Climate scientist James Hansen proposes a tax on carbon fuels at the source, where the fuel is produced. See http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2009/WaysAndMeans_20090225.pdf. The tax money would be returned to legal U.S. residents to spend as they choose. Prices of carbon fuel would go up, creating an incentive to use less, while the money returned to residents offsets the higher price. Unlike a simple gasoline tax, under which proceeds go to state or federal coffers, this plan compensates residents for the tax they pay, so an excessive burden does not fall on the poor.

Every PG&E customer was compelled to switch to the Smart Meter. Recently, as a result of organized public outcry against potential detrimental health effects and privacy invasion posed by the new meters, PG&E has decided to offer to switch customers back to the analog meters, upon request. The hitch: A $75 fee to switch the meter back, plus an additional fee of $10 per month! Those who did not want the Smart Meter to begin with must now pay to have the safer analog meter reinstalled and read. Make PG&E reverse all charges! The public should not be financially penalized for having their safer power source restored.

This petition is about stopping one of the many excesses of our elected officials that they would rather keep out of the public discourse. They give themselves pay raises without any oversight. Never paying into the social security system and all of it at our taxpayers expense.

At present your Senators and Congressmen have a salary of $174,000.00 a year, plus.

1 stocks being sold must have been paid for by the seller, this would make short selling illeagal, particularly "super short selling" 2 Executive stock option's should be as illeagal as insider trading, any additional excutive compensation beyond their base salary must come from profit sharing.

"To help the economy get more of a boost from low interest rates, Obama proposed that almost anyone who has a credit score above 580 and has been paying his or her monthly mortgage bill on time for the past six months be able to refinance. It wouldn’t matter under Obama’s proposal whether borrowers had government-backed mortgages or loans owned by banks and other private investments" It is time that the average person be helped and people who are paying their mortgages be able to refinance automatically at the new rates. This will help the economy. please consider signing my petition and passing it on to others!

In his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote "... I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." Unfortunately while our government was designed to safeguard itself from scaling this 'wall of separation', our politicians individually not only regularly and blatantly climb over the wall, but are making increasingly daring attempts to drag the rest of us over as well. Our forefathers, with amazing clarity and will, saw the inherent dangers of Theocracy. Many of our current politicians ignore those same dangers by using religious materials, speech and symbolism in their campaigns and while in office.

The caging of human beings in tiny concrete cells with no windows, no natural light, no human touch for decades in many cases is cruel and wrong. When people who have been so held, they are completely broken when they are released.

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP (HFCS) has been around for about thirty-five years. I believe that we are beginning to see the ill effects of consuming this product. Our bodies cannot break down HFCS. Diabetes is at record numbers and continues to rise. Food manufacturers put HFCS in almost everything we eat and drink. Profits before health is not a way to do business.

The proposed Blunt amendment would allow all employers to deny their employees access to ANY form of health care they claimed a personal "moral" objection. Not one women was allowed to testify at a congressional hearing on women's health! How long will we continue to allow men to make critical decisions about our bodies, our health?

I would like to recall NJ Gov. Christy. He has regraded all public employees...police, state tropper, firemen and teachers. He only cares about his millionaire friends not the middle and lower classes in our state.

The SEC should be real time monitoring the financial trading of our elected officials - http://goo.gl/bUvc8