My adult son called me last night. His job has been out-sourced to India. However, he has a temporary freelance job in down town Chicago. He walks home every evening. But last evening he was especially disturbed at the number of homeless young adults that he saw. Many had backpacks or a piece of luggage and were huddled in doorways with no place to sleep. Now unemployed and unable to keep up their rent or mortgage payments they are on their own in the now freezing Chicago elements. There are thousands of other “more seasoned” homeless people who have been without work for much longer who are now sleeping in boxes on mattresses under the via ducts. At the END OF DECEMBER the unemployment extensions end unless there is legislation passed. This is the United States of America! Do we not take care of our own people who need our help? Is it the vulnerable: the unemployed, the poor, the mentally ill, and the children who are always the first to get cut from fiscal consideration when there is a “cliff?” This is URGENT! Please give this action priority during December.

Did you know that just being poor does not make you eligible for Medicaid in Utah? To qualify for Medicaid, an adult in Utah must earn less than $8,000 a year and have dependent children or earn less than $15,000 and be permanently disabled. Just being poor is not enough. No wonder nearly 380,000 uninsured Utahns are at risk at losing their health, their job, their personal savings, and their home if they get hurt or sick and can’t pay out-of-control medical bills. The good news is that Utah can make a positive change. Right now, for a minimal state investment, Governor Herbert and the Utah state legislature have the opportunity to make Utah's Medicaid program whole, and provide health care coverage to thousands of your neighbors, friends, and families.

A base of our government's constitution is, The Right to Life. No matter what one's religious belief, the fact is that the government funding abortions could open up many more freedoms being taken away from our citizens. The opposing side's petition for 3,000 names is nearly filled at almost 2,800 signatures. Please act fast.

Tell Congress to pass a law that, groups listed as hate groups should not be allowed a 501c3 charity status. Ministers like scott lively are spreading their message of "hate the Gays" throughout the world. Uganda is about to pass a bill that will put Gay men and Women to death.

I have been personally affected;. I have been barred from refinancing my home since 2009 because I refinanced before May of 2009. Freddie Mac rules, with no explanation of why, will not allow me to refinance. If I and others were allowed to do so, we could reduce mortgage interest rates on existing loans and save thousands of dollars per year. In my case, I would save about $5000 per year. I have already done a petition you can view here by copying and pasting thiks link in your address bar: http://wh.gov/IjfU

The Secretaries of State of several states, Florida and Ohio to name two, actively participated in a GOP organized conspiracy to create roadblocks for Democratic voters within their states for the purpose of discouraging their participation in the election process.

In July, Washington State’s community college system imposed a year-long 3% salary reduction on all classified employees. Since then, WPEA – one of the unions representing classified state employees - has secured a commitment from several colleges to “mitigate” the salary reduction by offering overtime opportunities. To date, Cascadia has NOT agreed to mitigate, ignoring the financial hardship being imposed on the lowest paid employees in our community college system. Please sign this petition to show your support for Cascadia’s classified staff in seeking mitigation of the 3% salary reduction.

The Nebraska Legislature removed Bellevue from Nebraska's Second Congressional District and put Nebraska's oldest community into the First Congressional District. The Republican majority in the state legislature did this to shore up the republicans' chances in the Second Congressional District. Bellevue, which is democratically heavy, was replaced in the Second District by western Sarpy County, which is very republican. This ensured a victory by Lee Terry.

The Bush tax cuts were designed by the wealthy for the wealthy. When Bill Clinton was president everyone did just fine without these tax cuts. There were 23 million jobs created under Bill Clinton in an expanding economy with government budget surpluses becoming the new routine. It's time we return to those years by allowing the Bush tax cuts to just expire.

The person most responsible now to get a deal before the end of the year is Speaker John Boehner. He must be informed that the people of the United States have spoken clearly and we want him to compromise and raise the tax rates to 39% on people earning in excess of $250,000.00.

I am the CEO of Aesop Institute, an NGO, that has posted extensive information about both of these little recognized dangers to all of us. The website is: www.aesopinstitute.org These Time Bombs are little recognized threats to our National Security. Preventing the second one, a solar superstorm, can accelerate replacement of fossil fuels with decentralized, renewable energy and boost the economy, creating jobs.

Guidelines set by subsidized childcare does not support single parents employed with one source of income. With high cost childcare and home cost expenses (in which the state does not deduct from gross income), it is unfortunate that those whom need this assistance, most, can not obtain it. If something is not done about this, there will be plenty of single parents out of work and on welfare.