[AppyPappy]

State workers in Va with 5 years get 10 hours of vacation a month and about 13 paid holidays.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Bringing back the standard workweek and less holiday time?

My God! The cruelty of those Hun b*stards is unbelievable!

[Gumdrop]

Several years ago a visitor from Germany told my family and I that the expansive vacation benefits that Germans had were necessary and deserved. He could not figure out why I was not able to just take off 2 weeks when he decided to pay us a visit. I told him I did not have that much vacation time in my job. He was clueless. As it was he came during the New Year Holiday time, and it's mighty cold in Minnesota in January. I had warned him about our cold weather. I took off 3 days to escort him about Minneapolis. The rest of the time he spent in our house. The temperature was about 20 degrees below zero at night!

[yankeedame]

But with vacations enshrined in union contracts, any change in vacation and holiday habits are likely to be gradual...

Ha! Like no duh! Until (if ever) the backs of those unions are broke, the German (and French and British and American) economy has a wolf by the ear- it can no longer hold yet it dare not let go.

[nothingnew]

No comment. This is just too ludicrous.

But there are two people who willingly take less vacation: The managers who own the business.

Well....DUH!...(I guess I did comment after all.)

FMCDH

[driftless]

I had a little discussion with a very liberal co-worker this morning. He is a veteran world traveler, and has visited much of Asia and Europe including the Scandinavian countries. He remarked that even though prices were very expensive, Norway had a superior standard of living to the U.S. I asked him why that would be so if prices were so high. He exclaimed exasperatingly because the government provided so much time off and other things for the average Norwegian worker, and we don't. But I said if things are so expensive, how can they be superior to us?

His whole liberal rationale was that more government services meant a superior system. I added if the Scandinavians (or other Euros) are happy with allowing parasites to live off the tax-payers, that is their business. But obviously most Americans bridle at the idea of their tax-money going to subsidize idlers.

[JoeSchem]

Remember when German Social Democracy was praised by Clinton as the model for US prosperity.

Before that, liberals praised Sweden. And before that, the Soviet Union.

And they've since moved on from Germany to Canada.

Maybe someday they'll praise the US as the model for social democracy.

[Bonaparte]

What?? A causal connection between work and prosperity?? These Germans must be drinking too much Jagrmeister. What they need is tighter state control, more regs and taxes, more perpetual students living on loans, and boosted pension and welfare entitlements. Come on Germany! With just a little more effort, you can become a third world country. Go for it! You already got a good start by throwing away your American business with the orgy of Bush bashing and Saddam hugging. Don't quit now! You're almost there!

[RightOnline]

I just took the family to West Palm Beach, FL for vacation.................my first in over 20 years (and I was only there for about four days, then had to leave them for a week-long business trip across the country).

That's right...........over 20 years.

This whining doesn't cut it with me.

[RightWinger]

Wow, 28 days vacation, I only get 26 . . . & 11 holidays.