India has become completely unsafe for women due to a rape epidemic. The women are being gang-raped and assaulted at an alarmingly high rate, and the perpetrators are walking freely. The police do not take action and the women have nowhere to go.

Barney Frank has done an outstanding job representing Massachusetts in Congress. He is not interested in running for the rest of John Kerry’s term in the Senate. Because he knows how Washington works and can hit the ground running, he’s the logical choice for Governor Patrick to appoint to this interim position. Let’s let Governor Patrick know how we feel.

There is no legislation on the books for any state except California or federal that requires health insurance companies to disclose their denial rates. Thirty percent of all health claims submitted in California are denied, imagine the nationwide ramifications. I deal with this every day in my business and make the health insurance companies pay the way they should not the way they want to.

For too long We the People have been the bargaining chip for "Off the Cliff" negotiations. Certain members of Congress are demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Entitlements working people have paid into all their working lives. There is little doubt that the most lucrative government entitlements per individual are those afforded to Members of Congress. If Congress insists on putting the hard earned entitlements of America's working people on the negotiating table then they should, in all fairness, put their own entitlements on the table as well. We demand cuts in holiday leave, medical benefits, salary, sick leave and retirement benefits for all members of Congress.

States should not be allowed to redistrict counties, or buroughs to avoid the will of the populace. The Republicans have been re-arranging districts in states to do this for a number of years, and it must stop.

Fine the manufacturers of weapons for each bullet retrieved from a gun used as a crime weapon. Those who profit from gun sales should be held accountable. Penalties should be high enough to force the gun industry to regulate sales of weapons and should offset the legal, medical, and penal costs of gun violence in this country.

How many times could a popular vote have made or broken an election? What would happen if third party candidates were unhindered by battleground states, electoral colleges, and corporate money? How different would our country be if the people could pick a candidate closer to their values and beliefs, without fear that the "other guy" would win? What would it mean? It would mean the American way our early founding fathers and mothers initially intended at the birth of our nation some 230 years ago.

With America mere days away from the financial crisis termed the "fiscal cliff" which would cause the widespread financial burdens for all Americans and particular hardship for many of the most vulnerable including loss of long-term unemployment pay, increased payroll taxes, increased income taxes, and the jeopardizing once again of the US credit rating, it appears appropriate for Americans to shift the consequences for that obstructionism to those responsible: the Federal Legislators, including John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and all House and Senate legislators of both parties.

My petition is about protecting people in our schools.

We all have jobs to do and your job is to come to some resolution to avoid the "fiscal cliff." If you can't come to an agreement by year's end, stick to the task and continue on until you do. But, DO NOT leave your offices or the Capitol building until a deal is done. It is that simple. No social engagements, no trips home or to the district. Perhaps this will encourage those who do not understand the importance of compromise to move forward. If not, perhaps living in close proximity to one another over an extended period of time will help to convey the message of urgency that has not been heeded to date. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't leave the Capitol until you have reached a budget agreement.

This country will stay the same way until We The People decide that we have to limit the terms that House and Senate members can serve. Today, Big Brother, is the House and Senators who are "Life Long Politicians" and who know every PAC member by first name and their family members, etc. They don't care about ANYTHING but getting re-elected. I don't care what party they call themselves, they are the problem, not the answer. Have them serve the Country for up to 8 years (if they can get re-elected) and then have them go back and get a "real job". These people who serve 10, 20 or 30 years are the problem. They don't care about anything except re-election. They refuse to compromise on anything except what their party tells them and they don't care about the needs of the Country. Is that attitude being any help to the Nation? NO! We should start a new party called the "Red, White and Blue Party" who's ONLY platform is to limit the amount of time a person can serve in the House or Senate. Why is the President able to only serve 2 terms and the House and Senate can stay forever (if they live that long). We also have to cut the benefits that House and Senate members get. They voted these benefits to themselves, We The People didn't give it to them. They should get SSI instead of all of their political "retirement" benefits. They should get health care that you and I get, not "HEALTH CARE FOR SENATE OR HOUSE" members ONLY! And the extra benefits they get when they leave office should go too. I also think we have to get rid of the Supreme Court Justices who are able to serve until they die. I understand why they did that but that has to stop. The Highest Court just ruled that ANYONE; any company, PAC or whatever can contribute any amount of money they want toward any person, party or topic they want. That totally takes out anyone who is NOT a member of the two biggest parties. So that limits who can win any election. The High Court just sold out America in favor of Big Business and the PAC's. They must go. Let's go "Red, White and Blue". We The People will will win in the end!

It would be nice to have openly armed citizens with legal permits on the streets to counteract the illegally armed criminal crazies who are running around in our society freely killing anyone nearby simply because there aren't any cops around to stop them. If there were more law abiding armed citizens on the streets then they could stop the crazies cold and save a lot of innocent lives.