There are better ways to save money on energy without taking away our choice of light bulbs. Support H.R. 91 Better Use of Light Bulbs Act or "BULB Act". Stop the ban on incandescent light bulbs that favors more expensive, mercury toxin-filled, health damaging fluorescent bulbs. H.R.6, that imposes the ban, has no health exemption for people who suffer clinically verified physical distress from fluorescent.

They simply are not doing their job, so they should be fired. But the only ones in authority to do that are the people: us.

America's huge deficits are not only financial; we have enormous backlogs of unattended infrastructure that hold back modern transportation, energy production, water and power distribution, and a host of other work that is essential for American businesses and workers to succeed in world competition; Ever since the Bush/Cheney economic policy - borrow and spend, radically reduce essential revenues even during their trillion-dollar unprovoked military aggression - produced the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, the private sector has fallen far behind the demand for living-wage jobs; Millions of people need and want jobs, but are out of work now and many have been out of work for years even as recent graduates are entering the job market and finding little prospect for hope;

Members of Congress allow themselves to enact laws that make congress a privileged class. This should not be constitutional. We should amend the constitution to insure that congress does not enhance the standing of it's members excluding the citizenry, nor damage the standing of the citizenry while making themselves immune to that damage.

This funding is intended to conduct medical research on illnesses associated to the Gulf War. Our House of Representatives sent a bill to Senate that allowed 10 million dollars for research and treatment for our veterans. Please act now to get our Senators to pass this funding for our veterans' health issues caused by the war in Iraq.

Currently the FDA is mostly funded by application fees submitted by big pharmaceutical corporations for approval of their newest drugs. Its top tier officials are also former execs from these same companies. The FDA operates autonomously with no accountability to any branch of government, yet they're responsible for our public health. Time for reform!

The Citizens United case has crushed true democracy. Public financing of political campaigns is needed to stop corporations from buying their personal congressional representatives in both the House and the Senate

Federal and State governments are turning to Medicaid for cuts in the very cost-saving community living programs and these cuts would force people with disabilities and the elderly into more expensive institutions.

Our politicians have been in the pocket of corporations and large contributors being unduly influenced by them when they are elected to serve the people. By having only publicly funded elections and making all lobbying with money or gifts illegal, we can influence what our elected officials do in congress and they can listen to us and be influenced by We the People and not their dollar contributors.

This petition has to do with getting rid of insurance companies handling health care. It is time that we join the rest of the developed world in providing health care for all individuals who are citizens or legal tax paying residents of this country with adequate health care that will be covered by any hospital or doctor. It is time that we look at health care as we do police protection and public education. It should be funded by taxes instead of premiums to insurance companies. Everyone should have opportunities for the same kind of care. Doctors and hospitals should not have the right to refuse to care for you because of how your health care is covered. There would no longer be an issue of remaining in your job because of the health care benefits that are provided. You would not lose coverage because you lost your job.

A cost-free program to open up good jobs - no subsidy required from the government - by allowing people who would retire except for the lack of health insurance to buy into Medicare, paying a fair price similar to what they would pay for COBRA insurance, but without the 18-month limitation. The only requirement is that they retire from their current job. No "shovel-ready" requirement - this could be done right now and some good jobs would become available almost immediately.

We need to provide a livable wage to the people in this state. Big corporations are making record profits and hoarding all of it except for a select few. Having a tiered minimum wage will stimulate the economy and help level out the playing field for small businesses.