On July 28, 2012 The New York Times published an investigative article on noise, revealing that high decibel levels in restaurants and clothing stores, to name a few, make patrons consume more and consume faster. Noise has been linked to increased hypertension and heart disease. As a teacher of voice and ear training, I am seeing the day to day damage inflicted by corporate greed on youg eardrums and vocal folds. We are calling on corporate America to stop putting employees and patrons at risk in the name of greed. We are calling on them to reduce the decibel level intheir establishments.But repeated exposure to loud noise often damages hearing and has been linked to higher levels of stress, hypertension and heart disease.

It is an embarrassment that the United States is the only First World nation without universal health care. Reactionaries put pressure on Americans to believe that illusory "choices" are more important than having access to health care in the first place. Sign now to show that the most important choice you can make is for each American to have access to the health care s/he needs - and thereby the ability to do meaningful work without the pressure to provide health care benefits.

After reporting the largest quarterly earnings in its history , the head of the Walt Disney Co. showed his appreciation to President Obama by stating that he thinks the United States should cut its corporate income tax rate. “We pay a very high corporate tax rate as a company,” Disney President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said. “We know that America is very high, among the highest in the world, if not the highest in terms of corporate tax rates.

Making gun control stronger

A definite issue that will be brought up in the upcoming presidential and vice-presidential debates will be the origin of our national debt. Republican candidates will falsely claim that the Democratic administrations are to blame. It is therefore vital that President Obama tell the real facts and educate all voters.

It's all about testing

My son returned from Iraq in 2009 with 80 weeks of medical training that included Combat Medic School and Nursing School at Walter Reed for one year. He applied to Cal State Sacramento for admission to their school of nursing and was told that they do not give any credit for his military training an experiences. I followed the money to find out why. The money trail goes to the 90-10 loophole in the student loan law that gives for profit schools $145,000 in Federal student loans for non veterans. The loophole and the lack of transfer ability of military training keeps veterans in school longer and out of the employment market. HR 4055 will close the loophole but it has little chance of debate on the House floor since the Republican Leadership is blocking it using money that they received from veterans enrollment in their fro profit schools!!

Don't you see history repeating itself ??? Did you not hear bush say his presidency was "AWESOME". This 'child' destroyed the world's economy and murdered people he simply didn't like. Yet we stand by and wish him well. You republicans are the reason the Founding Fathers started this country. They are watching us with grave disappointment ................

We the disabled should be able to shop where we want. We would like this to become a law, that all stores that are so many square feet need to carry mortorize carts or wheelchairs. This would help the store owners get more customers and help the economy. I am disabled. I went to a big store asked them if they had a wheelchair they said "No". So they lost a customer.

Reducing the effects of Global Warming and, Yes, The Earth is heating up!

Dear President Obama and Secretary Clinton, Just as President Bill Clinton set a shining example of leadership by protecting the truly helpless in Bosnia, please use your influence to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority in Burma (condoned by Burmese President Thein Sein). Thank you. The Rohingyas of Burma are facing a brutal double assault by the Burmese government and Buddhist majority. Over the past months, scores of innocent Rohingya have been killed by the military as well as Buddhist monks. The ones that flee their homes to save their lives have nowhere to go! Influential Burmese people are inciting hatred against this ethnic minority through social media.

In 2010 alone, traffic accidents produced 32,788 fatalities. These people were from all ages, walks of life, and included men, women, and children. Furthermore, the cars in these accidents produced untold amounts of carbon emissions. It is time to say enough is enough, and to ask Congress to ban the motorized implements of destruction used in these accidents.