This petition is about a former company here in El Paso Texas. The copper smelter shut down filed for bankruptcy and left a mess. The courts awarded $52 million dollars for this location and two others, Corpus Cristi, Tx and parts of Amarillio a refinery still in operations so through the courts they financed their own company.. The smelter, however, is in the worst condition. The smelter was caught incinerating nerve gases. The EPA documents stated it as a shame because there was no copper ore contents in the loads being brought in and contained nerve gases.

Wisconsin lake property taxes have been increasing consistently, to the point that the majority of lake property owners are wealthy owners from big cities with higher salaries, using their WI lake house as a second property. Keep hard-working middle-class Wisconsinites in their lake homes, don't sell out our state for others to enjoy and keep nothing for ourselves.

It's about protecting the health of everyone who shares walls, air, space in apartment and condo units. Besides entering through open windows, studies have shown that secondhand smoke can enter neighboring units under doorways and through wall cracks and openings for electrical wiring, light fixtures, plumbing, baseboards and ductwork. Some air cleaners may help to reduce secondhand smoke to a limited degree, but no air filtration or air purification system can completely eliminate all the harmful constituents of secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General has determined secondhand smoke to cause heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory illness. Simply reducing secondhand smoke does not protect against the disease and death caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General has stated that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Everyone has a right to breathe and enjoy clean air and health in their homes. This petition is requesting that an ordinance be passed (similar to Santa Monica's) fining residents of multi-unit housing for smoking within a 25-foot radius of all doors, windows, and vents.

Money from big business buys all our elected officials. Let's stop that with campaign finance reform now. No more big money buying votes. No more professional lobbying in Washington.

The majority of the populace are opposed to this abomination. It was forced upon us by legislative shenanigans. Urge your legislators to vote for reversal.

Our current Tax Code has thousands of pages and millions of words; it is incomprehensible, even by the experts and the IRS themselves. It is unfair, obscure, and subject to endless manipulation for purely political reasons. This is clearly a non-partisan issue negatively impacting all Americans. We must replace it with a tax system that is simple, honest, transparent, and fair.

The Governor of NY has proposed and the NY State Senate has passed legislation to start a new government agency called the Justice Center to investigate and prosecute all allegations of abuse to individuals with disabilities by their workers. This legislation does not include enough measures to fix a broken system that contributes to the abuse or provide any measures to support and educate good workers to keep them in the field and prevent them from becoming abusive. this petetion is to urge NY State Government to include measures to prevent abuse in this legislation.

In PA, we have thousands of people on waiting lists for needed human services to help them survive and live in the community. Why not come up with a new model for services that uses timebanks and people who have been trained by DPW to provide services. There is a model in existance in Rhode Island that does this now. It is a great help to the community.

Direct TV, CenturyLink and other BIG CORPORTATIONS claim they are people but don't act like friends when a parent dies or is placed in Senior care - why do they charge early disconnection fees of $2000 when your elder person is placed in Senior care; exceptions for PEOPLE!

If this country is the true democracy it claims to be. Every effort should be made to insure every citizen has the opportunity to vote. We go all over the world advocating this right, yet certain factions in this country are trying to suppress the vote in this country. Can you imagine the outcry in this country if other countries invoked some of the measures in being imposed by certain states in this country, some who have a long history of voter suppression.

Under the constitution the Congress is responsible for the nation's monetary system. The last major change was in Dec, 1913, almost 100 years ago. Executive action has removed gold and silver backing, starting the era of fiat money. Fundamental changes are needed in the monetary system to accommodate this era of fiat money. Specifically, fiat money should not be printed by the federal government then given to privately owned, for profit organizations to distribute into the economy.

I have been a working American for almost my whole life. And today, I'm still repaying a loan from 1981. The more I pay the more in debt I become. Sign this petition to help me and others like me who've been paying a lifetime of student loans and all I wanted was to better myself and lead a productive life. I have a great job, but that's it -- a job. I would like a career, afterall it's costing me near $100,000 I consumed to get a career. Help me America, help me life. Paycheck to paycheck is not living.