I feel very strongly that no animals should have antibiotics in their food supply because that will affect the health of human beings. This practice must be outlawed.

Recent flooding in New York City is just the tip of the iceberg. We need to do something about global warming now. If we were to spend $80 billion of the $800 billion U.S. defense budget on global warming imitativeness (tidal, wind, solar energy, conservation, new technologies) we would stimulate the economy, reduce disaster costs (NYC is $50 billion alone), and reduce national security threats. In addition, if the rest of the world followed our example, it would be a more peaceful place to live.

Last year, Mercy for Animals uncovered horrendous abuse of turkeys at a Butterball plant in Hoke County. They swore it would never happen again, but now, there are four more Butterball plants doing the same thing! Not trusting that Butterball would keep its word to enforce a "zero tolerance policy" on animal abuse, Mercy for Animals investigated plants this fall and discovered severe infractions in facilities in Sampson, Duplin, Onslow, and Lenoir counties. They have videos of turkeys with open festering wounds left untreated as well as broken bones. Workers are seen kicking and stomping the birds and throwing them around by their necks. This is a disgusting treatment of birds that is completely unnecessary. These are living, breathing creatures! Hoke county police have already arrested workers for animal cruelty, but Butterball needs to step up and make sure this never happens again. Can you imagine what effect it would have if we all decided to not buy their turkeys this Thanksgiving! Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/abc11_investigates&id=8885241

As we once again approach a fiscal cliff and our national debt is higher than ever before we need to control government spending. Although it is not the end all be all solution it is a small step in the right direction to allow the President to veto line items in budget bills to stop the practice of adding pet projects to important legislation knowing full well their pork barrel project will get funding due to the importance of the larger issue. Additionally the President needs the authority to eliminate unnecessary riders to legislation for the same reason.

On Quest Means Business, Warren Buffet suggested that the tax rate for the top 2% should be 50%. Nina Dos Santos remarked that the 50% tax rate for the wealthy in the UK. I think is is only fair that the top 2% in the U.S. should pay the same rates!

Term Limits for Congress to prevent gridlock and get fresh ideas to solve problems. Long term service in Congress has taken representation away from the people because they are more worried about re-election than solving problems and making the other party look bad. The same reasoning behind Presidential term limits needs to be applied to them.

My petition concerns companies that choose to sell products made in China (or other countries) rather than those made in the USA, thereby causing jobs in our country to be lost which adds to our economic nightmares.

It is ludicrous that the CEO’s and executives of corporations primarily funded by government contracts should be raking in million dollar salaries. The average American salary has been stagnant for years and insurance premiums for health care increase. Battelle Memorial Institute runs several National Labs and is dependent on government contracts. The salaries and compensation of Battelle’s 27 highest paid employees totaled over $21 million dollars in 2009, one man accumulating $1.7 million of compensation in a single year. A business that makes 70% or more of their revenue from government contracts needs a salary cap for CEO's and executives of no more than a total compensation of $250,000/year.

Ditch Mitch McConnell as KY Senator now!! He is a disgrace to all Kentuckians.

as a huge basball fan, allowing jeff loria to own a major league basball franchise destroys the integrity of the game and takes the people of the respectful city his club plays in for fools.

In the small town of Cabot, Pa., Dan Brown is the proud inventor of the Bionic Wrench, a product made solely in Pennsylvania. His goal from day one was to make his invention in America. This time last year, Brown's factory was buzzing, with his employees working overtime to fulfill holiday orders. With the help of Sears, Brown's company sold more than 200,000 wrenches at Christmas alone. "Last year was a great year," Brown said. "We got ourselves on a commercial and Sears had us in stores. We were going crazy." Brown says he agreed with Sears not to sell his bionic wrench to any other national chain such as Lowe's or Home Depot. Brown's company continued business this year but suddenly there was no deal from Sears for Christmas. Brown had three production lines working to fill orders last year. But this year, there's only one running and he has had to lay off 30 workers. "We were building at a forecast that Sears had given us, then they just cancelled it," Brown said. "We built so much ahead trying to avoid the overtime that we were going through in previous years that we got caught now." When Sears suddenly went quiet, Brown wondered what was going on. "We had an arrangement. Last year was our first test on TV and it went extremely well," Brown said. "They [Sears] kept delaying it and delaying it and we didn't know what was going on. They really wanted to get the Father's Day orders in but they didn't want to commit to Christmas, which is much larger than Father's Day. It just didn't make sense." Brown heard from a customer that there was now another wrench on the shelves at Sears with what appeared to be a similar mechanism. But this one, made in China, is sold under the Sears brand, Craftsman. Brown wasn't surprised by the new wrench, he said. "It's a knockoff. There's no question," he said. "If you take them apart and look at the plates, they're virtually the same. ... It's our patent. We've got it covered." Brown has now filed a lawsuit, claiming Sears stole his idea. He is being represented by the Grossman Law Offices. But Sears argues it didn't steal anything. "The allegations made by Mr. Brown simply are untrue and we will vigorously defend against all of the allegations raised in his lawsuit," Sears Holdings Corp. said in a statement to ABC News. "Despite some visual similarities to other tools on the market, the Craftsman Max Axess locking wrench operates in a different way, using a mechanism designed in the 1950s that Mr. Brown expressly argued to the patent office was different from his own design." Brown stands by his claim, however. "They're lying. That's what I say, they're lying," he said. "There's no other way. And I don't call other people liars easily, but there's no question in my mind." Brown argues that small-town American inventors like him rarely have the means to fight back against big businesses. It can cost up to $50,000 just to get that original patent and then most inventors can't afford a court fight against a corporate giant. "I think they [Sears] thought they're really big and we're too small to fight them effectively to bring them to a position where they couldn't get away with it," Brown said. "They're not going to get away with it. I'm not crazy enough to go against the tide to let this just go away now. This is fundamentally why we don't have jobs in the states." As for Sears, the company says that it has 264,000 U.S. workers and that "Sears believes in America." MORE FROM ABC NEWS

It's time for red states who collect more federal dollars than they pay in taxes to be allowed to secede if they choose.