Posted on 10/29/2008 12:02:05 PM PDT by Salena Zito
Yesterday, Barack Obama's campaign asked his supporters to “take the day” off via their Web site and YouTube. An effort to make sure that expected lines would not serve as an obstacle to voters and to use the extra bodies as volunteers so they could make calls and help with the get-out-the-vote efforts.
Nine states already have ‘state holidays’ on Election Day. We, as a country, have national holidays that in theory give everyone in the country the day off, although no industry really shuts down and gives their entire workforce a collective day off.
But if you take the campaign’s suggestion at face value, what would the economic impact be, if we as a country did literally heed the Obama call to ask our bosses to take the day off?
Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services says that we are having enough economic difficulties without adding on to those problems .
“Even in the good spirit of getting people out to vote, it would cause a tremendous economic disruption in our economy and across the world ,” he said.
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Naaaah - it can be covered from the $700B bailout...
Think ‘virtual money’
I don’t think we’re on the same page.
My post was intended to MOCK the very idea that his voters taking a day off of “work” would have ANY effect at all because a huge portion of them don’t even ~have~ jobs.
Yeah.
I got it.
More dumb ideas from these people.
Can’t say I’ve ever HAD E-Day off.....yet, somehow I still find a way to drag my arse out and vote....
Why do the folks who support Hussein have to take a day off from work? They already stay home and collect their government welfare check.
JoMa
Don’t foget, we get another holiday to honor Kennedy, natl. drunk driving day, and another for Mac. should pass in office, that’s 2 more.
Perhaps in a month the empty headed imbeciles who would join the American-hating communists to vote for Obomba might wake up before it's too late.
No one in our family gets time off to vote.
We vote early in the morning or after work.
Nice of your boss to give you time off.
I’m part of a home business now and my “boss” is just hubby.
It’s been a lot of years since I worked outside the home.
I don’t know if it’s the same now as it was back then, but in MD, it was mandatory to let employees take time off to vote.
Thanks to you and your family making the extra effort....:)
We vote. Nothing can stop us from voting.
Had a shock blizzard yesterday, no roads cleared,no power. Wonder what would have happened if it was election day.
The Dems would have stayed home and we’d win in a landslide?....:)
Have you ever tried going to 90 different polling places in your state and voting 90 times?
I reckon that *might* take a full day....:)
Bingo! Don't forget traveling to nearby states to vote as well. No darn wonder people in Detroit end up getting into line just as the polls are about to close.
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