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48% Favor Government-Mandated Paid Vacation, 42% Say it Will Hurt The Economy
Rasmussen Reports ^ | May 27, 2009

Posted on 05/27/2009 8:54:51 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: reaganaut1

wow.

sheeple are crazy


41 posted on 05/27/2009 9:45:22 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com for the love of something)
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To: SpinnerWebb
I want a hippopotamus that craps unicorns that craps busty blonde nymphomaniacs...

Hey, if you're not going to use all of those nymphomaniacs...

42 posted on 05/27/2009 9:46:36 AM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
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To: razorboy

I never considered the service/server waitress area. Then again I never worked in that field more than a summer or two.

That’s really going to help productivity when the rest of the hamburger flippers are paying for their fellow flipper’s vacation at the beach. Not to worry, there will be less traffic at the drive through when a number 2 at McDonald’s costs $15.00!


43 posted on 05/27/2009 9:50:04 AM PDT by poobear
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To: OpeEdMunkey
Well, they're only slightly used.
44 posted on 05/27/2009 9:52:39 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: reaganaut1

FUBO FUBO FUBO!


45 posted on 05/27/2009 9:55:58 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: poobear

What businesses don’t give 1 week paid vacation after 1 year of employment? What businesses don’t give paid holidays after 90 days?

I’ve never worked for one.
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We do, but some don’t and the point is, it’s their CHOICE. If the employees don’t like it, they can find a job elsewhere. that’s capitalism.


46 posted on 05/27/2009 9:57:39 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: reaganaut1

people seem pretty stupid to me most of the time. How can 48% think we should have a federal law mandating paid vacation, but 57% think government shouldn’t say how MANY days?

So apparently at least 8% of those who favor a law requiring vacation would be OK if companies complied with the law by providing 1 hour of vacation to their employees.

Government has no business mandating the employer-employee relationship. If I want to get paid more money instead of getting vacation, I should be allowed to do so without government interference .

Of course, some states require that you take a lunch break. I think California requires that you certify each day that you took your lunch break.


47 posted on 05/27/2009 10:05:49 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: nutmeg
The ignorants will always go for the freebies they think will come their way, all the way up until and after the gulags are opened. Just look at the old Soviet Union and the people who yearn for it to come back so they can experience greatness once again — If that isn't the laughter of the 20th century I don't know what is.

The corrupt politicians will always play to that ignorant and the freebie angle.

And the freebies never show, because intelligent people know there is no such thing as a free lunch.

If you haven't yet seen it, the Hugo Chavez Show on Frontline’s website is worth watching. The image of the sewing machines manned and ready by eager workers, waiting for the jobs that never comes sticks in my mind. The sheer stupidity of the seamstresses illustrated by that one scene is priceless.

Classic Freidman, illustrating full employment:

While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic

Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons and create even more jobs?” Friedman inquired.

Employment doesn’t make us wealthy — production does.

48 posted on 05/27/2009 10:06:02 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: peace with honor

Free STD treatments.

And a huge government program that cures STDs and prevents them from happening in the first place.


49 posted on 05/27/2009 10:13:43 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: reaganaut1
How do people expect small businesses, especially start ups, to accommodate one or two weeks paid vacation?

A lot of businesses can't. If one or two people call in sick, yet alone go on vacation they would be very hard pressed to keep their doors open.

50 posted on 05/27/2009 10:23:49 AM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: reaganaut1

Why do they always do this. One, we don’t know the question, two, if 48 percent was for it 52% are against it. Last time I looked 52 was higher than 48, but they always put the vote they want up, even if it was 22 % they would have a screaming headline. The percentages have no bearing when you don’t know the actual question asked or how it was asked.


51 posted on 05/27/2009 10:46:45 AM PDT by calex59
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To: reaganaut1

I WANT EVERYTHING AND IT MUST BE FREE!!!! WEE!.....


52 posted on 05/27/2009 10:54:36 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: calex59

The questions asked and other details are at http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/pt_survey_toplines/may_2009/toplines_mandatory_paid_vacation_may_24_25_2009


53 posted on 05/27/2009 11:10:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

If the Government proposes it, then it must be good. /SARC

He’s from the Disney World District...


54 posted on 05/27/2009 11:21:47 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: reaganaut1

What prompted this question?


55 posted on 05/27/2009 11:51:27 AM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: Tarpon

What I do not understand is the government gets involved in many things, EVERYTIME they make the situation worse, no exceptions. rats, and others keep voting for those that promise to make government bigger.
for the life of me, i will never understand this.


56 posted on 05/27/2009 12:23:48 PM PDT by genghis
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To: genghis

It’s all about power ... Nothing complicated.


57 posted on 05/27/2009 12:26:00 PM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: reaganaut1

The convoluted opinions expressed in this poll, prove that pollsters are really stupid.


58 posted on 05/27/2009 12:44:41 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I get (unpaid) days off

Most consultans are always off.


59 posted on 05/27/2009 12:47:12 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: Tarpon

Calling them ignorant is being too kind. They are not just ignorant, they’re corrupt. Wanting a hand out is not just stupid, it’s wanting what one hasn’t earned, it is nothing more than thievery.


60 posted on 05/27/2009 1:11:12 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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