I am tired of hearing about the monetary and other benefits that are allotted to our law maker's and policy maker's - all of congress, governors, legislator's - every politician while the rest of us go without. I have no pension, I have no health insuraNCE. I have worked since I was 11 years old, starting out babysitting - and sometimes working three jobs to survive. These people got us into this economic mess - its time they sacrificed something. Just like every other American who has worked an honest job and then retires with barely a scrap of what they paid into Social Security - they should be getting the same.

People should be concerned because equal rights is an issue that affects all of us as Americans. It affects me because my partner and I have been together for 33 years and just recently has the right to be married been granted to us in New York state but I think that we should be recognized as a married couple and have the same federal rights in every state in the Union.

This may concern seniors the most but it should concern everyone. Banks make 6-8% on loans; we get .01% on our savings. The government encourages us to save to supplement Social Security but an average $8 a month isn't enough to buy dog food. I am most definitely personally affected by this absurd rate. I was a well paid executive before I retired. My pension "disappeared" and all I have left is some savings, These rates have forced me to live below the poverty level.

Congress aproval rating is 9 and thats not based on a 10, that's 9% out of 100%. The average yearly pay in Congress is $174,000. The Median wealth of all members in Congress is $911,510. The average salary in the US is $47,000 and they will tax us more. You see the reason they won't raise taxes on the wealthy (just pay what we pay) Is because they will be affected. Essentially if they did not receive pay or lobbyist monies they in turn will less likely to tthink of themselves. A seat in Congress should not be your only job. Especially for someone who goes to work half the time and doesn't produce anything.

We are all affected by so called career Cogres people

Let's follow Roosevelt's policies after the Great Depression. We need to get the economy moving again, just like he did.

Yes my voting rights are invalidated by "bought" candidates

The Senate has passed an extension of the middle class tax cuts, but the GOP controlled House has refused to allow a vote on the measure. If there is no vote prior to Dec 31, then taxes for all will go back up. The President has asked the House to take up the Senate bill and indicated he would sign it. Minority Leader Pelosi has initiated a discharge petition that requires 218 signatures to force a vote--that means that all Democrats and 25 Republicans need to sign this discharge petition before a vote can take place.

The Senate has passed an extension of the middle class tax cuts, but the GOP controlled House has refused to allow a vote on the measure. If there is no vote prior to Dec 31, then taxes for all will go back up. The President has asked the House to take up the Senate bill and indicated he would sign it. Minority Leader Pelosi has initiated a discharge petition that requires 218 signatures to force a vote--that means that all Democrats and 25 Republicans need to sign this discharge petition before a vote can take place. That's why I created a petition to Rep. Tom Reed (NY29).

Sustainable food is food that is healthy for consumers and animals, does not harm the environment, is humane for workers, respects animals, provides a fair wage to the farmer, and supports and enhances rural communities. You are what you eat, and we believe that if given the option, Emerson College students will prefer food grown locally, organically, and that is sustainable.

My son is under 50 and it seems to make a huge difference in whether he will get care in order to walk again; it doesn't make sense when this is the time in his life that he needs to raise his young kids and give them a good life, providing for them and coaching them with basketball, taking them fishing and the like, he needs to stop being ignored by the system.

As Eliot Spitzer says, this idea is supported by a wide range of economists, including Nobel laureate James Tobin, as well as advocates, including Ralph Nader in the Washington Post [4] this weekend, and elected officials: a tax on financial transactions. It will give us gobs of revenue. It will fall on a sector that has generated enormous and unwarranted profits for a very few, who at the same time have benefited from huge bailouts and regulatory help and largely escaped any responsibility for their central role in creating the financial cataclysm that we are still struggling with. And as Spitzer says, there is an added benefit here: Trading in the equity and debt markets has gone wild over the past few years. High-speed trading and speculation have overtaken the economically legitimate reasons for our desire to have highly liquid markets: the capacity to raise capital and then allocate it efficiently among sectors and companies. The trading that has emerged over the past few years is not serving that purpose—it is a casino enterprise driven by hidden pools and computer algorithms that do not seek to hold capital for longer than an instant. To the extent that a financial-transfer tax drove some of those trading practices out of the marketplace, that would be another good outcome.