[CottonBall]

His advisers calculate the scheme will increase U.S. productivity by almost 18 percent and add at least $1.2 trillion to the Gross National Product – because employees will be working an average of 2.5 extra weeks a year.”

1. It sounds illegal to deny a person their earned vacation time.
2. It won't boost the economy because employers will have to pay employees for their unused vacation hours if they don't get to use them, just as they do when an employee quits.
3. It will encourage those of us that don't work because taxes on a 2nd income are confiscatory to stay unemployed. Why bother with the punitive actions?

[nascarnation]

If this wasn’t satire, it still would be bogus.
The current economy has a surplus of capacity and a lack of demand.
Increased production is not really needed at all.

[George from New England]

Let’s scrape Florida off the continent why dontcha?