Raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour.

The US Geological Service released in report in 2012 which found natural gas in the Hartford Shale of Western and Central MA. We must not allow environmentally damaging fracking in MA.

I have been reading how citizens have become frustrated with congress leaving on vacation and not settling issues before leaving. They should not be allowed payment, just like any other citizen that does not work. Also, they should not be allowed any type of retirement funding by the people, and should save as many Americans do when they retire. This also includes healthcare.

Higher education in the U.S. is being hijacked by vast amounts of cash flooding the campaign coffers of those who purport to represent us. Thanks to endless lobbying and limitless cash that has been showered upon members of Congress, including and especially House Speaker John Boehner, student loans have been stripped of all basic consumer protections. As long as our leaders in Washington continue to line their pockets with Sallie Mae's money, student loan borrowers will continue to get the shaft.

8th grade Social Studies: freeing the slaves. But what about those workers who are slaves in other countries because US business practices? Many fashion companies are producing overseas where people are treated like slaves. Computer Co. 14 hr. work days/6 day weeks Here, we pay high dollar for those items when workers should get better compensated.

We are all affected by the criminal activities of the banking industry. People are defrauded and they lose their retirement, their homes, and their hope for the future and faith in the entire system. When bankers act criminally they must be prosecuted for fraud, drug laundering and any other crime.

It's time to stop spending money to keep it illegal and tax it; Creating jobs and lowering national debt.

My petition is to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. Puerto Rico should become the 51st state because like Hawaii why not??

For Low-Income and Marginalized Entrepreneurs, getting financing via business loans is next to impossible. Few have the personal resources like savings to work from, and even fewer have the business connections to find private funding. What they DO HAVE are good business ideas, and lots of energy to make them work. If the Small Business Administration gave Government Grants to the poorest and most isolated of Entrepreneurs, we could CREATE JOBS WHERE THEY ARE MOST NEEDED. Grants would "even the playing field," and get jobs to the communities most in need.

Studies have proven THC kills tumors, reduces brain damage, protects the body from aging and more. Cannabis is a medicine safer than drinking beer and its time to stop hurting people. Despite the US government having a patent (US Patent 6630507 ) on cannabis as an anti-oxidant and neuroprotectant, openly admitting that it is a medicine, and despite a DEA ruling in the 80s that cannabis has tremendous potential as a medicine, their official policy has been to deny this and put people in jail for doing something better than the options out there which either do not work, or have such horrendous side-effects as to be hardly considered medicine in the first place. The reality is yes, addicts may need help, but happy people need freedom. The drug war is like racism, assuming all members of humanity that fall in a specific category are bad without exception and deserve punishment. Frankly, the war on drugs is just plain evil. Give people their medicine! There are cannabinoids present in breast milk, and those who have a deficiency of cannabinoids suffer from pain, mental illness, depression, hostility, and do not have a happy life. The endocannabinoid system is crucial to overcoming hundreds of diseases, all from one plant. Anyone who has lost a loved one due to medicine being illegal that they desperately need will tell you that to deny the hurt access to something proven to help them, something safer than anything on the market, is absurd. Cannabis is safer than beer. America constantly promotes the idea its "responsible" to relax with a mind-altering addictive drug, so why put people in prison for choosing a better option that helps them be good to their families and unwind from the stress of the day, let alone those needing it as the only medicine that not only works but often fully cures what is wrong!? If anything, cannabis makes ruling parties paranoid. It is time to leave the dark ages and treat compassion and reason as being more important than harming the innocent for the sake of appeasing pride.

We need a contests to name a CEO of the year. A company leader that does real good in the community or the Country and a prize in the form of a grant to be given to a favorite charity of that CEO. We need to make generosity and civic concern more popular. Greed is shameful and we need to make that more public as well.

Limit the Representives to only Two terms.