I grew up in Alabama during the Civil Rights Era and saw, first hand, the effects of hatred and discrimination. Marriage equality is yet another basic human right. I want people to be able to legally marry the person they love. It's as simple as that.

Since when can one hide money from the IRS? Imagine if We The People tried to pull what Mitt Romney is pulling? Is he scared of being jailed perhaps? Do the IRS not want to know if he owes THEM money? Either they Audit Romney or they are PART of the problem.

We have a law dealing with truth in advertising. Yet, for the highest office of the country a person is allowed to lie, take speeches out of context and to actually re-write tex. You would not hire someone that lies on their resume, why would you hire someone that lies to you in the Media.

Without regard to party affiliation, let's have all broadcast media agree to air the sentence "Please Vote - It Matters" once, and only once (or whatever is agreed upon) every hour or two. It's only 3 seconds of their air time. Surely it's worth it as a public service to all potential voters. Is anyone afraid of encouraging everybody to vote? Seems very American to me.

Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Hunter S! We need truthful, concise, objective history. Read from all sides, debate, form an opinion; instead of a sugar coated half truth! We need leaders who think for themselves, not memorizing dates. Fox News sound bites are trite and offensive! Civil rights for all, teach a class society, a racist, homophobic, anti over zealous truth to our youth! Let them chose not be brainwashed by our propogandized money run nation! Yes, I'm a bit biast towards the left; but teach all sides. In short form not force an opinion ( I don't even have children!). Civil rights and public disclosure; we owe it to the new generation's not formed by reality TV and biast news. Knowledge is freedom, not force fed lies.

Financial Institutions recently bailed out with billions of taxpayer dollars are hurting the nation's economy and ruining the lives of millions of hard-working ethical people who are trying to do what's right. Even if you've paid on time for 15 years without missing a single payment they will still charge you between 20 and 30% interest if they feel they can get away with it (i.e., if they feel you are "trapped" into paying them. This is not only wrong, but they don't deserve such a luxury. They did not take the risks - they were bailed out with our money. There is no logical reason to allow them to hurt our fellow Americans and to slow down our economy with their usury rates. We must repair our economy and prevent more homelessness and poverty that these institutions are causing.

I suggest to create a few additional Bus Lines having the acceptable schedule (every hour or every two hours in both directions) in order for people who can not drive to be able to reach important destinations located in different cities of the State of Maine.. Currently, it is not possible to be able (for the regular person) to return from the destination point to the point which he / she left the same day... There is no such possibility currently..

110K Japanese-Americans, 15K German-Americans and approx. 3K Italian-Americans were sent to interment camps during WWII. Currently only 16 states require the Japanese-American internment to be taught; ZERO states require that the interment of German and Italian Americans be taught.

Civil Rights : The president of Chick-fil-A restaurant has made his stance against gay and lesbian marriage and equal rights . We are trying to stop bullying in schools and colleges and a business like this is portraying hatred by speaking out against equal rights to the gay population . We don't need more hatred on College or school campuses .

Certain individuals and corporations seem to have unlimited funds to spend to push their agendas and buy influence. We need a Special Tax on those monies spent for political advertising and lobbying. Let the People share in the sale of their futures!!!

Make a law that says items must contain 80% of content made here in the United States of America

Every October we turn our clocks back an hour,why? Hawaii & Arizona keep there long days of summer all year long, lets do the same.Lets keep daylight savings time the way it is today!