Press reports say President Obama will soon nominate a new Treasury Secretary . Press speculation has centered on candidates likely to support the Wall Street agenda of cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits and other domestic spending rather than government policies to create jobs. We want President Obama to nominate Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who opposes austerity and wants the government to focus on creating jobs.

America is doomed to marginal or negative social progress as long as we put up with our 18th century political system. We do NOT need others to vote for us on national issues of major importance. Today's technology makes dependence on this antiquated approach really stupid

While the congress is busy trying to cut the social safty net to, in their word cut the deficit, They are too well paid and the benefits extremely generous, I feel we the people who they are supposedly there to work for us seem to have forgotten that, very little has been done for at least the last 3 years except to get the USA downgraded and create a hostile non-working congress.

Can congress be trusted, any longer, to represent their country without oversight? Threatening, for a second time, to refuse to raise the debt ceiling to enable payment of bills they, themselves, have incurred - meaning more debt for each of their constituents, is an outrage. Working fewer and fewer days when the country has so many problems is intolerable. Citizens must be protected.

With the latest violent acts that have happened, the person or persons involved ignored all gun laws, restricted areas for guns, etc..The bad people with always find a way to get the guns. Instead of focusing on more gun controls, focus on the real problem, mental health of these people doing the attacks. Instead of streamlining these people, people need to not be afraid of getting them they help they need, medication or making sure they take their medications or hospitalization, if necessary is done. Also make provisions for extra security at schools. Stop penalizing the honest people, let us be able to properly defend ourselves!

IF YOU EAT, THIS ISSUE CONCERNS YOU. The basics: After ocean dumping of sewage sludge was banned, spreading it on the land became the next cheapest option. Regulations were drawn up by EPA, arm and arm with municipalities (the producers) who want to save money, and spreaders (corporations) who make huge profits on waste disposal. The sewage sludge name was changed to “biosolids” and the product (toxic waste) is now given to landowners as free “fertilizer”. Full disclosure of the sludge contents is not required and indeed is impossible to ascertain. Only 10 components are regulated, while there are close to 100,000 possible known and secret (proprietary) chemicals that could be present and interacting. As well, sludge contains pathogens, antibiotics and other medications including endocrine disrupters, slaughter house and morgue wastes, and everything else that goes down the drain. All these pollutants are concentrated in the sludge as the waste water treatment plant purifies the water so it can legally re-enter the water system. The landowner is told about the nitrogen content in the sludge and about the amount of money that can be saved on fertilizer, while the risks to human health and that of the environment are ignored. These pollutants and toxins, once applied to agricultural land, become absorbed into the food chain. Land applied sewage sludge has sickened people, killed livestock, polluted water, and degraded healthy soil. Many countries, including Japan and Switzerland, now ban the practice. Sewage sludge biosolids do not belong on the land where we grow our food or graze our animals.

This petition is to stop harassment of parents from the other parent that dont pay their child support on social medias. My ex is on probabtion for back child support. He is harassing me using this site by posting a petition on facebook and who knows what other social networks. He is claiming he has over paid the child support by 25 grand and I should have to pay him back every penny. He claims the attorney general office did not give him credit for the 4000 he made in payments in Hopkins county back in 95 and 96. According to the District Clerk I spoke to the other day and the attorney general payment records, if my ex would not have gotten that credit in the investigavtive phase of the attorney general investigation, he would have started this case negative 5000 instead of negative 1000. The attorney generals office started receiving payments on 5/96. Since then he has never made all his payments and there is 5 years where he only made 1 or 3 payments a year. This petition is to stop the harassment for parents that receive the support. I had to file harassment charges to get the phone harassment to stop against him and his wife. Now lets sign this petition to stop the social media harassment and yes they do use my name on their comments of their posts on their petition titlled child support laws arent fair...

The oil companies,who make almost infinite profits,do not now need taxpayer subsidies. That money should be going back to the taxpayers!!!

The middle class whose budgets are stressed to the max will pay more in taxes but $76 BILLION tax credit for GE, Walmart, Starbucks, GM and many others. We can't afford Social Security or Medicare, but we can afford this. Talk about stomping on the face of the American people, unbelievable.

This right should be satisfied after time served for the crime has been satisfied. It denies many citiizens who were entangled in the law at an early age and victimizes them repeatedly with very little hope for being renstated to society with the privilege of participating in this honored civic process which can empower people to evolve into productive citizens.My son and numerous other young people have experienced this has experienced this and would like to see their rights restored!

It is a fact that the US drug policy, The war on drugs IS destroying the Middle-Class Communities using FREE PRISON LABOR and the subsequent mass incarceration of Americans. These incarcerations are comparable to per-Civil War slavery of Americans. The hierarchies of racial and poor injustice have shifted but not wholly improved. "This whole thing of...this 'War on Drugs,' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the middle class and the male population. LET US FIX THE INJUSTICE!

With the satisfaction level of the Congres at an all time low of 12 % and seemingly nothing getting done its time to get the rascals out of there and replace them with representatives who will be patriots and make the hard decisions and do what is best for our country and not for politics.