Governor Patrick has proposed a bold plan to make taxes more progressive and to raise money to pay for roads, bridges, mass transit and education. The legislature has taken his proposal under advisement and will probably pare it down. The gas tax has not been raised since 1991. It's time for drivers to pay their way.

I work @ for a well known company that uses a point system 4 sick days and we don't get paid for it instead they make us use our vacation so by ears end you are stuck w/ not being able to take off w/ dire consequence's

My granddauther teaches 4th graders who are ill-equipped by prior education, lack of teaching supplies and assistance from the school itself. Every year they keep cutting back teachers/equipment and this should be stopped.

We the signed, want the trapping of our wildlife banned in our country; as it is in all other civilized nations. A trapped animal is a terrified animal in unimaginable agony, exposed to predators and the elements, dehydration, starvation, and extreme psychological distress in separation from their young--finally meeting a brutal end.

Teachers in North Carolina need the pay that was promised to them when they were hired.

Family caregivers in Georgia should be allowed to receive Medicaid and State reimbursement funds for their work.

The legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is considering multiple bills that would alter how Electoral College votes are distributed to Presidential Candidates. The people of the Commonwealth deserve to have their vote preserved by the current way votes are distributed.

San Francisco has a unique treasure - an 80-acre cloud forest only 1000 feet above sea level, in the heart of the city. Now the public university, University of California, San Francisco - one of the world's leading medical schools - plans to destroy 30,000 trees and the whole cloud forest ecosystem. [UPDATE 2017: UCSF has issued another Plan in which it revises its estimate for the number of trees in the forest from around 45,000 to... around 13,000. But it still plans to cut down over half of them, around 6-7,000 trees. See this link: https://sutroforest.com/2017/02/23/how-many-trees-in-sutro-forest-and-what-will-be-left/]

This petition is for the protection of or nations future, the youth. Since Columbine shooting in 2001 our government had failed miserably to deter in school shootings. Now that the Sandy Hook massacre has occur states are taking law enforcement off the streets and into the schools, leaving everything else vulnerable to attacks. What's worse is that police are trained to arrest. Now students are being charged with felonies for fighting in school which often happens. What I am proposing is that we use privatized armed security in schools as well as movie theaters as a deterrent to armed shooters. The shooters only attack places where firearms are not allowed and frankly president Obama you cannot take every him off of the street.

I am one of a number of former Federal Investigators and Federal Judges that have made whistle blower allegations or alleged Prohibited Personnel violations against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's management and executive management. The long list of allegations includes targeting companies, accepting bribes, harassment, retaliation, destroying federal records in an attempt to obstruct justice, Prohibited Personnel Violations, the passing over qualified veterans for hiring in violation of federal law, collusion with the union to obstruct and cover-up whistle blower allegations. For those who might think that this is a joke or not a mattter which concerns them, I am attaching links to recent cases which illustrate the fabrication of evidence and target which the Commission has committed against private employers, complaints or some of its employees and payments of tax dollars which are being made for these wrongful lawsuits. I have also attached a copy of my last contact with the EEOC's office of Inspector General --in it he refuses to conduct an investigation of criminal conduct on the part of Executive Level Employees after two years of complaints in their regard. http://blog.personnelconcepts.com/2012/08/eeoc-loses-frivolous-lawsuit-pay-140k-attorneys-fees/ http://blog.personnelconcepts.com/2012/06/firm-turns-tables-eeoc-wins-750k-judgment-wrongful-lawsuit/ http://wiley-law.com/?p=526 http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2012/07/30/10-55866.pdf http://ricohenry7.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/eeoc-chair-jacqueline-berrien-letter-from-naacp-on-her-performance/ http://ricohenry7.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/us-attorney-seals-lawsuit-to-protect-fraud-at-eeoc/ Commissioners, How is this at all fair...the Inspector General of the EEOC maintains that if there were criminal violations within the agency by its highest ranking officials and even if it is found that an employee was wrongly dismissed in retaliation for being a whitsle blower...he refuses to pursue the matter...he complains that to pursue or investigate the matter would have to be weighed against "the office's investment of resources". The whitlsle blower has hounded the agency for two years to investigate the matter and was put off until several people who were involved were allowed to retire and now is being told that it might be difficult to investigate since many of those involved have retired. I have provided his office with transcripts of the officials acknowledging the the criminal behavior under sworn oath. How much investment would it take to read the documents and questions the officials involved. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: INSPECTOR GENERAL To: XXXXXXXX Sent: Fri, February 1, 2013 8:21:22 AM Subject: Re: FOIA & Inspector General's Request - Dr. Brian K. Mitchell Mr. Mitchell, I have completed a review of your complaint. I completely understand your complaint and can empathize with your situation. However, you are wrong to assume there is an investigation of your complaint. That decision has not been made! The issue does fall under the authority of the EEOC Office of Inspector General. Before we conduct any investigation we must weigh our investment of resources against the most likely outcome of any investigation. Other issues to consider is the time lapse in your complaint and the fact that some of those people named in your complaint no longer work for the Agency. Your allegation that the agency has destroyed federal records, as it relates to your application for a position with the Agency and the certification list associated with that application, is clearly stated in your complaint. At this time, I see no point in conducting an interview with you. You must also understand, that no matter if we conduct an investigation or not, nothing can be done to resolve your dissatisfaction with the Agency or to restore you to a position within the Agency. I assure you all consideration is being given to your complaint. Thank you for contacting the Office of Inspector General.

We the people of america-usa are letting are usa congress-house-senate that no members of are usa congress has any rights to expect a pay raise increase or any cost of living increase , while there are people living in america-usa who are living at or below poverty wages and incomes in america-usa.

This Bill is being delivered to Congress and incorporates the Public Interest by empowering Congress to: - declare War on Inflation