My son's dad has been in prison for almost thirty years on a 25 to Life Sentance. He is now in his early fifty 's with a variety of health issues. When he was arrested for murderer back in 1986, he was suffering from a sever brain injury and was threatened with the death penalty if he did not take a Life Term plea bargain. He had no previous criminal history and his crime was committed in the hopes of protecting children who were being abused by the victim on a regular basis. He is now much recovered from the injury and knows he committed a horrible crime. His is only one story out of hundreds. Another Lifer inmate has been in prison over thirty years for the crime of accidently killing his mother's boyfriend as he was beating severely beating her. He too is over fifty years old with no release in site. Both of these men committed one crime, both to protect a weaker person and both are serving Life sentances and both are now elderly and suffering from health issues that, collectively, cost state tax payers thousands of dollars a year in health care. A decade ago, the state housed 6000 inmates 55 and older. In 2012 it is more like 14,000 over 55. By 2017, there will be an estimated 20,000. That is an amazing figure. Even Judge Anthony Kline knows that "recindivism among Lifer prisoners is less than 1%. " Let our Lifers go home when they have served their time. Save the state money. Thank For your time. Please share this.

Only 50 Congressional seats are truly "electable" in terms of real competition. All others are "gerrymandered" to be either Republician or Democrat. I do not believe our founders intended this. With modern technology, it is time to allow real American competition to re-invigorate our political process.

Implementing the Affordable Health Care Act

When the Michigan Legislature passed and Governor Snyder signed the Fireworks Safety Act of 2011, their goal was to increase revenue to the state of Michigan and to encourage citizens to buy consumer fireworks in Michigan rather than in neighboring states. The result has been a drastic increase in the amount and violence of private fireworks displays all over the state of Michigan, thereby endangering people, pets and property. It is not worth the additional revenue. We want to return to the time before 2011 when these airborne fireworks were illegal to sell, purchase and use in the State of Michigan.

The Republican Party has been hijacked by CORPservatives, tilting the playing field to the benefit of corporations and the 1%. Through voter suppression tactics, outlandish advantages in candidate funding, and with the aid of a complicit media, they intend to win still more power despite declining faith in their motives. To combat this, we need all Democrats - and conscience-prone Republicans - to adopt the Fair America Platform which will embrace a return to the standards of integrity and civil justice that America spent 200 years building.

The legal caveats read after radio and TV ads are presented at speeds of conversations that are impossible to understand. They make a mockery of the whole idea of disclosure of conditions and limitations implicit in the ads.

Toyota continues to allow racial discrimination at it's dealerships against African American customers and employees. The "Toyota Cares" program is a fraud! My daughter and my wife and I were discriminated against to two different Toyota dealerships, Claremont Toyota and John Elway's Crown Toyota. Toyota thinks it has fixed the problem by putting minorities in their television commercials!

So many of our wounded warriors return from the battlefield with genital injuries. This takes away form the intamacy and ability to have children with loved ones. There should be more funding for Medical Professionals to help these wounded warriors regain their intamacy.

Extreme politicians in Arizona wanted to force all immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and give law-enforcement officers the ability to harass and racially profile immigrants and Latinos without any fear of penalty. They would even make it illegal for an undocumented immigrant to search for a job. Is this what Governor Romney meant last fall when he said Arizona’s approach is a “model for the nation”? The Supreme Court just struck down most of the Arizona law, and narrowly allowed a key provision to remain. The Justices warn that provision could still be unconstitutional. Already, it is terrifying Latino and immigrant communities, who know it will lead to racial profiling. Yet Mitt Romney and his campaign have still refused to change his position. The immigrant and Latino communities are already bracing for government-sanctioned harassment by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other extremist politicians, and leaders are planning to bring the case back to federal court. Tell Mitt Romney that Arizona’s anti-immigrant law is not a model for the nation. We need strong national leaders to stand against racial profiling and stand up for values of fairness and equal treatment under the law.

Ban the 'Three Strikes Law'....Let the time fit the crime...Put logic back into the Justice System...Prisons over-crowded, schools going under! Choose schools over prisons!

With the Citizens United decision and corporations buying our congress, term limits would change the congress from a bought system to a public servant system which is what the founding fathers intended.

Everyone who uses the internet will be affected. This is the Republicans and their Corporations trying to control the internet like they are unions so that the People have no voice in politics.