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Alan Grayson (D) to introduce Paid Vacation Act (Socialism here we come!)
Politico ^ | 5-21-09 | ERIKA LOVLEY

Posted on 05/21/2009 5:30:47 AM PDT by truthandlife

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1 posted on 05/21/2009 5:30:47 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife

Beat me by 14 seconds on my posting of this.


2 posted on 05/21/2009 5:32:11 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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To: truthandlife

You know, if you don’t like the company’s vacation policy...you could try not going to work for them in the first place.


3 posted on 05/21/2009 5:35:30 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: Sig Sauer P220

What companies don’t? Aside from junk-food outlets that is.


4 posted on 05/21/2009 5:36:16 AM PDT by junkman_106 (The ACLU can have arial intercourse with a rotating glazed pastry!)
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Any fast food job or retail job. This is all about “spreading the wealth.”


5 posted on 05/21/2009 5:38:49 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: truthandlife
France currently requires employers to provide 30 days of paid leave.

Barack, Hillary, Nancy, Harry, et. al. are busy turning America into France as fast as they can. Only the politicians will like the result.

6 posted on 05/21/2009 5:47:06 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: truthandlife
That leaves August, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says that’s not really enough time to unwind.

Cry me a frickin' river, Murkowski. 22 years in the military, with 30 days paid leave, IF you can take it (the mission always comes first), and I didn't get paid anyway near to your cushy salary... Or get to be a senator.

Many a year I didn't even get to come back to North America, let alone my home state.

This bill by Alan Grayson (D-Disneyworld). Kind of says it all, huh? Who says dems are always for the little guy and Republicans are always for big business? The Mouse has its own Congressman in Grayson, IMHO.

7 posted on 05/21/2009 5:48:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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The "people" this bill is supposed to benefit cannot aford to go to Disney World. So, just like the "unpaid" maternity leave act, eventually, you and I will be paying for these "people" to go to Disney World. Come on, it's not fair that some can afford Disney World when others cannot!

Either that, or the gubmit will shut down the entire Disney enterprise as a "luxury" just as they killed the general avaiation industry.

8 posted on 05/21/2009 5:48:30 AM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: truthandlife

I’m looking for the “satire” tag and don’t see it.....


9 posted on 05/21/2009 5:48:31 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 ("What's in YOUR wallet? MY MONEY!")
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To: TexasNative2000

That’s the sad thing in this land that used to be called America.


10 posted on 05/21/2009 5:51:07 AM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: truthandlife

There appears to be no end to the socialist agenda being pushed by the DhimmiRat LibTards.

This is preposterous. But, then again, a year ago I’d have scoffed at the notion of the Federal government dumping billions and billions of dollars down the auto industry rat hole...

It’s time to take back the country.


11 posted on 05/21/2009 5:52:38 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: centurion316
Barack, Hillary, Nancy, Harry, et. al. are busy turning America into France as fast as they can. Only the politicians will like the result

Sadly, their unemployment rate is less than the US right now. And they have a healthier attitude towards nuclear power. But being a cheese-eating-surrender monkey, that's not for me. Those French unemployment rates must be wrong, with all those North African Mudslims smoking hash and burning cars. Sarkozy is cooking the books.

12 posted on 05/21/2009 5:54:02 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: truthandlife

unconstitutional.


13 posted on 05/21/2009 5:54:51 AM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: PubliusMM

Why should they?Now is the time. The fools and idiots said via their vote on November 4, 2008 that they would prefer to be governmental property than free men and women.


14 posted on 05/21/2009 5:55:07 AM PDT by sport
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To: truthandlife
I have worked for a resort company for 6 seasons. We are on call 7 days a week from the third week of November through the 2nd week of April. That is about 19 weeks a year. In my case that comes to over 110 weeks in the last 6 years.

I agree that there should be a mandated period of PAID TIME OFF or vacation time earned for each 52 weeks of work, even if the work is preformed over several CONSECUTIVE SEASONS.

IT SHOULD WORK LIKE THIS: When you have worked a total of 52 weeks ( even if it is over several consecutive years you should be granted a week of PAID VACATION. After the second 52 weeks of work is preformed you should be granted TWO WEEKS of PAID VACATION. All vacation time or vacation pay must be taken outside of the operating season.

15 posted on 05/21/2009 6:01:07 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: truthandlife

Let the legislatures show the way. Here’s a better idea. Let them have 2 weeks work and 50 weeks of vacation per year. They’ll be happy and their constituents will be happier.


16 posted on 05/21/2009 6:02:58 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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NO! No mandatory paid vacation! Don’t like your job? Either get smarter or better educated.

THIS PROPOSAL SUCKS!

This will only help China and others further kick our asses in the global marketplace.


17 posted on 05/21/2009 6:03:30 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: WellyP

Please note that my job CAN NOT be preformed on a year-a-round basis for the same company.


18 posted on 05/21/2009 6:04:15 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: wombtotomb
unconstitutional.

Yeah, buut so is income taxes, and a whole friggin boatload of other crap Libs (and some repubs) have thrown at business in the last long time.

19 posted on 05/21/2009 6:05:56 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: WellyP
I agree that there should be a mandated period of PAID TIME OFF or vacation time earned for each 52 weeks of work, even if the work is preformed over several CONSECUTIVE SEASONS.

IT SHOULD WORK LIKE THIS: When you have worked a total of 52 weeks ( even if it is over several consecutive years you should be granted a week of PAID VACATION. After the second 52 weeks of work is preformed you should be granted TWO WEEKS of PAID VACATION. All vacation time or vacation pay must be taken outside of the operating season.

If you can negotiate those terms with your employer, that sounds like a great deal. OTOH, if you are working 19 weeks out of the year it sounds like you have 33 weeks off during the year during which you can be working elsewhere or taking your leisure time. You want government to force your employer to pay you for a couple of those weeks as if you were working?

20 posted on 05/21/2009 6:08:55 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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