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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Welfare, Medicaid and Social Services</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/14.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/288011.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:53:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:288011</guid><dc:creator>victor88</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/288011.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=288011</wfw:commentRss><description>As a school employee you will be able to get so much from this. I am glad that they are doing this reform here. This will help the employees so much here. Keep up the good work. &lt;a style="visibility:hidden;"&gt;Canadian mortgages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/287969.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:46:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:287969</guid><dc:creator>bill35</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/287969.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=287969</wfw:commentRss><description>I think the reform is so important to happen. So much will come with this reform. The options are endless with this. &lt;a style="visibility:hidden;"&gt;big rig accident lawyers orlando&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278642.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:33:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278642</guid><dc:creator>moveover007</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278642.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278642</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;WELL THE FUTURE is HERE. BIG 20 X 20 yard TV screen in ALL classroom in Michigan(America) . All children learn the same subject . langauge(children in Egyt 7 years old learn french, english and spanish) all classes are from 9-4PM with gym. swim etc..&amp;nbsp; ON saturday&amp;nbsp; tour to science centers ,museum , harbor, parks , children go green (gardeing) etc...There will be less homework Children mark there card(sheet) and will be graded by the &amp;quot;machine(like the votersbox on electionday)NO longer will there be favorish, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The&amp;quot; Teacher&amp;quot; basicly have over side.....so no nedd for endless &amp;quot;homework for the teacher or parents)..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HINT for the SCHOOL replace Light bulbs with the &amp;quot;NEW(been out for over tenyears )save MONEY 5-7 years on and used less Energy...NO heat in april..Open windows (clean) let the sunshine in.Free healthcare for teacher that stay under 150 puonds of bodyweigth&amp;gt; NO more cupcakes or birthday cakes (Only fresh FOOD) also in cafeteria.etc&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278641.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:19:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278641</guid><dc:creator>moveover007</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278641.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278641</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;WE ARE ALL EQUALL HA HA HA..CHARTERSCHOOLS over 250 in michigan... HOMESCHOOLING&amp;nbsp; ...teacher like all workers &amp;quot;work to 67 years of age and then you can retire..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278640.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:16:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278640</guid><dc:creator>moveover007</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278640.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278640</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;CUT THE TEACHERS LOOSE..then can have there &amp;quot;OWN&amp;quot; retirement and healths plans.We have the finaincial instituts that are more then happy to take there Money and invest..at the least a OLDFashion &amp;quot;savings acount&amp;quot; will do the trick..And national health insurance for all.....so the teacher wont have to pay for other poeple...plus eating healthy ..go green. plant a garden.etc.walk .will make you &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; from Healthcare(reallySICKCARE).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278639.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:10:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278639</guid><dc:creator>moveover007</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278639.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278639</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Well DETROIT &amp;quot;HAD&amp;quot; 150 teachers on there payroll...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3500 harleydavid Motorcylce in a warehouse!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;kid had no book for six weeks...they where in the warehouse(payed for rent and storage) but couldnot find a &amp;quot;way&amp;#39; to bring them to the schools? And you call &amp;quot;that&amp;quot;smart teachers!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278131.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:20:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278131</guid><dc:creator>FreeSpeaker</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278131.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278131</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/Themes/leanandgreen/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;ehill127:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its time to take back our Goverment&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Take back our government from whom?&amp;nbsp; The idiots you elected, so you can hand it over to a new batch of idiots you elect?&amp;nbsp; How constructive ...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278130.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:03:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278130</guid><dc:creator>jercommm</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278130.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278130</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;All local, state and federal employees stick together when it comes to wages and benefits, which are far more then the private sector. They have become leeches and if it does not change soon, we will become another Greece.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Public Schools are the worst of the lot because of the M.E.A. We need to get rid of all unions and start over.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278129.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:03:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278129</guid><dc:creator>iwillnotforget</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278129.