make the goverment pay back all the social security money it borrowed out of funding for foriegn countries.

We are triing to get people to commit to making a "list of grievances" that will be handed to representives in DC on the 4th of July

Remember the days when we all knew who in the Senate was filibustering a bill to prevent or at least delay a vote? Senators had to stand in the well and speak until 60 other Senators had heard enough and voted to end the filibuster and vote. We citizens knew who was conducting the filibuster and could contact our own Senators to agree or disagree. Those were the good old days! Last sessions, a Senator needed only to sign a statement of intent to filibuster - a statement kept secret from the public - to prevent a bill, or a proposal, or even a nomination, from coming before the Senate for discussion and vote. We citizens were kept completely in the dark. No wonder we have so many vacant judicial positions, and have almost no information about our Senate. Let's return to the classic filibuster! We the people want and need to know what's going on in the Senate.

While most Americans weren't paying attention, the GOP has quietly been power grabbing by redrawing U.S. Congressional districts to favor Republicans into perpetuity, in a number of consequential states with Republican Governors and Republican led State Legislatures working hand in hand to manipulate and destroy our democracy. In the 2012 election Democrats running in the U.S. House of Representatives won 540,000 more votes than their Republican counter-parts did. Yet due to the crafty gerrymandering of electoral districts in states like Texas and Pennsylvania--we end up with the Republicans not only controlling the House and holding our entire economy hostage with threats of defaulting on the debt. Drunk with power and with the confidence that these manipulated districts will not be challenged--they are constantly holding your economic future and my economic future hostage. My forefathers worked hard to help create democracy in the United States of America. My father and several of my grandfathers fought hard in America's wars for the big idea that we have had that our Congress men and women and Senators are to be elected by a majority of voting Americans. The Republican Party has gone too far now. It is time for ALL OF US to call this out and demand common sense geometrical and geographical standards and make Federal Law for redrawing the most bizarre and oddly shaped U.S. Congressional Districts and never again allow one political party, set themselves up for permanant domination through blatent, convoluted, oddly shaped, gerrymandering.

Kelly Ayotte voted against sending aid to hurricane Sandy victims. We cannot tolerate this lie that we need austerity at the expense of disaster relief. Again it is untrue that we can't afford to extend relief to the thousands affected by this disaster. It is her job as a senator to fight for those in need. Hold her personally responsible for this kind of savage disregard for those who have been affected by something so devastating as Hurricane Sandy.

Times are changing, with terrorists everywhere "wanted dead or alive" is once again reality.

This petition is about having a more honest and transparent monetary system. This petition is about virtually eliminating usury, interest on money. The State of Massachusetts, instead of borrowing money from private banks, at say 4-5% interest, which it currently does, the State of Massachusetts can establish it's own bank, The Bank of Massachusetts and SAVE approximately $2 Billion in debt servicing fees per year! This would reduce the need for the continual increase of our income taxes and rejuvenate the current curtailed services by increased spending. We need more money in circulation that is NOT based on usurious debt!

Holding Senator Marco Rubio responsible for voting no for Hurricaine Relief benefits.

The petition is designed to raise awareness that politicians can't have it both ways. Most of the senior members in both legislative branches have been in Congress for multiple terms - and are therefore (a large) part of the serious problems our country is facing. Ironically they offer themselves as solving the very problems they are both (Democrats and Republicans) responsible for creating.

The average student loan is $30,000. College tuition at both public and private universities has been escalating way beyond inflation. High tuition is one of the main causes for the widening gap between rich and poor. Faculty will be better off with affordable tuition rather than pricing it out of the reach of the middle class. The tuition income should be directed mostly at education rather than adminitration. The financial stability of many colleges and universities is threatened by out of reach tuition and the alternative of free online courses. Ensuring affordable tuition is both the financial and moral answer.

In a world that has increasingly limited resources, corporations cannot be counted on to solve these problems. Scarcity and problems that need patchwork, while financially lucrative, cause more social, environmental, and economic problems in the long run. In order for problems to be solved (of which all problems are technical in nature, and by definition are likely to have an effective solution) the institutions that benefit financially from these problems or would be forced out of business because of the solving of the problems shall not be allowed to exercise any protest once a successful, positive peer review has been established.

This petition addresses Representative Bachmann's apparent disdain for President Obama's decision to sign automatic pay raises for federal employees.