In related news, the weekly chocolate ration has been increased from 30 to 20 grams!
Bless you Obama!
So now Easter and Passover interrupt commerce?
Now, whether they will actually be interested in working given all the negative incentives for doing so is quite another matter.
My specialty is labor economics and I've been a fly on the wall at liberal gatherings actually discussing these topics. Their ideal situation is for roughly 25% of the workforce to be in the labor market full-time and the overwhelming part of that 25% to be employed through government unions, labor unions and other cartels which can easily be controlled. Everyone else is supposed to scrape by on training subsidies (including college loans), pensions or the dole. It makes for a very compliant populace.
I kid you not. I've heard it with my own ears.