Senate’s Health Care Repeal: You Pay More, You Get Less and the Wealthy Get Big Tax Breaks The Senate’s repeal bill makes health care so much worse for so many people in so many ways, all to give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and big corporations, that it simply can’t be fixed. People have rejected repeal. Instead of cutting backroom deals, Republican Senators should start working with Democrats to keep what works and fix what doesn’t in the current law. You pay more and get less - that’s the Senate health care repeal bill. It makes health care worse for everyone - it raises costs, cuts coverage, weakens vital protections and ends Medicaid as we know it.

Our state currently faces a $1B shortfall in our transportation budget. The current mood seems to favor toll roads, but we would argue that legalizing marijuana, and taxing it appropriately, would provide far more income to the state among the numerous other benefits that legalization would bring. One only needs to look to legal states that are benefiting from the novelty tourism, the reduction in opiate use and related deaths, the reduction in drug related crimes and the massive influx of money and jobs associated with this new industry. If we do it now, we can ride the wave of novelty and beat states like Illinois and Minnesota to the punch. If we are too late, we will lose out on BILLIONS of dollars, if not more.

Want our voice to be heard that high auto insurance in Michigan won't be tolerated anymore! Tired of High Insurance Rates Vs other states being as low as $30.00 per month.

I am starting this petition because naively, I believed that old growth was sacred and that the forest service would never build roads or log in such a precious place. At a recent field trip looking at a huge logging project in Western Montana, I asked the economist if they would build roads through old growth. He said yes without batting an eye. I also discovered that they are running roads in old growth and a known Goshawk nesting sight in another project. I thought the Forest Service was a steward of the forest. I thought they wanted to care for it and protect it. But instead, the Montana forests are forced to produce board feet based on logging mandates made by politicians and timber lobbyists. So they must get it in any and every way possible which includes destroying old growth.

Regarding: William Lyon Mackenzie King (WLMK): From the Canadian Encyclopedia: "Worst of all, at least from the point of those Jews desperate to get out of Nazi-infested Europe, anti-Semitism had permeated into the upper levels of the Canadian government. While Prime Minister King was worrying that Jewish immigration would "pollute" Canada's bloodstream, his government was ensuring that no more would be coming. It is no surprise therefore that Canada had by far the worst record of any Western or immigration country in providing sanctuary to the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s A year or so ago, I approached a few of Canada's most respected historians. All had all written books about WLMK. They all agreed that WLMK should be judged, not by the standards of today BUT, by the standards of his time. In view of the fact that the Canada has decided to discredit Hector-Louis Langevin, it would be the height of hypocrisy if they did not now do the same with WLMK.

Time for independance from Tyrany.

Despite Costco's commitment to end the use of cruel gestation crates by 2017, a recent open rescue investigation into a Costco supplier revealed most mother pigs trapped in tiny gestation crates, unable to assist as their babies were slowly dying. Furthermore, activists found dying baby pigs piled up inside crowded farrowing crates, covered in blood and excrement, and up to 1/3 of them will die before even reaching slaughter. Shockingly, piglets whose mothers are mutilated by years of abuse are sometimes forced to drink their mother's blood in order to survive.

I waited two years for affordable senior housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most expensive rental markets in the country, where most housing wait lists have been closed for years. We love our well-maintained homes and safe community. But the President's proposed deep cuts to HUD and USDA housing programs would mean rent and utility increases immediately, less money for property maintenance, and even longer waits for future affordable housing. We need more affordable housing, not less. Tell Congress to stop these proposed cuts and fully fund affordable housing programs now.

The state of Texas must not send data requested by the Trump administration to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

The reason this is important is because I know I'm not the only one witnessing the attempt to cover up Trump's corruption. If you see what is obvious please sign this petition.

Social Action Linking Together (SALT), a faith-based advocacy group of more than 1200 members, is opposed to the death penalty primarily because it advances vengeance rather than justice. SALT is in solidarity with Pope Francis on this matter of opposing the death penalty, and, in opposing the death penalty, we embrace the sound moral reasoning of Pope Francis, which you will find below. In a message released in June 2016, Pope Francis made a statement regarding the death penalty that includes these comments: 1) “It (the death penalty) does not render justice to victims, but instead fosters vengeance.” 2) “It is an offense to the inviolability of life and to the dignity of the human person; it likewise contradicts God’s plan for individuals and society, and his merciful justice.” 3) “Punishment for its own sake, without room for hope, is a form of torture, not of punishment.” 4) Pope Francis also noted that rendering justice “does not mean seeking punishment for its own sake, but ensuring that the basic purpose of all punishment is the rehabilitation of the offender.” 5) Francis, in addition, made clear that the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” applies both for the innocent and to the guilty…”

I met my husband two years ago in an FB singles group. I had no intention of ever dating again as I had been through a terrible divorce. We talked and became friends and then decided to meet. He told me he had a 6-year-old daughter and then dropped a bombshell. He couldn't see her regularly because his ex-wife accused him of molesting her. I was stunned and of course thought there's no way I can continue even a friendship with this man. Then, I thought, first of all, a pedophile doesn't announce he's a pedophile. I decided I wanted to meet his daughter and see them interact. One time seeing this little girl do everything she could to get away from her mom and run to her dad and jump in his arms was all I needed to see. Shortly after, there was a court date for him to try and get more time and I decided to put his paperwork together. I was appalled at the things I read. His daughter had NEVER been taken to a doctor, DCFS didn't do an investigation - they turned it over to law enforcement - and he was interrogated until they found out that the day he supposedly "molested" his daughter he was with numerous people, none that were spoken to about the incident. He sold everything he had to fight for this little girl and to this day he still does. He agreed to go to counseling, his daughter and ex also agreed so that they could work towards a 50/50 schedule. He committed his end; his daughter hasn't been to counseling for 6 months and I doubt his ex has gone once. A person doesn't become a pedophile once and then stop. I have three older children, all who love my husband, all who are comfortable with him and support him. We now have a granddaughter with whom he is amazing. For two years I've watched this woman do everything she can to keep this little girl from her dad. I watched her work the system, and I've watched the system enable her. This little girl loves her dad and should be allowed to be with him, he should not have to live with the stigma of being a predator, of having to sell everything he owns in order to see her. He shouldn't have letters written to his employer telling them he's a pedophile when the case against him has been closed for over 3 years now. Today is the 4th of July; if the court petition had been followed we would have been able to have his daughter on the 3rd at 6 pm until the 5th at 7 pm; instead, we get her from 12-6 and are unable to do anything because that's how her mom dictates it. This is wrong and it needs to be stopped. She should be charged and any woman who does these kinds of things should be charged.