Modifying our Banking System: It is mathematically impossible for the United States to solve the financial catastrophe we find ourselves in without dramatically modifying our banking system. We cannot tax our way out of the problem nor "cut" (spending) our way out of it nor borrow our way out of it. The reason, as understood by Benjamin Franklin and other "founding fathers" is that with our system, there is always more money owed back than there is in existence and since the only source for new money coming into the system under our current banking scheme is a loan which is a debt that carries an interest burden, it is not possible to not go deeper into debt. About the banking system we are now operating under, Franklin said that collectively, it represents an impossible contract which cannot be fulfilled. He is right. We have to go back to what our constitution says at Article I, Section 8 [5] - Congress shall have power to "Coin money (and) regulate the value thereof..." The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 purported to change this constitutional congressional mandate although our constitution was never amended to reflect that change. The Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) is a secret cartel of large private banks that creates our money and regulates its value contradictory to the provisions of our constitution. The entire banking system, including the Fed, mainly utilizes "fractional reserve lending", compound interest and the bonding process to transfer as much of the meager accumulated wealth of the 99+% at the bottom into the pockets of the less than 1% at the top as fast as they can, thereby enslaving all those below the less than 1% at the top. We have to go back to congress creating our money and regulating the value of it and our government spending that money directly into the economy (for education, roads, ports, health care for all, social security etc.) without borrowing any of it at interest. It's as simple as that and the only way out of our economic problems. You see, eliminating the monetary inflation generated by our "private" banking system by the three main methods I outlined above would automatically also eliminate price inflation. Our economy would stabilize and we would move toward full employment, foreclosures would virtually be eliminated, cities and states could slip back into the black and out of the red, taxes in all jurisdictions could be lowered and the list of benefits goes on and on. This will not be easy and those at the top that created this system to benefit themselves will fight to the death to keep it in place. They have most of congress and the courts in their pockets and we therefore have to take the decision to institute a change out of the hands of the congress and the courts and circulate a constitutional amendment to eliminate current banking practices, specifically prohibiting the federal bonding process, fractional reserve lending and compound interest. Short of doing this, we are doomed.

Please support this petition because Deldrick Withers has been wrongfully jailed due to someone taking his identity.

The US must accelerate its use of renewable energy and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. Consuming fossil fuels causes global warming and makes our country dependent on unstable foreign governments for its energy supply thereby reducing our global security.

Are you fed up with a Congress that can't seem to work together to solve the urgent problems of our time ? Me too. It's time more voters acknowledge they have been co-opted into voting for candidates whose agendas are actually not in their own self interests . We MUST restore the Democrats to a majority in both houses of Congress. STOP ELECTING REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISTS .

We need a new party, simple. The Republicans and Democrats are in gridlock. If the Tea Party can do it, so can we.

A petition to stop businesses from deducting entertainment expense from their income tax, claiming it's a cost of business. Often, CEos and their wives use this perk to entertain themselves rather than customers. The IRS can't police this. People should sign this because businesses are able to reduce their tax bill, and then the public has to pay more taxes to make up for the taxes businesses avoid.

The Social Security/ Medicare fund was always well funded by those who payed forward. Unfortunately it wasn't locked and over the years Congress has borrowed from it and not paid back. This fund needs to be unavailable for any reason except to its investors for pension and health care. It has not run out of money as we've been told. It was embezzled out of money.

Pennsylvania (and other states) should revise DUI laws to permit offenders LIMITED driving privileges to work/school, mandated Counseling and Highway Safety School attendance, and medical care. People convicted of DUI are losing jobs, dropping out of school, and avoiding medical care because their licenses are suspended and they are prohibited from driving under any circumstance.

No more salaries to any person running for a government office who already has a job which supports them, and or said job pays them min salary wage. No more perks to said person. You want the job; you do the same as the rest of us, drive your own car to work, ride a bus or take a cab and pay for it out of your own pocket just like the average citizen must do. Immediately end all offices currently held to two year terms, and limit all incoming offices to two years. This will end the "lifetime" jobs to the rich and well connected have held from one political family to the next. Make all persons running for office prove there birth place with a birth certificate before they are elected, not two years after the fact.

People have no idea the influence Unions have in the political process. They are corrupt and are strangling the democratic party. Look at what's happening in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal. Too many people on the Gov't payroll, supported by unions, with not enough people to pay all the lavish benefits. When you attempt to act responsibly and reduce benefits, they riot.

If you are an American citizen you should honor your right to vote by voting, and each of us should pledge to do so. We should also send a message to candidates that our vote means something because we will only vote for a candidate who pledges to place his constituents' will and needs above party ideology, special causes and the influence of lobbyists and donors.

My petition is about the educational papers that I have that have not made me gainfully employed but the Department of Education would like to get paid for the loans that they issued me. Why should I pay this money back and the schools that I attended did not help me with gaining employment. RMU and Keller are not giving you the correct training but the Department of Education would like to get paid. Well I wanted to get paid back in 2004 when I graduated with a BBA and then in 2009 when I graduated with a MPA. Why is it that I have not been interviewed for a job since 2005 for a position in anything. Maybe the movie that just showed at the movies is right. Devry was not a good school to go to for an education but it still remains that I have to pay the Dept. of Ed.?