Retired teachers in Texas have not had a raise in over ten years. While the cost of living rises annually, we fall further and further behind financially. The Texas legislature has, over the years, used education monies for a number of other pursuits. We wish to have our retirements considered significant enough to be fully funded.

GRADUATES!! ( Change is here) Do you owe federal students loans? Do you have financial hardship? Did you graduate from college or vocational school? Do you need assistance in paying off your student loans? If your answer is "yes" to all the above, you may qualify. A revolutionary new program to rescue those experiencing financial\economic hardship in paying off their Federal student loans is being launched. This innovative program is bringing a radical paradigm shift to this student loan repayment problem. To benefit from this program, there has to be a strong support base from eligible candidates who sign this petition so that it can be implemented. Features: Student loan repayment normally takes from 10 to 25 years. The repayment term for the new student loan program is 3 years for all candidates. The normal repayment term results in twice the original loan amount or more at pay off. The new program has all its participants paying only 25% on a 3 year term. The 75% is paid by the program at the end of the 3 years. Approximately 37 million Americans owe more than 1 trillion dollars in student loans today. The new program is targeting to enroll less than one half percent of the 37 million who owe student loans. Sign the petition to get on the program eligible list. This program will only accept applicants once every 3 years. We need as many potential candidates to sign in and support the program implementation so that the program can start helping those in need. How it works: The selected candidates for the program pay 25% of their Federal student loan balance in 36- monthly payments. The philanthropic program assistance pays 75% of the Federal student loan balance at the end of the 36 months. The entire Federal student loan debt is paid off in 3 years. Freedom from student loan debts has never been closer. Example: Total student loan debt= $20,000 New student loan- 25% = $5000 3- YR term in monthly payments= $5000\36= Approx $185\ month for 3 YRS. SIGN PETITION TO SUPPORT PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION TO START HELPING THOSE WHO NEED THE PROGRAM HELP.

We, the citizens of Louisiana need to provide health care /Hospice for those who do not have insurance. It is heartless to leave these people unprotected when they are sick and upon their death beds. We MUST develop more educational training for our children so that they can compete in the job markets of the world not merely to serve the tourism industry. We need to guarantee education from the Pre-School to College in quality settings for all in Louisiana. I am a retired New Orleans teacher and I know that Louisiana Education and Educators do not get the best conditions, materials, or pay but do a splendid job with almost nothing. Think what they could accomplish with more from the government. Provide for your citizens and allow us to be proud of our state and government again.

Same sex marriage should be allowed everywhere. Who are we to judge who gets married? Gays and lesbians don't judge who straight people marry so why care about who marries who? Shouldn't everyone be able to marry who they love?

The Electoral College takes away our rights as U.S. citizens to vote for our President. The President is not chosen directly by you, the voter, but instead, chosen indirectly by the Electoral College. The Electoral College is composed of "electors" who are chosen by each state based on their population to elect the President, and the truth is, NO ELECTOR IS FORCED TO VOTE ACCORDING TO THE STATE'S POPULAR VOTE!

This ad campaign must be recalled. http://bit.ly/10TWla3

To encourage the Jeep Chrysler company to stand behind their product and initiate a recall based on the defective door handles on the 2006-07 Jeep Commanders. See my YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfQ0oki7ZJY

Pigs are hard working animals. It is NOT justice to kill pigs for the meat, although you are allowed too. Would you like to be a pig? Just thank the world you are not a pig but don't you feel sorry for those high dreaming pigs, they could do something amazing with their life but instead we kill them for the meat, Don't you think we should at least honor the Pigs? Pigs kind of help us stay alive by giving us their life so we can live a happy one. Pigs deserve at least one free day without death. There is already a national pig day but the one that exsists is only celebrated in the Mid-West. Together we can start a petition and honor pigs for all they do for us, Every little signature counts!

I'm starting this petition because State of Washington has a law that a landlord can put you out for no reason at all and many are ending up homeless because their not given enough time to move.

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be the victim of child sexual abuse (CSA) by their 18th birthday. There are more than 42 million survivors of CSA in the United States. 3 million of these survivors are still children. These children could fill 46 national football stadiums 93 percent of the time sexual abuse is caused by a person who is supposed to protect you - a person in a position of trust or authority. In almost every case, the only witnesses to this crime are the perpetrator and the victim. Perpetrators often tell the child this is a secret and no one will believe them. Children rarely report abuse immediately. Often, they feel the abuse was their fault. In these cases, delayed disclosure is the norm. Most victims never tell anyone until several years after the abuse, if they ever tell at all. The 4 states that passed this law already are IN IL MO MAINE

A student was denied admittance to Trident Technical College because he was undocumented. Trident stated that our state Immigration law disallowed his admittance, but Homeland Security has ruled these Dreamers are lawfully present and therefore our state law does not apply to these young people. It is important to clarify this legally to all our schools and allow these students in.

Law makers in Washington want to put marijuana retail stores in off the wall zoned areas as if they were selling a disease or prostitution. Marijuana should be treated as a commodity not some rare infectious disease. Make law makers respect marijuana smokers and their retail establishments.