Michigan Votes Forum

Government employee. Yeah, big suprise!

boy, i sure hope you're wrong about dying before this extension gets in the mail system! My last call was a week ago.....

Too much tourism at risk, BAD idea for PLANET. We have a responsibility.

Michigan would be wise to realize that. We produced weapons as a solution to WWII. We can produce green solutions to combat global warming. It's Michigan's chance to recover. Take it BEFORE someone else does. Becasue they will.

Thank goodness. Channel 8 said it it was the darkest they'd ever seen it during the day there. EVER. HMMMMM???????????????/

Wow, you are cool! I lost nothing. The BOTTOM line is the environmentalists are preventing our country from using our own resources and the US from being self-sufficient. Your impressive rhetoric and previous employment does not change this. Your arrogance does not help the matter. Your presence on this site stirring the pot, is a waste of time to those who use it as a resource.

You have it wrong about the environmentalists. And you lost the argument at the outset, by using them as your demagogue's target. My industrial experience is very pertinent to this discussion. The fact is, when the prospect for profits being made is good, what you call "tree-huggers" will not halt exploitation of resources. They will, however, keep pressure on to make sure the exploitation is done in a safe and sane way, so as to minimize negative impacts of the work. I happen to believe -- from real experience -- that oil and gas exploration can proceed virtually anywhere without unduly imperiling the environment. For this, you can thank, rather than curse the environmentalists. If politicians have failed to find the right balance between insistence that it is unwise to foul our nest and the desirability of exploiting natural resources, your beef is with the politicians you elected to office to represent the public's best interest. Given the choice between a glut of cheap oil on the market or clean, potable water (for pertinent example), rational people invariably choose the latter. They have a long range view. You have stated your position; I have stated mine. Your insistence in protracting the debate brings to mind these wonderful words: "Your presence on this site stirring the pot, is a waste of time to those who use it as a resource."

Their definition of progress and that of those who worship "the market" are different. I think we can have a stable economy and not SCREW the next generation, too.

This is on the Mich gov site The Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation bill has been signed into law; the Agency is in the process of individually notifying all potentially eligible customers by mail with instructions on how to apply. Please allow 7 to 10 business days for this process to occur before calling to inquire about the extension. I am hoping those of us that are eligible, will get our apps in the mail SOON! Sarah

...your benefits ran out end of last year, went several months without work, but then finally found a job; do you still get to collect for all that time you weren't working? Although I finally found a job, my finances are still in shambles and it seems unfair to be penalized for finding a job, since if this was passed just a few months ago, I would have undoubtedly received retroactive benefits. If anyone knows, please post.

Make it a welfare program

From my understanding if you are currently working you do not qualify for the unemployment benefits that are extended. The funds are not backpaid; however, are distributed from the end of July forward.

So...by all of the reports, most of Michigan's unemployed shall begin receiving the 13 week extension by the end of July beginning of August. What are all the unemployed of Michigan going to do when the fed. extension runs out??? The prospect of jobs in Michigan is still abysmal!!I'm wondering what the politicians of Michigan propose....as the problems in Michigan are far from over.

You sound like you work for the government. No doubt, you are writing these comments on company time. Thanks for contributing to the problem!

You make enough utterly stupid assumptions and guesses that you have become the prime laughingstock on this site of late. Here’s your latest example: >You sound like you work for the government. No doubt, you are writing these comments on company time. Thanks for contributing to the problem!< Dunce. You couldn’t be more wrong. I work in the private sector, as I have for nearly all my working life except for a four year hitch in the US armed forces long ago. Right now, I happen to be self-employed, paying all the taxes and absorbing all the other headaches that go along with it. But I’m not whining or complaining. I also post here on my own time, using the computer that I bought and paid for with money earned by my own labor and nobody else’s. How about you? Oh, and by the way, I don’t “sound” like anything here. This is a writing and reading only outlet for my views. No sound. What you hear must be the buzzing in your tnfoil hat. You started this discussion by making the moronic statement that tree-huggers, as you derisively call them, have stopped oil and gas drilling in the United States. The truth is, they haven’t. I know this from the personal experience of having worked for a decade in the petro exploration industry, in Michigan, when the last really great drilling boom swept the state in the 1970s and into the 1980s. Yes, the environmentalists were there, and perhaps wanted to stop the activity, but they didn’t. What came of their efforts though, was the evolution of procedures, work methods and machinery that made oil and gas development safer for the natural environment where the work takes place. As a result of the pressure put on by people you disdainfully call tree-huggers, I am quite confident that oil and gas drilling today can be done just about anywhere without undue environmental destruction and degradation. That, in my view is far from a setback for our society, or for the oil business. It is serious and important progress. That last great oil boom in Michigan tapered off to near dormancy when the supply of attractive drilling prospects pretty well dried up. Understand that is a somewhat fluid thing, based both on market forces, like the price of oil, and faith in the ability of geologists to decipher nature’s underground secrets. Tree-hugging has nothing to do with it. Lately it looks like rising crude oil prices may be helping to stimulate Michigan’s oil industry. That is good news, both from the national oil supply perspective – if new oil exploration is successful in opening new fields – and from the employment perspective. Heaven knows, Michigan sure can use some job-producing enterprise. The oil industry is not especially labor intensive, but when there is significant ongoing exploration and development activity it does provide a fair number of jobs and decent livings for people who are willing to work. That’s a good thing, especially when the work can be and is done in a way that respects and protects other vital natural resources, like groundwater. And for the latter, you might want to thank your local oilman and local tree-hugger alike. Both have played significant roles in making it possible and making it happen.

I still laugh everytime I read "dirty Marvin call" LOL...!

Drilling means tens of thousands of new good paying jobs here in the US at a time when jobs are scarce. We must drill now!

