As the top 1% decides public policy for the bottom 99%, the Middle Class is being squeezed dry. Working Americans are being pitted against other working Americans in the hope no one will notice where the real problem stems from. It's time we all stand united for the 99%.

The present property tax concept is not fair because the local tax burden is not the same for every body. Our State Constitution stipulates that a taxpayer class, such as property taxes, shall have the same tax burden. But our present property tax concept does not follow the intent of our State Constitution

Andrea Lani has been an employee in good standing with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection since 1999. On March 29, she testified before a legislative committee, warning about the risks of Governor Paul LePage's efforts to weaken protections for the chemical BPA, which has been linked to developmental problems in kids, heart disease, and cancer. In retaliation, Andrea was demoted and replaced by a far less qualified individual who had been hired in January for an entry-level clerical position.

Based of an email floating around the internet. A friend pointed out we should actually start a petition with this. I agree. If you like the sentiment, sign it.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. I propose congressional reform to to insure that all citizens are, indeed, created equal.

Nearly 14 million American adults are bullied in the workplace, and millions more experience the degrading effects of witnessing mistreatment. Please sign the petition to sponsor or co-sponsor an anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill when introduced in Pennsylvania and support the bill through the legislative process.

After weeks of intense pressure from the Obama Administration and from Schneiderman’s fellow attorneys general to support a broad settlement that would let the big banks off easy for the questionable lending practices that caused our country’s housing crisis, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was removed from a committee of state attorneys general investigating the banking industry’s mortgage abuses. Now Schneiderman is preparing to investigate Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and other major financial institutions for their misconduct in the mortgage markets.

With the ongoing privatisation of the university system in the UK and the scrapping of EMA, students and young people are gathering in London on November the 9th to protest. Nottingham students will need transportation that should be the responsibility of their Union to provide. More details of the protest can be found here: http://anticuts.com/2011/09/22/nus-officially-supports-november-9th-national-demonstration/ (We need more than 50 signatures- so please keep signing)

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, who would represent the American citizenry without regard for personal gain nor in making their service a long term career position. Instead, those serving have created safety nets for themselves that average americans are not entitled to such as pay increases, a separate health care system for themselves, tenured pension pay, and they have established rules to protect themselves from the "everyday" laws imposed on all citizens. They should derive no greater benefit from service than that delivered to American citizens by the government.

America has an addiction to incarceration with nearly 25 percent of the world's prisoners. This has drained government resources and destroyed the family structure. It is time for America to be smart on crime since the tough on crime tactics has proven to be very costly revenge.

Last year the Supreme Court ruled corporations could spend billioms on political campaigns. Soon they will have bought enough politicans to control Comgress; to win both general AND primary elections; and therefore to "select" the candidates. They will then have complete control of "our" government, The result---A government of, by, and for the corporations.

Spending needs to stop on agricultural subsidies, corporate welfare, and tax credits for favored industries. Excessive Government spending reduces labor force participation, increases unemployment, and reduces productivity. Agricultural subsidies is when the government funds farmers. They give crop incentives and control cost. Corporate welfare is basically financial aide for large corporations. This including three major business benefits that come in the forms of special tax breaks, trade policies, and spending programs. Tax breaks are special tax benefits for certain industries/situations. Trade policies regulate the direction and regulation of trade throughout the world. Spending programs are now 125 separate programs to subsidies to particular industries and firms and that the price tag exceeds $85 billion per year. Cutting funding will force businesses to get off their annual goal of $85 billion a year. Being able to trade for supplies while creating jobs to create different new cheaper products. This will also cut the amount of taxes that have been heightened because of these expenditures. Even though the ideals in Washington states that the United States needs an even closer alliance between business and politics, the reality is that both government and the marketplace would work better if they kept a healthy distance from each other. Right now the government is almost 15 trillion dollars in debt. This money is borrowed from other countries. If something doesn't change everyone in America will learn this the hard way.