I am an American who feels that the voting process is a travesty of democracy. It should be based on the popular vote and not on the Electoral college (Winner takes all). This past election made that very clear when Barack Obama had been declared the winner with only 60% of the popular vote counted.

This is a petition requesting that China should make efforts to address the suffering of the Tibetan People in Tibet. There has only been silence regarding the ever increasing number of Tibetan's committing immolation. China must come to terms with this reality and not think that it will go away. We the world must know what solution does China have? Blaming the Dalai Lama is not a solution to the failed policies in Tibet. Please support this effort. The Tibetan issue will not go away, how can we have good trade relationship with China when human rights means so little to them

lets stop the war, before it's too late, don't let israel get us into another war. we need to focus our money in our own country! wars are big money for corporations. let's bring our soldiers home.

Petition for all elected officials to void or retract all pledges made to any entity that does not make public all sources of contributions and sources of income.Politicians have blindly signed pledges to groups who have not revealed if the groups receive funding from foreign governments or antiamerican groups.

The election is over and the message was loud and clear. Economic relief for middle class and poor is priority number one. Stop the nasty politics and do your job. Obstructionists won't win re-election.

The US is facing "falling off the financial cliff" on January 1, 2013. The American public "hired" Congress to make sure there is a fair, long term solution that will avert this disaster to our economy.

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.