Ungland... No Pity For The LAZY!!!Ready for subsidized vacation?
April 21, 2010
The Times of London quotes Antonio Tajani as saying, “Traveling for tourism today is a right. The way we spend our holidays is a formidable indicator of our quality of life.”
http://www.ibj.com/newstalk/2010/04/21/ready-for-subsidized-vacation/PARAMS/post/19469
This is the brain child of Antonio Tajani, the EU’s commissioner for enterprise and industry, who plans to subsidize vacations for those too poor to afford one and lots of other people, as well.
Once again the confusion of individual rights with the requirements of others to pay for them. Freedom of the press doesn't require others to pay for that press, freedom of speech doesn't require others to buy me a bullhorn.
Maybe we should call the organization for such vacations “Kraft durch Freude” (Strength through Joy) to commemorate the first national plan for providing vacations for all citizens — supervised by the Party, or course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy
Pass it here and make it retroactive, I’d have a couple of years paid vacation coming.
This is already done in most European countries. Sweden takes over many hotels in the Canary Islands for their pensioners or people the medical staff recommend sunshine during their long winter months.
Any Spanish pensioner can have a vacation, with all meals included, anywhere in Spain or the islands at a subsidised rate during October through April. I have been on three of them with my late wife’s sisters to Majorica, the Canarias and Benedorm.
It makes sense in a country that would pay hospitality workers to do nothing if they were laid off - so keep them working and provide pensioners with subsidize holidays is a great idea. Of course it helps the airlines too. All in all it is a win, win situation for everyone.