It should be illegal for an employer to screen any employee, or employment applicants credit report, and base their employment or potential employment on that score. This discrimination is a large part of what is keeping the unemployment rate at high levels.

Clearing our streets of assault weapons.

Pledge for voters and lawmakers in Alabama to sign, promising to protect the needs of children. Our current General Fund is in severe shortfall: services to children including their medical care are being threatened. Some lawmakers have signed a Norquist Pledge not to bring in new revenue with taxes-- we want them to pledge instead to do the right thing for the children of our state. Read more at http://pippaabston.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/alabama-a-better-pledge-to-sign/

On television and radio, the commercials are routinely made to play much louder than the regular programming. This is an offense to the ears of all Americans and an imposition upon all American citizens of all political bents. A strictly-enforced rule should be enacted to forbid this practice.

We all have a nuclear Sword of Damoclese over our heads, unless We the Common People demand its complete eradication by the year 2030.

Our younger generation has been assaulted by the Afghanistan War, which is creating an onslaught of heroin addicted veterans that end up in jail committing suicide! We need to protect our young people from the onslaught of this drug proliferation of this very addictive drug, heroin! Drug addicted youth need to be treated medically to help save their lives, not by incarceration!

The Hollywood Community Plan will diminish the quality of life for all residents -- current and future. Variances and established height limits to protect environmental impact will be waived. Coordination with emergency services, public transportation and community facilities is a MUST. This is a developer's dream. Developers will be able to Manhattanize Hollywood with residents having little recourse to object. The Plan is based on flawed data as the City of Los Angeles contends that the population of Hollywood will increase to 250,000 by 2030. When in fact it has steadily decreased -- more than 7% over the last 20 years -- with no indication of growth. Please hellp us make our goal.

There is a tax on social securiy payments if one dares take anything over $15k out of investments or other pensions. Barak Obama promised to change the calculation to exempt double the amount in the formula. It hasn't been done and, especially here in NYC, $15k is not a high income. It is unfair to tax money that I paid for in 45 years of work.

for 50 years the CUBAN PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED! needlessly because of this draconian,inhumane measure.'

Demand justice for a young man who shot in the back twice by police. Ariston Waiters, 19 years old was shot and killed on December 14, 2011

What would the effects be if we had a campaign finance situation like this? Every elected official is legally required to actually say, " I can't take your money, if you are not a voter in my district." This would eliminate lobbyists' bribes and non-constituent influences.

Corporations are not people, and the decision to allow corporate interests to fund as much money without disclosure into political campaigns is clearly unconstitutional this decision should be thrown out. More than any other preceding law, this one decision does more to undermine the integrity of our political system and allows corporate interests and their deep pockets to literally steer this country away from "for and by the people" , to "for and by the corporations. I cannot imagine our founding forefathers signing on to something that distorted.