving the state's educational system. Investing in children and teachers today will yield both monetary and social dividends.

Elected officials in our countries House and Senate continue to attack Social Security and Medicaid programs and organized labor. Those same elected officials receive a life time pension paid for by tax payers, the only job that rewards a pension after only a few years of service. This movement demands an end to tax payer funded pensions for elected officials, requiring the program to be privatized.

Female Nudity has been around for a long time and most likely always will be but it has gotten more gratuitous and offensive in the recent years. There have been dozen of times where I had to turn off a movie because it was so offensive and it has happened to not only me but many of my colleagues as well. In an actively sexist society I know it will always be a battle and there will be the endless name calling "prude!, it's just a movie" etc etc. but I stand for what I believe in and I think there is WAY too much female nudity in media and cinema. I would like to end it. If not end it, at least make limits or lessen it for the sake of female viewers who would like to see movies too. Just because a person is an adult, doesn't mean they always want to see "adult" things...a majority being in the female form. Lets take a break from objectifying women.

There are more than 27,000 wells in the US and each well uses 1-8 million gallons of water and 80-300 tons of chemicals each time it's fracked (wells can be fracked up to 8 times). The fracking industry remains exempt from Clean Water, Safe Drinking Water and Clean Air Acts, hazardous waste disposal and other federal regulations. This is absurd! Please help keep our water safe!

Hydraulic Fracturing is a dangerous thing Think of all the dangers it brings Gas drillers make money and if we frack New York our water will be ruined.

Over 46 million Americans lack health insurance. A comparable number are underinsured. Those with insurance are paying more in premiums and more out-of-pocket as well. And even the insured may face bankruptcy if they get sick. Many have to choose between paying for medicine and paying for food and housing. A national, universal, single-payer health care program, or Improved Medicare for All, as defined by U.S. House Bill H.R. 676, would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that builds on the existing Medicare program. It would improve and expand Medicare to cover all U.S. residents. It's time to choose people over profits!

Cuba is a beautiful country, which many Americans visit, despite the failed embargo that has been in place for 50 years. Americans and American business should have the same right to visit Cuba, or do business with Cuba, as the rest of the world does.

Bill recently passed that will allow teachers to carry a gun in the classroom.

It is not fair to have the State of Florida sponsor a license plate for "prolife" argument without sponsoring one for the other side, the pro choice argument. It is not fair for athiests living in Florida

According to a study conducted by a consortium or nations, studying the claims made by Monsanto that genetically engineered seeds will be drought resistant, will creater higher yields, as well as pest and weed control. These ge seeds underperformed in yield and pests and weeds appear to be have better adaptive properties than the genetically engineered crops.www.centerforfoodsafety.org. GMO-Emperor-final-10-11.pdf

A petition to retract the Reagan administration regulations on private citizens making fuel Alcohol, for personal use. We used to be allowed to make fuel for personal vehicles, under Carter, at about a dollar a gallon. If we were permitted to do that again, the oil companies would have a serious incentive to lower the cost of gasoline.

To facilitate a greater good in America, we demand that all Legislators submit to a Blood Drawn Drug Test just as Legislators are demanding recipients of public assistance be tested. We demnad people making these decisions effecting the PUBLIC be tested, regularly and randomly.