Gatekeepers are individuals that block or delay individual or groups efforts to bring forth positive ideas or action steps to stop mortgage lenders (banks or financial institutions) from skirting laws of records from enforcement to keep their job. by pigeon holding applications or "claims of being overwhelmed by the workload!" Or worst petty personality clashes of people evicted from their homes of masny yesrs.

7% 0F THE 1% ARE BUYING THIS ELECTION BECAUSE OF THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN CITIZENS UNITED. WE ARE NOT UNITED IN THIS

The recession has really made it difficult for employment. It has forced college graduates to turn to assistance at their local Social Services. The Welfare Reform Act need to be revised for people who has college education and work experience. We don't want to sit in an 8 hour a day class that only teaches people to become self sufficient when of course we are college graduates. We are only at Social Services because employment is very difficult to obtain and working minimum wage barely pay the bills or feed families. Please establish a program that put college graduates first in line to gain employment. We don't need to be trained how to obtain employment, build resumes, or studies toward GED program. It's great that the program is there for people who are in those guidelines but it also makes college graduates over qualified. It's nothing within the program that help college graduates feel that we are benefiting something. The law itself is blinded and no one never imagined that the recession would lead college graduates who has an Associate Degree, Bachelor Degree, or Masters Degree into Social Services.

The major dysfunctionality of government is the good old boy network of politicians who run this country for their own profit. If they had a two term limit then they wouldn't be able to wield the power they currently control. The intent would be for them to do what is in the best interest of the people and not the corporations that currently run our government.

Fresh from giving the leading prayer at the Republican National Convention, Cardinal Timothy Dolan will also be giving the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention. Given Dolan’s record though, which includes staunch anti-women’s choice positions and allegations that he paid off sexual abusers in the clergy, should he really be on the bill at all? The New York Catholic archbishop, who is also Senior Catholic Cardinal in the United States and President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been quick to make it known to both the RNC and the DNC that he would not be backing any candidate and that he would not be politicking, only prayerful. This would be more convincing if Dolan did not have a glaring record of aggressive religious conservatism however. When New York passed a law legalizing gay marriage last year, Dolan came out blazing with baseball analogies and a comparison to incest. “Because where then would the tampering stop?” he asked Morely Safer during a 60 Minutes Overtime interview. ”I mean, I love my mom. I don’t have the right to marry her, OK?” He didn’t stop there either. While saying he could never be classed as anti-gay, he also compared gay marriage to frivolous divorce, polygamy, adultery, forced marriages, communist dictatorships, “Orwellian social engineering“ and, sin of all sins, cohabitation. His quarrel with gay marriage perhaps pales in comparison to his outbursts earlier this year over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. Casting it as a fight for freedom of religion that Catholics had been forced into, Dolan rallied against the Affordable Care Act’s rule requiring insurers and employers to provide preventive care services, including contraception, in a chain of interviews and opinion pieces where he called the mandate “egregiously unfair,” “un-American,” an “unconstitutional detour,” “mandated violations of conscience,” “a radical violation of the First Amendment,” and “morally toxic and an intrusion into the internal life of the church.” He played up to the “war on religion” meme and vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court. So why is this guy speaking at the Democratic National Convention? Some have praised the Democratic party for offering this olive branch as a smart move to undercut the Republican Party’s claim to the Catholic base. However, it seems all those who have had positive things to say about Dolan’s DNC prayer have overlooked Dolan’s actions as archbishop of Milwaukee. It emerged earlier this year during bankruptcy proceedings against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee that there was record of Dolan authorizing payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests so that they would leave the priesthood, instead of actually reporting the offenders to the police. Said the The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) in a statement at the time: ”We know, incontrovertibly, that while Dolan was claiming to heal the Milwaukee Church of the sexual abuse scandal he was instead running a shadow operation to pay off priests who had raped, sexually assaulted or abused children so that they could quietly take this money and disappear into the community unprosecuted, undetected, and unrepentant.” This “laicization” or “defrocking” as it is known, is (staggeringly) not uncommon in the Catholic church. Reports suggest the ex-clergy were also given $1,250 in monthly pension benefits and health insurance until they were able to land a job, this in addition to the $20,000 severance. Dolan initially denied that he made such payments, saying the claims were “false, preposterous and unjust,” and then when proof was offered, Dolan simply would not comment. Of course, given Dolan’s position as a senior Catholic figure it always seemed unlikely that the DNC would actually dare snub him and therein risk cementing accusations that President Obama and the Democratic Party are, en masse, waging a “war on faith.” But when does the tipping point occur? When does a religious figure become too extreme? The answer might just be, it seems, when there isn’t an election to win.

Every political race claims that public education needs improving.but they have no idea how to "fix" something teachers and students have not broken. There is always need for improvement, (districts are always providing trainings), but more testing kids, phony teacher evaluations, and private-for-profit vouchers are NOT the way to do it. There is growing recognition, especially in Florida, that schools are being made to "fail" so private-for-profit companies can provide alternatives. Taking education out of the hands of educators is wrong for the sake of students, teachers, and the future of U.S. citizens.

Lobbyists often exert disproportionate influence on elected and appointed state and federal officeholders on many pending legislative issues to the detriment of most citizens and the general welfare of the nation. All citizens, including myself, are affected, when the majority of the people's interests are ignored in favor of small interest groups with special vested interests. The reason is that lawmakers are receiving lavish gifts, vacations, donations to campaign organizations, and other items that can potentially influence their decision making.

Black people in the south are even to this day being put in harms way. Just by the shade of someones skin in States like WA,NC,SC,GA, and others people are beat and raped ever day in the south. This is not the American way of being we need to help our friends in the south and put a stop to all forms of hate. ware ever it lives.

We are concerned that Trader Joe's, such a huge supplier of foods to ours and many other communities, does not follow as much sustainable guidelines as it should. I recently stopped buying milk there due to it going from cartons to plastic, which uses petroleum and is much worse for the environment. They reach a lot of people and can be a good example of more sustainable business practices. It really counts when you're so big

I am suggesting that we have a draft for all future wars initiated by the United States

IRS Code on the amount of taxable income at which Social Security Benefits become taxable has not been adjusted for inflation since it was implimented in1983. Until 1983 there was no income tax on Social Security benefit income. I am a 99% person and pay income tax on 85% of my Social Security yearly benefits to me and my wife because our adjusted gross taxable income is over $35000. Middle class retired people need a brake!

TVA is suddenly enforcing a 1933 reg prohibiting roofs on campers on TVA shorelines. After 15 years, I am stressed out over losing my camping pleasure and privledge in a retirement cottage I can afford. This will impact hundreds of grassroots Americans in their quest for some leisure enjoyment they can afford!