Bush Vacation Act for You and Me
No matter what is on the agenda, no matter what crisis is imminent, Bush gets his vacation time. That’s why the Democrats in Congress should propose “the George W. Bush Paid Vacation Act”. This piece of legislation will guarantee every American with a full time job to five weeks of paid vacation… no questions asked. In the name of our President, the average American citizen will join the league of other civilized vacationing peoples like the Australians, the Germans and the French.
Wording of the Petition:
I humbly request that you propose legislation that will entitle all full-time workers in the United States to five weeks of paid vacation time.
George W. Bush has taken a five week vacation, the longest Presidential vacation in 36 years and the 49th of his Presidency. President George W. Bush has spent 20% of his terms in office on vacation. The country is at war.
If the President of the United States is indeed one of our peers, hard-working American citizens should be entitled to as much vacation as our Chief Executive.
(Thanks to Fink Tank 3000)
Not that I am not with you on longer vacations, but when I took a vacation while I was working (I retired at age 55), no one did my work while I was away, so when I returned, I would have to work twice as hard to catch up to where I would have been had I not been away. I suspect that is even truer for the President, and in addition even though he is away from DC, he is still on the job. Besides, he is not the only government employee on a lengthy vacation. The Congress is on vacation right now as wekk. Besides, I once read a study which concluded that it was far more costly to taxpayers when there was full time legislatures as compaired to part time legislatures like some of the states had. The cost savings was not in less salery to the legislators, but in less laws being inacted, with their accompanying increase in government spending.
Well I think it’s meant to be a touch satirical – I’m more for the vacations for all. However, he is spending more of his presidency on vacation than any other president – something like 20% of the time. How would that go over where you work.? Actually I think would be better for him to take mini-vacations around doing other things than to start playing at cowboy when the country needs things to be done. In a way, it would be better if he was never there because it would be more obvious who was really in charge…
LOL, yeah, he is a shirker on more then one count. Still aWol, I believe?
The man does not know the meaning of work, or, for that matter, the meaning of anything, though he is the living realization of the word hubris.
I loathe him. I just do.
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How much does it cost to trasport the Presidential staff, aids, Cabinet officers, vital documents, etc to Texas? It must be millions.
In a time when our soldiers are asked to make sacrifices, perhaps some of that money could be spent on wepons and body armour, etc.
How much money are the taxpayers supposed to pay so one man can take a “vacation”? Or is it paid for with donations and bribes? Does anyone know?
Response: I have no idea of the costs. Presumably they are similar wherever he goes and Presidents tend to move about anyway. I do wonder though just how much “brush” there is to clear. I don’t have a problem, myself, with occasional downtime for the President – it’s a stressful job. On the one side, I think he’s taking too high a percentage of his time as “vacation” but on the other side, I suspect it isn’t really a vacation so much as it is an opportunity to have events, photo ops, strategy sessions and the like somewhere away from Washington.