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1 posted on 07/04/2012 9:22:32 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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I demand 8 weeks Maui ever year!!!


2 posted on 07/04/2012 9:23:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We must get down on our knees each day and thank God that McCain/Palin didn't win in '08. Right?)
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Because all those "advanced" countries are doing s-o-o-o well!


3 posted on 07/04/2012 9:28:43 PM PDT by Bratch
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The last vacation I took was in 1985, I took my wife and our two young kids for two weeks in the Outer Banks.

meh

I'm the odd one out but I don't like vacations.

4 posted on 07/04/2012 9:41:14 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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They’ll probably propose you pay a tax for not taking a vacation; and make your employer match it for letting you work.


5 posted on 07/04/2012 9:44:40 PM PDT by skully (06/28/2012 : The banner no longer yet waves....Gadsden DTOM)
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Does anyone in the so-called “intelligentsia” read newspapers or on-line news? Europe isn't exactly doing a bang-up job, do we really want to imitate them?
6 posted on 07/04/2012 9:45:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father, GunnerySgt/Commo Chief, USMC 1943-65)
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France gets a month paid, too.
Ubama must love this idea. After all, he only wants to make America as great as... France.


8 posted on 07/04/2012 9:52:15 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Do you have to have a job to be eligible for the vacation pay?


9 posted on 07/04/2012 9:57:20 PM PDT by funfan
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National vacation policy will be Obama’s October surprise.

Headline: Obama announces executive order guaranteeing all Americans four weeks of paid vacation. If citizens get sick during the vacation, they may request more time off.


10 posted on 07/04/2012 9:57:51 PM PDT by garjog
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What I need is a vacation from liberal socialism.

All my stress would go away.


12 posted on 07/04/2012 10:09:53 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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“There’s your American exceptionalism.”

Hence, productivity.


13 posted on 07/04/2012 10:14:18 PM PDT by Puckster
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Do these people have any idea how badly a sleep schedule could be ruined by having that much time off in a row?

Heck, I’d be fine with two weeks, not consecutively, one week paid and one week not paid, after I’ve been with a company for a few years.


14 posted on 07/04/2012 10:28:12 PM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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I don’t see anything wrong with that! All we have to do is make a wish and King 0bama will give it to us! Look how well it has worked out for the Euroweenies!!


15 posted on 07/04/2012 10:45:34 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Oh sure. And the wonderful state of the European economies gives us perfect justification for adopting another socialist policy that is bound to reap such magnificent benefits...

Hey! I'm self-employed! If I don't give myself a vacation, should I strike myself? With what? How many times?

Every.... single.... DAY!!! It just gets worse and worse. I am starting to get the feeling that America's socialism in the years to come may actually end up being worse, longer lasting, and more difficult to end than the failed disastrous misadventure that was the former Soviet Union.

The Russians imposed Socialism on themselves in blood and by brute force. That system failed the legitimacy test from the very beginning. The Socialism that America is imposing on itself, is slick and oily. It's a long slow seduction that promises everything for the hedonist, an abandonment of all responsibility, and largess for all -- plus medical and dental.

Is it any wonder that so many people are just giving up and grabbing what they can, while they can? I mean, most of these people can do some math. Number of producers falling, number of parasites rising -- sooner or later the parasites are going to kill the host. They know this, everyone knows this, Obama and Pelosi have to know this... yet why in the name of all that is HOLY are they still trying to sign MORE people onto foodstamps, plus Obamacare, and now mandate a vacation policy that is bound to utterly destroy any number of marginally stable, it not prosperous businesses?

Crazy Eddie! That's what it is. In Larry Niven's "Mote in God's Eye" he talked about the guy.

I'm cutting a bit... "We will call him Crazy Eddie, if you like. He is a... he like me, an idiot savant tinker, sometimes. Always he does the wrong things for excellent reasons. He does the same things over and over, and they always bring disaster, and he never learns."

... "When a city has grown so overlarge and crowded that it is in immediate danger of collapse... when food and clean water flow into the city at a rate just sufficient to feed every mouth, and every hand must work constantly to keep it that way... when all transportation is involved in moving vital supplies, and none is left over to move people out of the city should the need arise... then it is that Crazy Eddie leads the movers of garbage out on strike for better working conditions."

And I thought this was fiction...

18 posted on 07/05/2012 1:12:07 AM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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National Lampoon’s Obamaland Vacation?

Aunt Edna was ahead of her time! And the dog, too.


20 posted on 07/05/2012 1:44:10 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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This guy is not paying attention,Obama beat him to it,Obama has a National Vacation Policy,99 weeks of paid Vacation,you then get Disability for Life


22 posted on 07/05/2012 3:02:15 AM PDT by ballplayer
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I was in Germany some time back and talked to several Germans. I said it must be nice to know they have health care, 95% of their wages if they get laid off, and so much vacation time. They responded the government takes most of their wages to pay for these benefits that they really can’t afford to go anywhere or do anything except to go home and watch TV. They’ve gladly would trade all of it for money to be able to do things.

This is what we have to look forward to.


23 posted on 07/05/2012 3:30:49 AM PDT by HarleyD
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How about NATIONAL INTERNMENT CAMPS for progressive enemies of the Republic... that is a NATIONAL PROGRAM that I can back 100%. Let’s start with the author of this garbage.

LLS


26 posted on 07/05/2012 4:39:52 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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Needless to say, we will paid for our work, so if we take another 10% of work time as vacation, it WILL be 10% cut in national GNP, which will flow down to EVERYONE, somehow - probably through inflation.

By the way, 10% of our GNP was about what we spent on national defense during the Cold War (when we were serious about it). Europe wasn’t even close to that level - so they had a lot of money to play around with there.


28 posted on 07/05/2012 4:57:32 AM PDT by BobL
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They won't stop at letting you have N weeks.
When instituted by the government, it becomes forced.

I worked in Germany for a month. Being there for a limited time and wanting to put in a lot of hours to get the project done before leaving, I made an offhand comment about wanting to come to the office on the weekend. Was the manager pleased? "No. You cannot do that. I would be arrested."

Not only would productivity be reduced by mandated vacation standards, it would become prohibited beyond a certain level. Remember the standard thinking of the socialist mindset: "that which is not obligated is prohibited."

29 posted on 07/05/2012 5:03:53 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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Some just don't realize that wealth is not durable.
Sure! Take a vacation! It will just sit there while you produce nothing. Aw heck, we'll even redistribute it, while you don't need it, and redistribute it back to you when you do!
They don't realize that wealth stagnates, rots, and evaporates rather fast. If you're not creating or maintaining it, wealth goes away.

Economy is not a persistent zero-sum game.

30 posted on 07/05/2012 5:09:46 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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