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278129</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;a common citizen would get prison time for robbing people blind in the middle of the night.&amp;nbsp; michigan state government leaders NEED TO GO!&amp;nbsp; they are incompetent and crooks!&amp;nbsp; voting in favor of this bill will seal those criminals&amp;#39; fate.&amp;nbsp; VOTE THEM ALL OUT&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; goodbye jenny and take your friends with you.&amp;nbsp; your a two-faced liar that couldn&amp;#39;t be worthy of sitting on any court seat except if you had a defense lawyer.&amp;nbsp; WORKERS UNITE AND DEMAND A NEW PARTTIME MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278128.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 20:45:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278128</guid><dc:creator>ehill127</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278128.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278128</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Its time to take back our Goverment &amp;nbsp; cant wait for the election, cause thats when my vote counts so I will say my good byes now to all who voted&amp;nbsp;for this bill .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278127.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:04:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278127</guid><dc:creator>public_ed_employed</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278127.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278127</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;A 3% mandatory increase to my retirement to pay for retiree&amp;#39;s healthcare?&amp;nbsp; So I&amp;#39;ve had my pay frozen, given furlough days, and now you are charging me 3% for someone else&amp;#39;s healhcare?&amp;nbsp; Someone give me a reason to stay working for an industry that is committing premeditated suicide?&amp;nbsp; Schools don&amp;#39;t need more money, they need better administrators and teachers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278118.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:04:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278118</guid><dc:creator>BusDriver1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278118.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278118</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;they need to meet to be able to compromise on the bill why would they cancell a meeting and not work on this important subject, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278115.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 11:14:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278115</guid><dc:creator>danmadro</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278115.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278115</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;m a member of MIP system and contributed over $ 140,000.00 to be able to get 3% raises when I retire.Now they want to eliminate that!!! So what did I pay the money for if I will be treated same as BASIC retire that did not contributed any money???!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278096.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 01:24:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278096</guid><dc:creator>Another Educated Voter</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278096.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278096</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Excellent post to our ELECTED representatives.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;m glad to see&amp;nbsp;someone else&amp;nbsp;impatient with the &amp;#39;delaying, debating and obfuscating&amp;#39; when what should be happening is negotiating and compromising.&amp;nbsp; Maybe our elected representatives could benefit from some professional development requirements.&amp;nbsp; I know there are community college classes in this state that teach negotiation, for example.&amp;nbsp;(no&amp;nbsp;degree required; they are open entrance, low tuition, great teachers!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278089.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 22:56:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278089</guid><dc:creator>educated voter</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278089.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=14&amp;PostID=278089</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;To all of our ELECTED representatives:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For whom do you &amp;quot;work&amp;quot;?&amp;nbsp; Is it your party?&amp;nbsp; Your district&amp;#39;s own special needs?&amp;nbsp; The &amp;quot;Committee to Re-elect&amp;quot; you?&amp;nbsp; Perhaps your arrogance has made you forget that your real job is to make the great state of Michigan the best it can be!&amp;nbsp; Perhaps you have forgotten the meaning of &amp;quot;deadline&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; and how it is YOUR responsibility to meet deadlines so that private citizens can create viable&amp;nbsp;school operational&amp;nbsp;budgets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By delaying, debating, and obfuscating the budgetary issues that confront public education and pointing fingers at your opposing party, you alone are responsible for the current situation.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why not set a good example?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Your current salary&amp;nbsp;(without the hiring requirement of owning a 4 year degree) is definitely higher than the pay of&amp;nbsp;most teachers who have&amp;nbsp;6 year degrees.&amp;nbsp; You currently are grandfathered in to receive lifetime health care.&amp;nbsp; You &amp;quot;receive&amp;quot; pay increases because you chose to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; vote against them.&amp;nbsp; Many of you could probably &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not pass&lt;/span&gt; the state-mandated high school tests or score as high as many teachers did&amp;nbsp; on the ACT or SAT in order to attend top universities.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How about letting teaches and/or administrators determine YOUR operating budget so we can show you how to get things done much more efficiently?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or--how about you doing what you are so handsomely paid to do:&amp;nbsp; find a way to solve a state budgetary problem and let students and all citizens get on with some real business--the business of learning!&lt;/p&gt;
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