Wisconsin Act 10 essentially eliminates collective bargaining for general public employees, but allows public safety employees to be exempt. The lack of the right to bargain does not preclude the existance of a right to be treated evanhandedly as employees. The employer cannot have it both ways. When corporations are deemed to be people for the purpose of campaign contributions (US Supremem Court Citizens United case), unions should be deemed to be people too. It should be a constitutional right to assemble into a union and be able to bargain with your employer, public OR private. .

The war on drugs ruins the lives of millions of nonviolent drug offenders every day. It disproportionately affects lower income and minority communities, stigmatizes drug users as criminals, ruins their employment chances upon reentering society and forces the cost of the system to maintain these people on the rest of society.

Senate Majority Leader of Pennsylvania, Dominic Pileggi, is proposing to change the state's electoral college system, so that it would give a clear advantage to Republicans.

We are all affected by the policy of fighting two wars on a "credit card" while the richest 2% not only profited from the war in many cases, but also didn't have to pay their fair share of taxes on that income.

Sexual misconduct and rape perpetrated by student athletes on the campuses of NCAA member Universities is out of control. After the decades of cover up at Penn State, and this latest incident swept under the rug by Notre Dame which led to the suicide of a student, it's long past the point where the NCAA must take action. One would think they'd have learned to be proactive after Penn State, but obviously they haven't.

Congress faces a fiscal choice—not a "cliff"—about whether to end tax cuts for the rich or cut vital programs and delay tax extensions for working and middle class people. The GOP is holding us hostage again, and we could slide back into a recession if they win. We will deliver these petitions to Congressman Mike Pompeo on Dec 10 as part of the national day of action on the fiscal showdown.

about a new energy patent. I'm affected by the issue.

Everyone is affected by the lack of leadership and not caring about the plight of the middle class. We need the people we vote into office to represent us not big business or Wall St.

A vote for or a signature on the Right to Work legislation in Michigan is a vote against not just the unions, but all middle and lower income workers, and against democracy as we know it in the United States. I have lived in countries without the worker rights we did possess. I know what an impoverished and exploited working class looks like. I know that workers in right to work states make significantly less than workers in other states. I know that workers in right to work states have 53% more worker related injuries than workers in other states. It sickens me to see you, the Governor of Michigan, dismantle worker rights in Michigan.

All U.S. citizens need to unite to prevent the further erosion of our Democratic form of government by the many negative factions in the current Republican party. The current Republican party has dissolved into a mean spirited mob bully guided by ideas and ideals more than half a century old. Unfortunately, the Republican party CHOOSES not to listen to the will of the people even after a national election. Sadly, the Republican Party must be seriously wounded before it will listen and again become a useful member of our government.

The fiscal cliff

There have been comments that the White House or Congress has suggested and some endorsement for a lifetime of secret service body guard for ex Presidents and their spouses. JUST SAY NO. The current 10 years post service is enough. Ex Presidents and their spouses (of our modern times) are multi millionaires and do not need permanent Taxpayer funding.