Prison statistics are daunting.The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. At year-end 2009 it was 743 adults incarcerated per 100,000 population. Something's not working. Something needs to change.

I want the same medical insurance plan that my Congressional representatives have.Afterall,they are there to represent me.This is only fair.I am paying alot for a very mediocre plan and am paying through my taxes for Congress to have a "Cadillac"plan.

We are demanding that Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Legislature begin full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in 2010 and recently upheld by the Supreme Court. We are demanding that the insurance exchanges be created and put into service to help the millions of Texans who are uninsured and under-insured. The United States Constitution dictates that states are not above federal law. This is now the law of the land.

That the public is not mislead by politiical ads, or political statements are not taken out of context. That the truth must be told or those trying to decieve the public will be fined heavly and will not be able to participate in any future elections. This will at least keep those big corporations from misleading the public.

I have been unable to pay down my federal tax debt because the interest added to it monthly is more than the amount I owed initially. I cannot afford to pay the back taxes owed so adding interest to it makes it worse and frustrating.

I would like to propose that congress, both the senators and representatives, give up their familial insurance privileges in toto until and unless they pass a healthcare bill which is equitable, fair and affordable for all Americans I currently have insurance through my company, but my company has recently laid off several thousand people and is getting ready to lay off several thousand more I do know too many people who do not have any insurance and the horror stories of the “free clinics” and substandard care to which they have access. My friend is expected to grovel and beg for doctor appointments and medicines. She has been on and off of her anti-anxiety and depression meds so much I never know how she will be when we talk. Others who have to wait for hours and make appointments months in advance to have access to medical care from the local hospital free clinics

I am horrified that the Democrats can be defeated in November by $$$$$$$. If President Obama could speak DIRECTLY to the poor on TV (they have TVs, whether or not they have computers) and convince them that their VOTES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY, we can WIN. One third of Democrats voting this year is NOT going to do it for us.

Support for ObamaCare as a Civil Rights issue!

I was diagnoised with Crohn's Disease in October of 2010 and this disease has devastated my life, savings and retirement. There is no financial assistance for patients with this disease and most drugs and treatments are either experimental or very expensive. I cannot qualify for medicaid and I have been turned down twice for SSI.

Reinstate Glass Steagall Act. Force the banks to get out of the securities business and stick to traditional banking, like making loans.

Books for college can cost hundreds of dollars, just for one class! That is already on top of the outrageous cost of tuition and fees. There needs to be a cap on these fees, tuition and books. Education should be affordable to everyone, not just the wealthy.

Low interest rates are helping only one group, the richest people in America, and the greedy, 1%. If the Austerity mongers gets all that it wishes; ending Collective Bargaining, cuts in pensions, Medicare, Social Security, laying-off millions of people, what will happen? The discretionary income of approximately 80 – 90 million people will be all but annihilated. The companies whom they support by buying goods and services will be diminished and those companies they were patronizing by buying goods and services will go bankrupt and added to the present 31 million out of work and underemployed will more than double making the depression of 1929 look like a lark in the park. Austerity is exactly the worst approach. See the success of Argentina, Brazil, and the Northern European nations like Sweden, Norway and Denmark, who used FDR’s processes. One does not pull back on marketing when business is dragging it increases and improves marketing. There is right now $7.77 trillions in savings in US banks at a near zero rate of IEOSD-(Interest Earned On Savings Deposits) yielding to depositors next to nothing. Instead of the depositors gaining the banks are keeping it and doing nothing with it. At a rate of 5% on IEOSD the $7.77 trillions would yield $385 billion dollars, which, if given at least that rate of 5% (IEOSD) as was the case before the attack on Iraq) estimates say the depositors would pump into the market place about 75% - 90% of that money. The 99% own about 50% ($192 Billions) of that cash. They would spend or invest it quickly and thus will create sales and jobs. The present rate of near zero IEOSD pumps NOTHING into the economy and Mr. Bernanke wants to keep it that way for almost three more years, while the banks are keeping the interest which depositors, should be receiving. I further suggest that Either by an Executive Order or a new Bill ad huge excise taxes on all currently outsourced jobs which bring outsourced goods to meet or exceed prices of similar goods made in one of the 50 states of the USA. The United States has had a public debt since it’s founding in 1791. Debt relative to GDP rose rapidly during the 1980s under president Ronald Reagan, whose economics policies increased military spending and lowered tax rates. Gross debt in nominal dollars quadrupled during the Reagan era as well as during the era the senior Bush presidencies between 1980 -1992. The net public debt quintupled in nominal terms. Debt held by the public had declined from 28% to 26% of GDP in the 1970s; by contrast, it rose to 41% of GDP by the end of the 1980s. But all of that money went to corporations who grew NO new jobs. You cannot spend money and lower taxes at the same time that is like quitting your job and buying a new house. “Economist Mike Kimel notes that the last five Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry S. Truman) all reduced public debt as a share of GDP, while the last four Republican Presidents (George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford) all oversaw an increase in the country’s indebtedness. Economic historian J. Bradford DeLong, former Clinton Treasury Department official, noted that the contrast was not so much between Republicans and Democrats, but between Democrats and "old-style Republicans (Eisenhower and Nixon)" who on one hand (decreasing debt), and "new-style Republicans" on the other (increasing debt). D.Stockman, director of the OMB under President Reagan, in an op-ed in the New York Times, blamed the "ideological tax-cutters" of the Reagan administration for the increase of national debt during the 1980s." PART ONE: I suggest a petition to raise Interest Earned on Savings of Deposit to bring to Americans with savings in banks $385 billion dollars which would be pumped into the economy raising jobs. PART TWO: I further suggest that Either by an Executive Order or a new Bill ad huge excise taxes on all currently outsourced jobs which bring outsourced goods to meet or exceed prices of similar goods made in one of the 50 states of the USA.