While congressmen have continuously asked the American people to sacrifice and tighten their belts during this economic crises, while they are cutting funds for education, welfare and social programs in order to reduce the deficit, while they claim that it is OK for Americans to get a cut in their wages they have not done the same thing they are preaching to us. We, the people, are their employers. Being a congressman or woman is supposed to be a service to the nation, an honor not a lucrative career with benefits for life, with perks such as not paying for gas while we have to continue paying outrageous prices at the pump. If we sacrifice, so should they. Request that they show their concern, their patriotism by reducing their salaries by 40%, to get private insurance like we do and pay their share and, no more life-long pensions… if 401K is so great, let them get a 401K plan and remove the pension plan from their benefit.

Since construction has begun on Tennyson St. for street improvements, businesses have been severely affected from a loss of 30 to 60%+ in profits. Some businesses have already been shuttered and several new businesses are in jeopardy. Existing businesses are seeing a large decrease in customer visits and many complaints heard are that it's difficult to find parking, there are street closures almost daily, and that they're not sure if businesses are open during this construction period.

Some 10,000 U.S. Postal Service stations and locations are on the chopping block. The lifeline of small communities to the rest of the world will soon be available only by greatest distances or only on the internet or dependent on media giants for communication and local deliveries. Already, the postal system is not as good as it was in our childhood. Please save it. After all, the written & printed word is important., too.

The decline in union membership in America is not because Americans don’t want to join a Union it’s because the Republicans have made it impossible to start a Union while they systematically take apart viable American Companies to bust their Unions. And, when you understand that the decline in union membership has mirrored the decline in middle class wages, you understand the need for a Constitutional Amendment that protects the rights of workers.

Call to action to pass the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

Making Rockford, Il a Fair Trade Town is about providing a structure and strategy for reaching all sectors in our town, with the message of Fair Trade. The Fair Trade Town criteria includes, forming a steering committee, list all organizations that use and sell Fair Trade products, increase Fair Trade product knowledge and awareness, a local campaign to attract media attention, gain public support, and the Rockford City council passing a resolution supporting Fair Trade We are calling on our community to sign this petition

The attacks with military drones and long distanced, technologically advanced weapons has made it an unfair playing field in the favor of us, the United States of America, and our reaction without thinking to 9/11 that led to other preemptive actions, made our future a war without any definable end, a War On Terror, that only we as citizens and politicians can end by our act of withdrawing our pro-aggressive forces abroad and better use our troops to defend our country at home and assist families in need.

ALL WE THE PEOLPE SHOULD CALL SOMEONE TO CALL SOMEONE HOME TO BARACH OBAMA.

For High Crimes (treason) and Misdemeanors. Failing to defend the Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic. For the murder of US Border Agent

It is time for companies to be held accountable for sending jobs overseas. We need to tell our leaders that it should be more expensive for corporations to outsource jobs. Tax them for EVERY job they move overseas.

Stock market crash? No problem. Banks are making big money from the buying and selling of graduate student loans...arguably the most reliable, highest returning investment in the United States at this moment. While interest rates for savings accounts, mortgages, undergraduate student loans, and virtually everything else in the United States have dropped to all-time lows, freshly-minted graduates of Master's and Doctoral programs--our country's potential future leaders--are being crippled by an average of 8% APR on top of hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. We need to lower the interest rates and give our recent graduates a chance to get off the ground!

Our politicians pass laws that have been bought and paid for by corporate and special interests. If we want a government that is truly "by and for the people" we must separate politics from the obscene amount of money it currently consumes. In order to get a government that cares about the citizens more than the big-money donors, we must radically reform campaign financing.