The push to make Voter ID laws that are targeted at Poor, Ethnic, and Student voters is nothing more than a Poll Tax disguised as "Fraud Prevention." Making people pay for a State Authorized form of ID is a tool to disenfranchise people on limited or fixed income.

Each of use creates wastewater daily and the reason it can't be released into a river or lake is that it causes algae blooms, it's a rich resource for growing algae. So in America we burn 474-million gallons of all types of transportation fuels a day and with 300-million people that's 1.58-gallons a person a day in fuel. If you grow algae to purify the wastewater it's worth about 2-gallons or more a day per person on the system. Biodiesel will burn in any engine on the planet so this suggests a way to gain all our transportation fuels from our own wastewater and never need a drop of oil. The reasons to do this is that algae are the world's best water cleaners so when growth-rates drop the water is given final treatment and fully recycled like North Lake Tahoe's plant has been doing since the late 1970's, so you get the water back. Then you get the biodiesel by pressing the algae for oils and giving that a tweak to work with the seals in the engines you use. This system can work at any scale, for example Phoenix, AZ, produces 10-million gallons a day of secondary effluent, 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer the algae must consume before tomorrow and worth about 3-million gallons of biodiesel daily. The fertilizer alone is worth over $9-million a day, that's part of the economy of doing this is to use this renewable source to grow our fuel from existing infrastructure and like for Phoenix, a city on canals to get enough water, the 10-million gallons of wastewater is recycled saving that amount in fresh-water demand --- per day. With a local source of transportation fuels being created at wastewater plants, we'll never need another gallon of foreign oil.

Rather than our government paying other countries Interest on our debt, let's issue government bonds That go directly to pay down the deficit. Then US citizens Would earn a decent interest rate & pump money into our Economy instead of overseas. Even if it's only 2% Interest, guaranteed government bonds that Reduce the deficit is a win for all Americans!

Macy's keeps attaching a fee for "credit card protection" to my credit card. For the second time I called to take it off my account.

Governor Cuomo is closing the only long term psychiatric Hospital in Brooklyn and sending a little over half of the patients and families to Staten Island. The other 115 beds are being closed forcing the other patients to be kicked out and possibly will be on the trains and the streets of Brooklyn. Kingboro services patients with a long history of being severely and persistently mentally ill, as well as forensinc patients. The South Beach Psychiatric Hospital is over 21/2 hours a way. Not to speak on the 650 employees whom could be jobless as well! Please help! It is Brooklyn who will suffer! The Kingsboro property will be like a shelter instead! Spread the word they are doing it quietly! The streets of Brooklyn will suffer the loss of mental health care. You only have to watch the news to know not having this service in Brooklyn will effect the community adversely. There is an attack on Brooklyn's Mental Health Center and on Brooklyn residents with a long history of being severely and persistently mentally ill. Please support not closing Kingsboro Psychiatric Center and Down State Hospital/ Medical School.There is an attack on the mental health System. There is also a smear Campaign to justify steeling Brooklyn tax dollars and not providing the services to Brooklyn. It doesn't make sense for Brooklyn the biggest borough to send our Mentally ill families to Staten Island 2 1/2 hours away for treatment, they will quicker take to the streets!

Private campaign financing and electioneering, be it from corporations, unions, PACs or individuals, has skewed the nature and function of our government. This petition is to call on the United States to place an outright ban on private show-boat elections and to reform the system to a publicly funded, democratically based system of ballot initiative, petition and election rounds.

Candidates for public office should be limited to an equal amount of campaign funds and limited campaigning time.

Have you seen the videos of World Trade Center building 7 imploding? If not, you owe it to yourself and all those who died on 9/11 to learn what happened to this 47 story skyscraper. There has been a virtual media blackout of this critically important event so you will have to get on the net and do a search for WTC 7. This is not a conspiracy theory, 19 hijackers is a conspiracy theory. This is a building collapse theory.

NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo continually talks about improving education in the state. All the while he and the State Education Department are tearing the public education system apart piece by piece. By adding costly, unnecessary mandates and cutting funding, schools are finding it impossible to provide the "sound basic education" students are entitled to as per the NYS Constitution. The Legislature needs to stand up to Governor Cuomo and State Ed to stop their bully tactics and reinstate local control.

Since the 1980s, corporate deregulation has made it easier for big businesses to merge and buy each other out, causing thousands of layoffs and undermining market competition. Anti-trust legislation would force these mega-corporations to break up into smaller companies, ensuring that none would become 'too big to fall.' The United States government needs to take action if we want to put the economy back on its feet.

High Cost of Health Care

Indefinite detention of US citizens deprives us of due process otherwise established by our Constitution.