Summer Time Blues
Welcome to the time of warm breezes, blue skies, and loading up the jalopy with everything you need for a week of fun and relaxation. Yes, with the end of the school year rapidly approaching, many families are planning how they will spend their summer vacation. If you are too poor to go on one of those winter ski retreats or to spend your Easter break near the Tropic of Cancer (cancer in this case is Latin for crab), you may be loading up the vehicle to a week at the local camp ground. Any time away from the race of rodents is time better spent.
But there is bad news concerning Americans and vacations. A Yahoo article today provides the startling news that Americans are not guaranteed paid vacations. Yes, that’s right. This alarming fact comes to you from Reuters news service. To quote the article, which is the only way I can find to ridicule it further, "The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation days and paid holidays," said economist John Schmitt. "Relying on businesses to voluntarily provide paid leave just hasn't worked," he added. "It's a national embarrassment that 28 million Americans don't get any paid vacation or paid holidays." Yes that right. In America, land of the free and home of the brave, our government does not guarantee you the right to take a vacation. I guess our Founding Fathers did not see fit to guarentee such an important right into the Constitution. Maybe free speech and freedom of worship were slightly more important.
The article goes on to say that the enlightened countries of Europe, (enlightened means socialist, highly taxed, high unemployment, wanna bees) provide guaranteed vacations for their citizens. The author of the article brags the Finland mandates 30 days paid leave and 9 paid holidays. And what is Finland known for? Whale hunting and Finlandia Vodka.
One of the wonderful things about America is that we have low unemployment. If you don’t like the benefits you are getting, find a new job. Jobs are plentiful right now and unless you work at a fast food place (these are high school jobs) or mowing lawns and raking leaves for the neighbors (these are tax free jobs), why do you need paid vacations. We do not need more government interference into how we manage our countries industries. There are enough regulations to manage without throwing the failed policies of Europe into the mix. We will never be good enough for the elite snobs from the old countries, so let’s not try to act like them. We are Americans. We kicked their asses in two world wars and have bailed them out of the financial problems caused by their own foolishness. Out ingenuity and ability to think for ourselves has made us the lone super power. Let Europe give drain their resources on controlling their population. Let Yankee know how and the free market dictate how America acts.
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Cobb
But there is bad news concerning Americans and vacations. A Yahoo article today provides the startling news that Americans are not guaranteed paid vacations. Yes, that’s right. This alarming fact comes to you from Reuters news service. To quote the article, which is the only way I can find to ridicule it further, "The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation days and paid holidays," said economist John Schmitt. "Relying on businesses to voluntarily provide paid leave just hasn't worked," he added. "It's a national embarrassment that 28 million Americans don't get any paid vacation or paid holidays." Yes that right. In America, land of the free and home of the brave, our government does not guarantee you the right to take a vacation. I guess our Founding Fathers did not see fit to guarentee such an important right into the Constitution. Maybe free speech and freedom of worship were slightly more important.
The article goes on to say that the enlightened countries of Europe, (enlightened means socialist, highly taxed, high unemployment, wanna bees) provide guaranteed vacations for their citizens. The author of the article brags the Finland mandates 30 days paid leave and 9 paid holidays. And what is Finland known for? Whale hunting and Finlandia Vodka.
One of the wonderful things about America is that we have low unemployment. If you don’t like the benefits you are getting, find a new job. Jobs are plentiful right now and unless you work at a fast food place (these are high school jobs) or mowing lawns and raking leaves for the neighbors (these are tax free jobs), why do you need paid vacations. We do not need more government interference into how we manage our countries industries. There are enough regulations to manage without throwing the failed policies of Europe into the mix. We will never be good enough for the elite snobs from the old countries, so let’s not try to act like them. We are Americans. We kicked their asses in two world wars and have bailed them out of the financial problems caused by their own foolishness. Out ingenuity and ability to think for ourselves has made us the lone super power. Let Europe give drain their resources on controlling their population. Let Yankee know how and the free market dictate how America acts.
Icool
Cobb
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