Mr. Romney continues to lie about & disrespect the President. But he also continues to INSULT THE VALUE OF THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS. Bottom line, he has invalidated the worth of any of his opinions.

To facilitate raising taxes on the super-rich we should add three new income tax brackets with higher rates set at to $1million, $10million and $100million annual income levels. Currently we tax $100,000,000+ earners with the same tax rate as $250,000 earners which makes raising taxes on the super-high earners difficult.

Adding more insult to injury, families living in the devastation of the Hurriblizzard of 2012 are now receiving notices from their homeowners insurance companies that they will be dropped from the policy. The NE has been hit hard in the past 3 years, a violent Nor'easter, Hurricane Irene, and now Sandy with the topper a blizzard. The insurance companies must be stopped from dropping people in the hour of their greatest need.

Recently the FTC has announced "Relaxed" waivers for media companies with concentration of Print, & Television ownership in cities in America. In Hartford, CT Rupert Murdoch's companies own the one statewide Nerwspaper, The Hartford Courant, The Advocate Newspapers, Fox TV

Planned Parenthood is under attack in Ohio. The Republican Party once again has lost the focus of the people. Instead of focusing on access to health care for women. The Republican party is focusing on who they want to pay for women's health care services.

Limit the amount of money directly or indirectly involved in campaigning. We should also legally shorten the amount of time candidates are allowed to campaign. And we should pass legislation to get rid of PACs and super PACs.

Condemnation of John McCain and Lindsay Graham for attacks on attacks on Susan Rice relating to Benghazi attacks.

A recent study gives New Jersey the dubious distinction of ranking 11th in the country for income inequality, and a big part of the problem is that the state’s minimum wage is just too low. Right now the state wage is $7.25 an hour, or around $15,000 per year. If the minimum wage had been keeping pace with inflation, it would be well over $9 by now. Even raising the wage to $8.50 would bring in $439 million in wages to working families -- and give the state's lagging economy a much needed jolt. The legislature is considering proposals that would raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation. Tell them that now's the time to give New Jersey a raise!

Dennys Boycott

The San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department is quietly attempting to convert a long-vacant historic building on the Marina Green into a commercial restaurant by executing a ten-year lease with the Woodhouse Fish Company. This violates the Open Space Element of the General Plan. No environmental impacts have been addressed. As part of the use, Woodhouse plans to serve alcohol in a public playground, which is against public policy. A traffic study hasn't been conducted, and ADA regulations have been dismissed. 48 neighborhood organizations oppose the proposal, though Parks and Rec has never made a meaningful attempt to consult the local neighborhood nor Marina Green users.

John Schnatter, CEO of Papa John's, continued his attacks on the Affordable Healthcare Act before students at Edison State College, just the day after President Obama was reelected.

Dear Mr. President: You and Secretary Arne Duncan—endorsed in your efforts by Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, and a host of reactionary politicians and pundits—now bear a major responsibility for a toxic agenda of “school reform.” The three most trumpeted and simultaneously most destructive aspects of the united “school reform” agenda are these: 1) turning over public assets and spaces to private management; 2) dismantling and opposing any independent, collective voice of teachers; and 3) reducing education to a single narrow metric that claims to recognize an educated person through a test score. While there’s absolutely no substantive proof that this approach improves schooling for children, it chugs along unfazed. Race to the Top is but one example of incentivizing bad behavior and backward ideas about education: It’s one state against another, this school against that one, and my second grade in fierce competition with the second grade across the hall. Arne Duncan attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (as did our three sons); you sent your kids to Lab, and so did your friend Rahm Emanuel. There students found small classes, abundant resources, and opportunities to experiment and explore, ask questions and pursue answers to the far limits, and a minimum of time-out for standardized testing. They found, as well, a respected and unionized teacher corps, people who were committed to a life-long career in teaching and who were encouraged to work cooperatively for their mutual benefit (and who never would settle for being judged, assessed, rewarded, or punished based on student test scores). In a vibrant democracy, whatever the most privileged parents want for their children must serve as a minimum standard for what we as a community want for all of our children. Every child deserves the type of education your children receive. It is time to set American education on that course, and a strong step in that direction would be appointing Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education. A teacher and recognized scholar/researcher for decades, Dr. Darling-Hammond will not be swayed by big money or political expediency or the latest fads. She will be independent, professional and principled. We can then return to the precious but fragile ideal that must power education in a democracy: Every human being is of incalculable value, and the fullest development of all is the condition for the full development of each.