H.R.5749
April 22, 2008 01:04 PM (4 months ago) | Overall Score: 5.0 | Replies: 0

Well Michigan isn't far behind you!! We have gone up 30 cents a gallon in one week. Sunday we were 3.54 a gallon.. just had to go into town and found that it was now $3.69 a gallon!!!! Come people (government) wake up, we can't continue this way, people are hurting, businesses are hurting, the job market is almost dead.....we need help here now in America, in your country....

H.R.5749
April 22, 2008 11:04 AM (4 months ago) | Overall Score: 5.0 | Replies: 0

I guess I shouldn't complain about 3.55 a gallon. And at least you had a 3 month savings plan. I have always been a single mom, and struggled paycheck to paycheck. Nothing like this though. My husband works hard and gets good money for our area in which we live, but we to are now living paycheck to paycheck. I just hope that this happens soon, and is a benefit to all.... People in MI are moving out of state right and left, because of our economy and such!

H.R.5749
April 22, 2008 10:04 AM (4 months ago) | Overall Score: 5.0 | Replies: 0

My thoughts on the matter posted at another site: Desperate In Michigan [by Anonymous Citizen on April 22, 2008] Well Folks, this is it. I just called Marvin for my last unemployment check. I do not have a job, nor do I have any interviews lined up for this week or the next. I sent out 17 resumes (just yesterday alone)...good news not one of them sent anything back stating that I was "not what they were looking for"!!!! Keep your fingers crossed. I am so hoping that this extension goes through, even if it doesn't help me, it will help others who are facing the same fate that I am facing right now. Calling the bank to work out something on my loans (personal and vehicle)and get this I only owe one more year on it!!!! We can't afford to move like some of the other posters here on this site, can't afford to do much of anything when gas prices soar by 15 cents a gallon overnight (my current gas prices: 3.55). My heart goes out to the people who have lost their homes, vehicles and such, spent their savings to make ends meet. I have been there. Two and half years ago, my now husband received a promotion/transfer to our current area, it took us 10 months to sell his home, and then we lost our backsides in the deal. It took me 2 months to find work and then I took a 22,000.00 year pay cut just so that I could have a job. We have exhausted all of our savings, I sold my stocks, just to keep us afloat. Now this. Yes, there may be hundreds of thousands of jobs on MI works, but only 5 people in 3 months have reviewed my resume there. I have applied to jobs that I am over qualified for (got turned down--even before I had a chance for an interview). Have been on 3 interviews in the past 6 months, and still no job, and like the rest of you, no extensions. I am telling all this, in hopes that some one with importance will read this, and take this and all of the other letters like this to Washington and get the extension ball rolling....fast!!! This isn't only bad for our economy, but for the health of those in my situation, feeling destitute, depressed, alone....I am fortunate that I have friends and family to lean on, but they are financially tight as well and can't afford to help! With the cost of gas and such, Michigan's tourism should see a significant drop this year, as well as those of us who live here not affording to travel, and where does that leave us, the ones who need work? Out in the cold, literally. Good luck to all, Desperate in Michigan