Circulated by Concerned Citizens of Bar Harbor

We the people of the United States of America deserve the right to make more decisions concerning our lives as american citizens. So I suggest more questions be included on the voting ballot such as, How do we feel about the judicial process......should parts of it be rehauled? or Do we want Universal Health care ? We should make our voices heard on the ballots not leave it up to the Congress and Senate.

As long as Corporate Lobbying and Citizens United exists, there can never be a democracy that serves the people. We've seen it all before, a nuclear power plant is leaking tritium into the city's water supply and the power plant's neighborhoods are all coming down with cancers and dying. Or maybe BP killed the community's livelihood and their chemical dispersants have made everyone that worked on the clean up ill by taking the oil spill out of sight and mind, but leaving it polluting the gulf. Or maybe oil and gas fracking is leaving hexavalent chromium polluting a community's water and benzene polluting their air and leaving everyone sick and the land dying. There are countless examples, but the result is often the same. The laws protect the corporations. The companies deny liability and argue out of fines and fees in court. All because lobbying creates a breach of liability for the corporations. Corporations are not people. Corporations shouldn't be allowed to be so far above the people. The U.S. was not founded as a feudal system with corporations on top. We used to have things like anti-trust laws to protect us from corporate greed run amok. It's time to bring that kind of people's protection from corporate greed back.

Too many of our young people are drowning in debt. Some will never be debt free at this pace. Education in this country shouldn't cost more than a house. At the growing rate of this economy, they won't be able to afford either.

Services for the disabled, especially children, are funded by Medicaid, and although federal funds are involved, programs are state-by-state. The result is that when a family of a disabled person receiving services is required to move to a different state for their work, they must choose between having a job or losing their child, as most families cannot survive without the services they receive and they'd have to start over in the new state, getting to the back of the line on waiting lists all over again and perhaps not receiving comparable services. These rules must change, to enable families in our increasingly mobile society to meet the needs of their families without leaving a child behind in another state.

H.R. 4067 is economic blackmail to coerce the Navajo and Hopi nations to give up all water rights, forever, to ALEC members Peabody Coal, the Salt River Project, APS, and other owners of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), in exchange for no compensation. It also will prevent any litigation by the Navajo and Hopi nations should they incur any future financial losses or physical harm as a result of water loss and/or water contamination.

Jan Brewer has attempted to make anything in the way of progress in the state of Arizona become an issue that does anything but improve the conditions of life for Arizonans. She is constantly doing something outlandish and recently orchestrated an attack on all disabled and poor people who recieve food stamps in Arizona. When the disabled finally after many years received a much needed cost of living increase, she encouraged the Republicans in the state senate to rewrite the rules for food stamps and taking even more than was increased out of everyone's food stamps. The point is, what good is it for the Federal Government in the form of Social Security to give a cost of living increase if the state is going to take it back out of these poor people's food assistance. This was an attack on the poor and this woman and her henchmen need to be removed from office.

The U.S. banking system is heavily (HEAVILY) invested in worthless European PIIGS sovereign debt bonds. The U.S. banking and Federal political system have already planned a secret program of stone-walling and bailing out the top 5 U.S. banks AGAIN. This will debase the dollar's value first to 50 cents and eventually down to 30 cents of the NOW dollar.

So called "Blowout Preventers" have not been improved. This is the second anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in history, and NO SERIOUS ADVANCES in safety procedures, cleanup technology, and blow out prevention for ocean floor drilling have been made. The same insufficient technology is still being allowed that was used in 1979. Since drilling operations have expanded since 2010, industry experts say an even higher risk exists of another, perhaps worse, oil blowout. If we have learned anything, it is that oil companies cannot police themselves! Created: Apr 21, 2012 at WhiteHouse.gov Issues: Environment

Buses@DART need replacing now cause Maintenance dept. is slacking very BADLY and we have to drive these buses ALL SUMMER long!!!!!!!!!! LETS SPEED UP THIS PROCESS.... NOW!!!!!!! PLEASE SIGN PETITION.......ALW!!!!!!!

Currently corporations receive many of the benefits meant for citizens but bear few of the risks and responsibilities. Given that current law treats them like people, they must be held accountable like people. Specifically, they should be jailed, closed, or terminated when they are convicted of crimes just like people..

Ever since the disastrous crash of the 20's and 30's, we enjoyed the protection the Glass Steagall Act afforded us. That Act kept "investment banks" and commercial banks separate, so that "investment bankers", or gamblers, could not gamble with our mortgages and business loans.. When the Act was rescinded in 1999 our current financial troubles began, because it allowed "investment bankers" to gamble by devising risky loans, disguising them as low-risk, and passing them on to unsuspecting banks and other investors. The new buyers have the risk of losing their money and many of them have lost from the foreclosures and other failed loans.