Posted on 12/06/2007 2:42:03 PM PST by icwhatudo
Executive Order: Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2007
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Monday, December 24, 2007, the day before Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 below.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 24, 2007, for reasons of national security or defense or other public need.
Sec. 3. Monday, December 24, 2007, shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 6, 2007.
My company is closed on December 24th. It’s not like any work would get done anyway...
LOL exactly.
That’s good! No work gets done anyway, as others have commented, and it also does make life easier for people who have to travel or even just get their Christmas presents out. Plus it reaffirms what is our tradition, here, in our country.
WOOHOO!!!
If Fed Employees were at work that day they would just be grumbling and wondering when the boss was going to send them home early...
That’s going to piss off that athiest guy in California.
We, the “little people”, have to work that day. Who else is going to pay the “chosen ones” their outrageous salaries? Give me a break. I’m so disgusted anymore with Washington. Fat a$$ hogs living off the scraps of the “little people”. Their day of reckoning will come someday and not too soon.
I’m sure there are many people that would like to give that guy a golden shower.
Most of “we the people” do have 12/24 off as an employer provided benefit.
I don’t think it is unreasonable to expect an employer, the federal government, to offer it off as a benefit as well.
Before the EO, federal employees were scheduled for ten days off in calendar year 2007. Ten to eleven days seems pretty typical.
Good for him! People should be home with their families on Christmas Eve. And America will hardly be the worse off for these people not working a day.
Who's making you?
‘We, the “little people”, have to work that day’
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Really? Neither my husband or I work on the 24th . . . and while he is a handsomely ‘big’ man, I’m on the “little” end of the continuum!
RELAX . . . ‘tis the season to be jolly!
To listen to the unions though the president has no heart and does not care about working people, especially government employees.
All federal employees off December 24th (except athiests). That would have burned ‘em.
And the long-time one - Rob Sherman - here in Illinois who has been filing lawsuits for years.
In 35 years as an ATC, I only recall 3 or 4 years when we didn't get it, although there were a couple of times we got 4 hours instead of 8.
Geeeez, get real! So now no work is going to get done on the 21st! Declare the 21st a "day off" and no work would get done on the 20th - ad infinitum!
Come to think of though, that's not a bad idea at all, hehehehehe! Just another gubmint free day!
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Grant pardons to the two border guards. (would have been my choice)
You are so right, why the hell should that "FAT ASS HOG" Private or Airman making $15,000 a year DARE ask for Christmas eve off!!!! And that dam Secretary making $20,000 a year... how dare her "Chosen One" butt be off too!!!!
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