I just learned that the former Governor of PA, Ed Rendell, is the co-chair of a group of corporate leaders trying to cut my Social Security and Medicare, along with cutting Medicaid for low income women and children. Fix the Debt, a group funded by a billionaire with a council of CEO's, is spewing misinformation about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid so that these programs get cut instead of wealthy paying their fair share of taxes. I think it is wrong for any former elected official to stand alongside corporate leaders calling for earned benefits to cut, especially a Democrat. Gov. Rendell should leave Fix the Debt immediately, and commit zero cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. http://www.fixthedebt.org/who-we-are

Please end abusive treatment of animals at factory farms

Each town ought to have its own solar panels and wind turbines .

would like the fda to be held accountable for allowing genetically engineered food into our food chain & allowing it to be called natural & allowing big companies that support it , keep it hidden from the public, despite the unknown health risks & potential unwanted spreading.

Leting gays get marry.

open adoption records..adoptees are people with out a history

American subsidize corporations to the tune of $80billion annually. This would pay for 2 million new teachers. Walmart receives billions and doesn't pay their employees enough to live on. Just last week Walmart stopped offering insurance to new workers, blaming Obamacare. Their CEO earns more than 8k and hour, while Walmart workers don't make that much in one year.

Signing this petition is a promise or refusal to vote for any public official that agrees to sign or creates a "pledge" for others to sign. Signing pledges creates an infantile game that politicians are playing instead of voting their conscience or the way the people they represent would like them to vote. This has to stop so that compromise and negotiation can, once again, rule the way our politicians get things done.

This petition is to give the citizens of the US controll, as it really is in life. Our politicians today, act wrecklessly in reguards to our general well being, with no fear of consiquences. They inact and put into law their own wages, pensions and health care (FOR LIFE) as if they have really earned it. Meanwhile, they try and often do pass laws that have an adverce affect on the general population, and it does't affect them because they are immuned, due to their royal status, for life, while the citizens of this country bare the burden.

Our political leaders are playing with fire and our economic future due to their inability to collaborate and drive consensus for the benefit of the greatest and most successful economic and social experiment on Earth - The United States of America. I therefore propose a brand that we can all use to put us in the right collaborative framework and here it is: "USA; The Worlds Best Integrator of People and Ideas."

For as long as I can remember, there has been a National Tree Lighting during the holiday season in Washington DC. Year after year, I reserve hope that for once, the National Tree would actually look like a TREE and not some lit up mound with a star on top of it.

First Data Global Leasing corporation was introduced to me by my bank and has been nothing but a sickening headache since. They represented themselves as one company then when problems arose as a result of their actions, they are suddenly two separate entities that don't relate to one another. My contracts and financial information was sold to another company without my consent and I'm being harassed for payment on equipment I no longer have or was able to use by the company they sold my contract to! They are threatening to ruin my and my mother's credit. They have an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau although they had 295 complaints this year alone--699 in total! Many are considered resolved based on the word of First Data regardless of the satisfaction of the customer. Hundreds of thousands of small business owners are suffering as a result of their shady business practices. The customer service is so rude and robotic. Their only goal appears to be amassing wealth by bullying small businesses worldwide into paying thousands of dollars for a machine worth a couple of hundred. So who's really hurting the economy? Search them up for yourselves and you will find a trail of tears!