I'm sure most people would rather be at homewith their families in Elmira than working...
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.
If someone really works...then they don’t need defending...
?????
/S tag? Why....?
Another more solemn executive order:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071204-9.html
~snip
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim December 7, 2007, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. I encourage all Americans to observe this solemn occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I urge all Federal agencies, interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff this December 7 in honor of those who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Grant pardons to the two border guards. (would have been my choice)
Free Compean and Ramos!
Yep, just as no one in the military has never worked a day in their life. Just like those men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan are enjoying year long, all expense paid vacations at taxpayer expense.
This means that all the office parties will have to happen the previous Friday (12/21). So, no work will get done that day either.
“So what am I missing here?”
Nothing...
In post 138, you use anecdotal...in post 152, I do the same...
I'm sure most people would rather be at homeGRRRRR! So then you were being sarcastic! I’m not sure I understand your use of “anecdotal” but I hope you are not inferring that 20+ year career NCOs never work a day in their life. That’s just silly.
“...20+ year career NCOs never work a day in their life”
maybe the first one or two...
The other 50 weeks they sit in their offices and do no work.
Ex-CUSE ME? I must have missed that part of my fedgov orientation. I get 4 hours of leave for every two weeks I work, and those hours are tracked by a very diligent computer. I had to work for 5 months before I could take 5 straight days of vacation. I have to work for 3 years before those 4 hours increase to 6.
Stick with just posting what you know.
“I had to work for 5 months before I could take 5 straight days of vacation. I have to work for 3 years before those 4 hours increase to 6.”
You just don’t realize....hahaha
How does that effect us? I always feel like I’m getting screwed when this happens.
Things change, however, when the mysterious John Galt begins a revolution against the existing order, believing that the parasitic society would destroy itself if its competent and hard-working members would simply stop working.
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-atlasshrugged/intro.html
Uh, yeah...that makes a whole lot of sense. /s
Can’t help ya’...
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