I am a single mother who is raising a son who has aspergers and autism spectrum. I am a parent who wants to work while he is in school. I cannot find any employment with flexible hours. My child who wants to be in an intergrated classroom setting, but couldn't. No one in the schools, churches, family, or public services are willing to work with him. Many parents and I are feeling discriminated. There are some situations that can be overwhelming for a single parent or two parent families. We are asking people in the community to get help our children and to save our children. Those people have been ignored. That's exactly what happened to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. I think about my son so much. I believe in the old saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". People are ignore that stategy. Just like what our former president, George W. Bush stated, "No child left behind".

The 1.5% pay raise given to Congress is a travesty. Members of Congress barely work half a week. Due to their entrenched ideological positions and intranigence, they accomplish nearly nothing for the nation. They do not deserve an increase in salaries.

Issuing stock options as a major part of management compensation has led to three decades of short-term management approaches focused on the daily value of those options. This has led, in no small part, to the economic distress America is currently in. Banning stock options as compensation would help return a management style focused on long term profitability through growth as opposed to the devastating cost cutting which is the main focus today.

I"m constantly experiencing the purchasing of more products that become useless by only few uses and end up in the waste can. The cities are increasing the sizes of the waste and the recyclable cans as a civic answer to this disastrous phenomena.

The last bastion of racism that is accepted is the Confederate Flag. The flag still flies in front of the South Carolina Capitol Building, and it must be taken down.

Job creation in every city in the U.S. - helps veterans, homeowners, and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.

There is a rock crushing/wood chipping facility that's planning on opening up shop right in the middle of our town of Ketchikan Alaska. The planning request has no provisions for the pollution that will be involved. No water treatment facility. No dust pollution plans. No noise pollution plans. (It's going to be near schools, a library, preschool, etc. They also want long term storage of their equipment and chemicals. It will be near a prime salmon spawning ground as well as one of the largest salmon hatcheries in the state. There was a deadline to comment, 12/31/12

Firearms are responsible for more bodily injury, and death, to innocent third -parties, than motor vehicles,. Yet all motor vehicles must have compulsory liability insurance -- but not so firearms. Therefore subject all firearms to the same types of mandatory insurance liability requirements -- as motor vehicles,

Walmart forced Mount Pleasant council to approve a Walmart grocery store by threatening legal action Mount Pleasant could not afford to fight. There are 5 grocery stores with in a mile. Now Milwaukee based Sentry is laying off 71 workers. Across the state, multinational corporations are using bulling tactics like this. We need to make our Representatives represent us against multinational corporations who override Municipality's decisions by threat of costly legal action.

A GSW's average cost is reported to be as high as $1,000,000. A gun owner cannot guarantee that his or her gun will not cause a accidental injury or be used in a crime. Therefore it seems that requiring liability insurance for these weapons is a reasonable expectation for responsible gun ownership. A higher liability requirement could be put on assault weapons.

Members of the United States Congress have utterly failed to do their job in protecting the welfare of this country. Their inability to resolve differences and be effective is shameful. They deserve a pay cut.

We need to enact term limits for everyone in Congress so we can make progress in our country. Having members without term limits hinders our growth and progress for all of the citizens of the United States of America,