The United States BIG PROBLEM Today Is the lack of good paying careers. The reason behind this are the complete and utter unfair trade agreements with countries like China, and Germany. Let's bring all of our foreign trade agreements back to the table and equalize them for a huge boost in our economy. Anything else is unacceptable!

Our political system is dysfunctional. This is due in large part to too many extreme views and not enough in the middle. It is well known among those who study voting systems, that our "first past the post" system is almost the worst possible voting system. Preference voting would get us more candidates with moderate views, perhaps a larger voice to other parties, and would ensure that the candidate most desired by the population would be the candidate elected. (Our current system does not do this!) It might even save money, as it may be possible to do away with primary elections.

To make America succeed, everyone should be afforded a basic education, not just free but mandatory. Public Schools free and open to all should be available to all between the ages of 5 and 15. For-profit school corporations should not be paid for with public funds and should never compete with public education. Public funding should go to benefit all Americans and NEVER go to a system that benefits only a segment of Americans per the 14th Amendment.

Positions in Congress were never intended to be a lifetime occupation. Elected officials should spend all their time working on the peoples government. Re-election should be based on their performance not donations.

Kentucky's prisons are full and costing taxpayers an enormous amount of money. One of the ways of rehabilitating inmates and improving the rates of successful transition from inmate to productive citizen is good programs within the prison. The Night Visit Program is a special incentive program designed to promote positive behavior and strengthen social ties. The program allows for participation by Honor Dormitory, Firehouse, and any inmate meeting the criteria for honor housing.The visits are in the visiting area from 6:30 to 8:30 on Fridays. These visits have been ended at Kentucky State Reformatory.

This historic award winning structure can be preserved as a pedestrian-bicycle crossing (new bridge doesn't have one and millions of dollars are proposed to add such) Cost to remove it, millions. Logic, history, esthetics and Yankee values argues for it's preservation for future generations and a safety backup for crossing the Penobscot.

Gridlock in our nation's capital is strangling our ability to formulate and implement the needed reforms to our economy that will allow us to climb out of this financial and fiscal hole we've dug for ourselves. The complicated nature of our problems allow special interests to obfuscate and resist changes. I offer a simple solution we can all get behind. It is generally agreed that the Simpson-Bowles solution, while containing hard to swallow pieces for both sides, would be a healthy step forward for our country. It is a balanced approach that would at least set us on the path toward reducing our deficit, and provide some much needed tax reform, that, in turn, would encourage businesses to feel more secure and start investing and hiring again. Let's simply implement it. The politicians won't or can't. The question at this point is: do We the People really have any power left? Lets test it. If we get 2 million signatures to this petition, they'll have to take notice. Can we do it? I think we can, if we stand together.

President Obama and Vice President Biden are our champions. If they do not have the courage to stand with Wisconsin Democrats for all to see, will progressive groups have the desire to come out to vote for them in November.

This petition is about equal treatment for "All" citizens living within the United States , and how some are denied fair treatment in the ares's of Safety, Education, Economics, and equal sharing of of awarded Government funds into Urban communities ; by local Governments.

The biggest problems facing public school students are the underfunded mandates of government agencies,big business profiteering, ill-guided commissions, and politicians all looking to line their pockets and build their resume's. Parents, school children, educators and local school boards know better how to prepare and support their local kids, and it's not with endless testing and cheap, disrespected teachers. Return their power of self governance and funding. Stop selling their futures to publishing giants, data-miners and "charter schools".

I am sick and tired of seeing the representative of the super rich try to stop much needed programs for the working poor, social programs and programs for the middle class.

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