Your Opinion on Unemployment Extensions

[Gene Clem]

Your opinion counts.

To address the issue of  extending unemployment benefits again,  the Rattle With Us Tea Party has come up with four suggestions. (or possibilities or choices) for you to consider.

 

We would like as many respondents as possible so we can send our message/thoughts/opinions to Senator Colbeck. 

 

We would like to be able to gather this information by tonight to take to his office by tomorrow morning. 

 

Your participation is greatly appreciated.

 

1.       I support no extension of federal unemployment benefits and support maintaining 26 weeks in state unemployment benefits.

2.       I support extending federal unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and support maintaining 26 weeks in state unemployment benefits .

3.       I support extending the federal unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and support dropping state unemployment benefits to 20 weeks in one year.

4.       I support extending the federal unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and support dropping state unemployment after one year on a sliding scale starting at 20 weeks if the state unemployment rate is over 10% and moving down to 6 weeks if the unemployment rate drops to <5%.

[Gene Clem]

Option #1.

 

We have no money!  We cannot raise unemployment insurance on small business again.

 

Unemployment insurance is meant for a bridge between jobs; not as a cure for a collapsed economy such as exists in Michigan.

[Sherry Williams]

#1

Folks need a hand UP not a hand OUT!

[Earl L. Latimer Jr]

#1

[Thomas L Cassidy]

I support option #1.

[robert a novak]

I support #4 and #2 in that order.

Thank you

Robert Novak

[Dennis Weber]

I support choice #1.

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[Sandra L. Nicholson]

I don't understand how there can be any choice other than the first.  The federal government is broke and so is Michigan.  How can we continue to spend money we don't have.  I wish someone would face up to the facts.

[David A. Woodman]

#1 - deficit spending HAS to stop - on the Federal level, on the State level, and on the personal level.  I have no second choice.

[Van Cliburn Mensinger]

I would like to see no extension - 26 weeks sound OK.

[Timothy Brandys]

#1

[Diane Carl]

4

[Dick Thompson]

If limited to this listing, I support #1.

I support no extension of unemployment benefits.  However, I think that all unemployment benefits should decrease each month after 6 months of full benefit.  After six months, each additional month should be 95% of the last month's unemployment benefit.  After 42 months (yes, that’s three years with a reducing benefit after a full 6 months at full benefit) the benefit would be 16% of the original benefit, and it is time to get back to work.  I like a little incentive with a lot of compassion.