With budgets being the way they are many counties like ours here in WA state Lewis County have closed all case management for folks with HIV / AIDS making it another counties issue which is already to lean to properly manage their cases so how do we get all elected officials to realize this issue and help those in need in their own area

What America needs is a vision for the future that backed by government and private funding translates into new businesses and industries designed to meet the challenges of today.

In the early stages of the company, a rising entrepreneur, Sam Walton, began a company which proudly touted products with the “Made In the USA” logo. As a child I can remember some pride in knowing I was helping the U.S. economy while shopping for lower prices. Lower prices were just a happy by-product. Fast forward 25 years later, and “Made in the USA” is nowhere to be seen and is definitely not a selling point. Keep in mind that we as Americans have always been an inventive people, but we won WWI and WWII because as a nation we were able to draw upon a manufacturing sector second to none. What if we needed to enter WWI with the state of our current manufacturing sector? Imagine. Today, our manufacturing sector is suffering due to the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs and from a lack of proper tariffs to protect our workers. The bottom line outweighs the moral necessity to help others. As an Arkansan, nothing would make me happier than to see our greatest success story step up and reengage the workers of this country. Stop allowing the expenditures by the 99% of the USA, the ones who need to save the most, also be the leading contributor to bleeding our manufacturing sector simply because they need the low prices the most. Let's make America a manufacturing power-house again. Only one company has the power on its own to actually sbring about change, as it did during its inception when Sam was at the helm.

Having a chronic disease I NEED insurance nor can I afford to be turned down.

A 50% TAX on ALL Political PAC spending for campaigns and candidates! It's time to make the buying of our elected representatives pay for the other real needed expenses to run our country. Education, infrastructure, social programs should be our national priority.

Most families are stressed due to overwork for people that have jobs. Stressed due to lack of job opportunities, and overburdened due to the lack of time available to be with their families. A shorter work week would solve many of these problems. Allowing parents to share child care and spend more quality time with each other. As a single parent, a shorter work week (with the same pay of course) would have gone a long way to reducing stress and improving family interactions. In addition, a shorter work week would help solve the unemployment problem. It is time that the American Government make an investment in the American People.

All (real) citizens of the USA are disempowered by the new, overwhelming cash advantage of large corporate and wealthy donors to political campaigns. That advantage allows fear and misinformation to be used to subvert the true will of the people!

The privatization of prisons by the state. Prison is dehumanizing it cripples the human mind and body and its effects remain for a lifetime. For those that don't go insane or become emotional sterile, meaning "institutionalized". Life after returning to their families or community is never the same, many are mentally incapacitated from the effects of what they have had to endure or see done to others to survive. For many it is the same a surviving a war. Only to come back into a society that further dehumanizes them by not recognizing their right to vote or feed their families by having a job, which ultimately destroyes the family unit. Many of the companies lobbying the government are guaranting a 90% full capacity rate within the prisons..this means eventually someone you love or know will be imprisoned because to accomplish this rate more laws will need to be made to undermine your civil rights as free Americans!!! to embroil you into the criminal justice system and once there, there you will remain, trapped in a system that cares little for you as a individual or a human. And, the true problem is that you never quit paying and never does your family. For those that do make it back sane to their families, since they have received no true rehabilatation( you must fit a criteria and a waiting list) many come back home with only the survival skills of a prison life. We must and can do better than this!!!

An alternative to paying back child support arrears without jail. Ive been unemployed before and have fallin behind in child support payments and have gone to jail because of it. I think its a horrible way to quell overdue payments. Not only does the mother not get any arrears but jail prevents the offender from getting employment, which is the very reason for the situation.

The uniforms for the US Olympic team need to be made in the USA. To get them from overseas is a slam to the US garment industry

Mitt Romney is running for President but being secretive about his finances. This is nothing new for him because he destroyed documents and computer hard drives when he left as Governor of Massachusetts. The American people want to know what he's hiding before they vote for him.

Their salaries are high enough that they should have no problem providing for their own healthcare. They don't need taxpayers to foot the bill anymore.