For many years Government officials have been taking advantage of high pay; long, paid vacations; and pensions unlike that of anything anyone really has a right to. Sure they are in charge of running our country, but others out there are in charge of supporting and securing our country that do not get even a 1/3 of that of the government officials. It seems a bit of a cheat that while so many of our nation is loosing their jobs, houses and health the officials are not impacted by the same threat to income and foreclosure that the majority of the country are subjected to.

Global mining giants want to gouge one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines – an open-pit 2,000 to 5,000 ft-deep behemoth – into the headwaters of Bristol Bay, generating an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste – 3,000 pounds of waste for every person on earth! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that large-scale mining in the area would jeopardize the region’s legendary salmon runs – the lynchpin of the areas world-class ecosystem that supports Native communities’ subsistence fishing as well as a $445 million annual commercial and recreational fisheries economy. The EPA has the authority under the Clean Water Act to block terribly destructive projects like Pebble Mine. Your signature and comment will urge EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to save Bristol Bay by banning large-scale mining in the area, including the Pebble Mine.

As part of its settlement agreement over Clean Air Act violations, the Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to provide North Carolina $11.2 million over the next five years, with the first two payments of $4.5M coming in 2013. These funds can be allocated to 14 different categories of projects, such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon-dioxide reduction, and pollution mitigation; AND should be targeted towards the region most affected by the original emissions—Western North Carolina. During the recent budgeting process, these funds were moved to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and the N.C. Biofuels Center and are at risk of being spent in other parts of the state.

Every member of Congress must sign a pledge to guarantee the U.S. does not default on the national debt. Congress authorizes all government spending. Congress authorizes the government to borrow money to pay for that spending. Every member of Congress must promise to support all legislation that will prevent the U.S. from defaulting on the national debt.

We the people own the air waves and broadband spectrum. Private industry leases these from us to gain billions of dollars in profit each quarter. We have the right to require them to provide free and equal air time for all qualified candidates. This will provide an opportunity for more voices to be heard and will the reduce the influence of wealthy individuals and corporate elites.

My concern is of the expliotation of young girls on any online site. How can us as a country have this taken place? We must help these young girls and their freedom. Us young women are not commodities to men. We are in much capability to achieve goals as the same as men. I plead to you to take action on this topic at hand. We must help these girls.

North Carolina legislators have passed a bill that forces state leaders to ignore scientific predictions that sea levels could rise by more than three feet in the next century. Just weeks ago a US Geological Survey study found the Cape Hatteras region a hot spot for sea level rise. We can't ignore sound science when it comes to global warming, rising sea levels and North Carolina's 301 miles of coastline. We are calling on Governor Perdue to put this matter to rest with her veto.

As a first step in election finance reform, we need to ensure that our elected representatives actually represent the people that elect them. Therefore, any financial support should only come from people who can vote in the election for the office the person is running for.

Only if a United States President is impeached or convicted of treason,should he be called by his first name,for example "Yo Barack,How is it Shaking",is wrong.A Commander and Chief,should always be addressed as Mister President ,first until he or she,says "Call me Old Man,or something.Let's get back to respecting the office of president,maybe he can do his or her job and get down and dirty and do the job.

UPDATED LANGUAGE: SignOn to Show Your Support for Holding Pepco Accountable. If the PSC members don’t do the job, Governor O’Malley should replace them with tough regulators who will. --- It has been about eight years now since the crisis at Pepco came to light, and as far as residents are concerned, nothing has changed. In fact, the problem has just gotten worse. The 2012 "derecho" storm is the worst yet, but the problem has been growing for years. In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Pepco customers were stranded without power after an ice storm. There were severe outages during storms in 2010, and 2008, and after Hurricane Isabel in 2003. In Maryland, utility companies are granted a monopoly in exchange for submitting to direct supervision by one agency, the “PSC” (Public Service Commission). The state regulators at the PSC are failing. The chairman of the PSC, Douglas Nazarian, has admitted that they were slow to recognize problems at Pepco. But he is still in charge of the PSC and so are the rest of the slow responders. Why? The PSC is an independent agency, but the Governor appoints its members and has the power to replace them. After years of failure, enough is enough. Its time to hold Pepco accountable.

Not personally affected, but politically concerned

No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay on retirement. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full-pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.