Pristine, my ass.

about global warming.

perhaps they beat them. How else do they brainwash them like this. It's amazing.

Leave. You have no purpose here. If you would like to meet in person and put your money where you mouth is, I would welcome the opportunity to rid some of my stress. Just let me know when/where.

The Moron now tries to run me off the site by telling me I have no business here, and threatening me. I quake and shake. But I ain't going away. What this is all about is, I had the audacity to suggest that "tree-huggers," whom the Moron evidently despises, are preferable to the rape-and-run crowd. Further, I had the audacity to disagree with the claim, based on fact verified by my own personal experience, that environmentalists have halted oil and gas drilling. My opinions are based in fact. I am all for oil and gas drilling, which I believe could come back to life as a very active industry in Michigan if crude oil prices and wellhead prices for natural gas stay high, and if attractive geological prospects are detected by industry scientists. Lots of ifs, virtually none of them involving environmentalists. In fact, it is my opinion that pressure put on by so-called tree-huggers has brought about safer and cleaner oil exploitation work methods. Both factions -- industry and environmentalists -- have played significant roles in bringing this about, and the general public has benefitted, in my opinion. As I've written before here, cheap oil is no bargain if it comes at the expense of reducing or threatening our potable water supply. Only morons or whacked out ideologues could reject that idea. And even if morons and whacked out ideologues are made uncomfortable by my presence here, I'm unlikely to go away. Breathe clean air. Drink clean water. Have a nice day. All sensible things to do.

All Mr. Hignite was saying is that we got in this trouble by letting politicians be your mommy and savior. Even if they extend these so called benefits for a year all it's going to do is prolong the agony. If they extend them they will raise taxes on the few businesses that are left. This will in turn run more of them out and put more folks out of work. The government lackeys that you are begging to help you are going to have you under their thumb for a long time. Cut all taxes in half and watch jobs flock to this state. P.S. To all you folks that say it's never been this bad...During the carter years unemployment was 12%. Mortgages were 10 to 14% and lots more folks were losing their homes. We must have very short memories because half of the government indoctrinated, government dependant folks in this country are going to vote for something that's going to make today and the carter years look like a picnic. You ain't gonna like all that hope and change when it gets here. Wake up sheepl, Mr. Hignite is going to be V.P. to the Cajun and we will be kicking booty in no time. PSS. A question to the socialists. If you believe that by taxing cigarettes you will get less smoking, why don't you believe that by taxing business that you will get less of it????

The union is a socialist institution. The ruether boys went to moscow to learn how to set one up. In a socialist or communist set up you have the ruling class and then the serfs or werkers. The union bosses are the ruling class and have been in bed with the dems/socialist forever. The werkers are lenins usefull idiots, they will do whatever the union bosses tell them to because they have been indoctrinated into the wealth envy and are taught to hate the rich. Problem is that the rich own the businesses, pay the union bosses so that they run their business and the werkers are told that these crooks are looking out for them. I can't believe that b. husein obama can come here, talk about raising cafe ratings to 45 mpg, won't drill for oil and are going to put you out of business and the union bosses endorse this empty suit the next day.

Go back to school, learn proper grammer, spelling and language skills and your situation will improve quickly.

I'm waiting for my Unemployment extension application in the mail. I called and they said they started sending them this week. I asked if I could just fill one out online. Of course, I was told, no, you have to just wait for it to come in the mail. If anyone has received theirs, I'd love to know. I hope they're not just saying they have already been sending them out. Thanks, Sarah

Im waiting just like you the said they started monday sending them out and here it is almost monday again and still no application

i havent receive mine neither i from detroit i need this extension to happen faster i will let you know as soon as i recieve mine

i havent receive mine neither i from detroit i need this extension to happen faster i will let you know as soon as i recieve mine

No application yet i checking my mail box everyday i need my money now when i recieve the application yet i will yet ya know

I actually received mine on July 12th and have to begin calling Marvin the week of the 20th; you just fill out the form and mail it and you can go online to tell them if you want direct deposit or mail etc. and also have to go into Michigan work like always. Hope this helps.

Still no application in my mail today :( Sarah

i call them and ask they said they start sending out last tuesday and that everyone will receive the application no later then the july 21

on the porch and soon the government will send you some of our money. Remember, they don't have any. The only money they can "give" you is money that they steal from us.

They just need to steal more from the productive first. It takes time you know. Go take a little nap and the mailman will be there when you get up. Don't forget to vote for mr. hope and change on november 5th

i recieve my application today in i filled the paper out in send it back in today

I worked hard for 45 years and have MORE than paid my dues! This is the one and only time I have needed Unemployment benefits, thru no fault of my own!

I can't help but wonder what some of you are proposing to do "if" your unemployment extension runs out and you still have not been able to find employment. What are your plans to continue surviving in the future? I'm a Michigan Refugee that had to run from the state with only the shirt on my back and what little could be packed in the car. I'm managing to usrvive where I landed...but my thoughts often drift back to home and my fellow Michiganders that I left behind.

I got my application today! I have been on this site for months now and have been putting all the updates that I got from Congress and other sites regarding the Unemployment extensions. Thank you to all of you that have been so helpful and polite. For those of us that have been struggling, filling out applications, sending resumes online, have worked hard all of our lives, paid taxes, and have still not found work.. God help us all. At least this extension will bide us a little more time. I still have faith that the Michigan economy will pick up... eventually. For those of you that have been rude and think some of us haven't tried our hardest to get ANY job that's available.. well, I can't say what I want to say, but I won't be back to this site again. For those of you that have families and have known the struggle.. keep the faith and don't ever give up. Sarah

Another 13 weeks on the government dole. You are so special. I know that all of us still working are so happy that you will be getting some of our money. Good Luck