Petitioning Congress and the Fed to adjust interest rates on student loans to the same overnight rate the Fed charges banks. An educated populace is more important to the nation than a bank that makes money loaning money to itself.

No representation without equal taxation

We know for sure reducing classroom size increases results. Let's demand our lawmakers introduce a law that the government fully funds every public school K -12 classroom so that they have less than 25 students. Nothing else in this bill. No frills. No Fat. Just improve our kids education. Now.

Rush Limbaugh has a history of denigrating women. For example, he calls strong, independent women 'feminazis'. Our women in the Armed Forces are strong, independent and smart. They deserve better. At a time when so many of these women are raped by their fellow soldiers, we need to stop vilifying women by the radio entertainers like Rush Limbaugh. Let's get him off Armed Forces Radio and support our female troops.

I'm petitioning for a simple bumper sticker.

Stop the Excessive war funding, close 1/2 of all military bases, rebuild america and get us working!

We can all agree that the minimum wage is too low to meet cost of living expenses in most states, but blanketly raising it hurts small businesses more than large ones, ultimately stifling competition and further empowering large corporations. We all support a graduated income tax, why not a graduated minimum wage. Large corporations have managed to grossly reduce their effective tax rate due to voter complacency, but would they find the same complacency if they tried to lower their employees wages? Most small businesses usually pay over min. wage as is. So simply raising it may not obligate them to pay more than they already are, while requiring the larger corps. that do pay the minimum to catch up. HOWEVER: graduating it nullifies the largely false argument that small businesses can't afford the wage raise, and still protects them in that their *perceived obligation* to pay above the minimum can still be met. This is not in contradiction to the minimum wage raise to $9.80 (~$20k/yr for full-time, it's about time), it's just for the big-box employees' minimum wages to rise to $11+/hr too.

The US Post Office is under attack, that is losing billions of dollars and we have cut back. Wrong, The USPS delivers 563 million pieces of mail per year to every community. It unites the country and facilitates democracy. 2006 Congress mandated that USPS pay 75 years of retirement benefits. Have Congress restore this and other revenues.

Oil from American property should not be allowed to be sold overseas. Oil is a national security issue and it should not be allowed to be sold as a profit-making commodity.

As responsible citizens in a democracy, we cannot accept the calls for war that would commit crime in our name and leave blood on our hands while driving a spike of oil prices into our barely recovering economy. We call on our elected representatives in Congress and the White House to Stop! Don't do it! Don't attack Iran: It will not make us, Israel or anyone else safer; it will likely spread into a regional war while we are trying to disengage from Iraq an dstill mired in Afghanistan. It will kill many thousands of innocents, damage the air, water and soil for generations, and fuel the spread of nuclear weapons as the only deterrent to attack.

It's about providing a sensible, appropriate, accessible, RELEVANT education for ALL kids, regardless of socioeconomic background. You should care because testing kids to death and using test scores as a major determinant of teacher effectiveness is creating disenfranchisement in the youth and is causing good teachers to leave the profession.

Time to bust the trust break up the the MULTI NATIONAL corporations and expand the market place for competition make them create jobs