Ata 78 years old, a disabled Korean Waar Veteran, who has worked since he was 9 years old. I am appalled at our elected representatives for all their posturing and hatred, greed and hypocrisy. They all make me sick. Thay have had more then a year to settle this mess that THEY created, ON purpose. Their hatred of a black president is so obvious. They are even willing to sink our economy and put me and a couple million others OUT of work just for thier own selfish wants. By the way, I am white. It is sickening. Now I hear they are going to give themselves a pay raise. OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!! Four years ago you took every other week off rather than stay in Washington and do the work we sent you there to do. This past year you have had more time off than you spent doing the peoples business. You do not seem to get that you are killing us out here in "We The People" land. If you deliberatly let this happen, you should never get a pay raise again EVER!! How can you dare give yourselves more money when you have taken most of ours away from us??? If you do not pass the fiscal bill, tax cuts, extension of unemployment benefits, and leave our social security alone, you deserve NOTHING! No work, NO pay. You have blown the money, not us. Accept respnsibility for your own stupidity instead of taking it out of our pockets. Wake up congress. We are wise to you. You are not getting the message. Maybe a jolt to your check, like you have given us, might makae a difference, but I doubt it. You are pathetic. Look at the log in your own eye, before looking at the splinter in mine. Leave our SS alone.

Do not cut my Social Security. I have been paying into it my entire working life. If it has been a Ponzie Scheme, then the law should deal with that, including me suing the government for the full recovery of the money I have been forced to pay plus interest and lots of people going to the Federal Penitentiary. If the government has money to provide subsidies to businesses making record profits and money to create several new billionaires in the Middle East, then it has enough money to refrain from robbing me.

The City Of Waltham should have an official place to house stray and feral cats during the vetting and adoption process.

The City Council in the small Texas Hill Country town of Bulverde, insists upon invocations that begin their monthly meetings with blatantly sectarian prayer. They feel fully entitled, as they are "the majority". I, on the other hand, believe what Thomas Jefferson explains, that "it is the responsibility of the majority to ensure that the rights of the minority are represented." Out of realization that I have no voice, and I certainly have no representation, I now make it a point to personally attend each meeting; stand up when called; and (nervously) present the council with my words that fit into the 3-minute Public Comments format afforded citizens. This public, government entity fails to grasp that it is not in compliance with our Constitution, and must somehow be reproached. The lone, individual citizen, grassroots approach is the only way I know.

Our food supply is under assault by corporations that are aggressively patenting seeds. Food is a basic human need. Corporate ownership of such a basic human need is a path to food dominance and control. Do you want permission to eat when you're hungry? Would you like to be sued for having a home garden? No? Then sign today to force the patent office to get rid of such patents and make seed patenting illegal.

Spending cuts are tax increases through the back door, and hurt those who can least afford them.

The way to stop gun violence and reign in the NRA is to go after corporate interests. Therefore, I say refuse to shop at any store that sells guns. If you don't buy other stuff at Wal-Mart because they also sell guns, they will stop selling guns.

Regardless of political persuasion, polls have shown that the majority of Americans want our politicians to compromise and find ways to cut our deficit, raise the debt ceiling, ensure that entitlement programs are viable through effective changes and management, and get our country back on its feet economically. We need these things without months of wrangling, brinksmanship, and stalling at the cost of our national credit rating, the terrible effects on the middle class and the poor, and the across the board cuts and tax increases that were so egregiously agreed upon months ago. Unless we stand up and demand that Washington get things done, they won't, and we will pay.

Medical Marijuana is proven already as the best medicine for human consumption. Helps cure forms of cancer,severe pain, and kids with autism tend not to hurt themselves as much. How about our military, they suffer through back pains, surgery and missing body parts! Oh, but our government give these people pills that contain poison to the body, and cause mass side effects? Medical Marijuana can help us live and help our planet grow!

Two years ago, the Obama Administration compromised again and again with the Republicans, but the Republicans refuse to arrive at a workable funding solution to avoid the "fiscal cliff". Republicans claim that $250,000/year is near poverty levels, yet they claim that the $8100/year that welfare recipients receive makes them wealthy.

Our country faces a dire economic meltdown, isn't it time to ask everybody, including the currently exempt religions, to pitch in and help bring down our debt? I'm sure that would make a noticible dent in our national debt w/o compromising our security or social net. Please join me in getting Congress & the President to pass a law requiring them to pay their fair share too.

Being discussed now is that we the people will have to sacrifice our SS and Medicare benefits while our lawmakers enjoy superior health and retirement benefits at our expense. Time to discuss cutting these expensive lifetime benefits given to all the lawmakers no matter how dishonorably they have served.