No? Then How About an Ass?
Democrats are idiots:
Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.
So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.
The bill would require companies with more than 100 employees to offer a week of paid vacation for both full-time and part-time employees after they’ve put in a year on the job. Three years after the effective date of the law, those same companies would be required to provide two weeks of paid vacation, and companies with 50 or more employees would have to provide one week.
Yes, by all means, when unemployment is approaching double digits, do please make it more expensive to hire people. You NSFWing moron.
But, wait — wishful thinking will make the law pay for itself! Read on:
The idea: More vacation will stimulate the economy through fewer sick days, better productivity and happier employees.
You know what else would stimulate the economy? If we gave everyone a pony.
Welcome to France.
Just… wow.
You know what else would stimulate the economy? If we gave everyone a pony.
Don’t you think that a unicorn for everybody would do it better?
If it’s a pony, I’d like a pony of Sierra Nevada pale ale.
Of all the possible benefits that could be mandated, paid vacation is the only one I can understand. Some jobs are hazardous to mental health, but it would be politically risky to require paid vacation only for people working odd shifts or erratic work schedules.
http://i-want-a-pony.com
I don’t know how to put it nicely, but the fact that I’ve never had a job after the age of 19 that didn’t have paid vacation has sort of kept me motivated to work my way through college, then since graduation (dear God, 12 and half years ago) I’ve kept my skills marketable so that I get the salaried job with the paid vacation. Then I’m married with a family and taking the full two weeks has proven to actually be a challenge (a hastle even. Three cheers for the 5 days I get to roll over). Those that have jobs that do not have paid vacations are not near as commonplace for adults as the media make them out to be (and one hopes that well paid freelance consultants aren’t the target demographic here). And not to put to fine a point on it, but if you do mandate it, the increase in crowds at the vacation hotspots will disuade many people from going. I went to Disney on spring break this year. For one day. The population of a small country resides in southwestern Orlando on spring break. School schedules and things of that sort dictate when the time can be taken anyway. Lastly, and the statement sure to prevent me from ever getting to run for office, when are people going to frickin’ realize that the problem facing our economy is not a lack of discretionary spending from the so called “have nots.” The “Haves” are not spending and that is the problem in a nutshell (of course, a big part of the problem is a third class: the “haves with more than they can afford” which runs through all classes). And the Democrats are making it infinitely more difficult for the Haves to stimulate the economy. This is just another example. I’m just loving the Economic Amateur Hour we are living under.
Is it surprising to learn that China has experimented with forced holidays to stimulate the economy? I had the dubious luck to be in Beijing during one of them. “Go shopping,” came the order from the Communist Party. Some people went to car dealerships, but they couldn’t buy anything because you can’t buy a car in China without going through a hundred miles of red tape, and all the relevant government agencies were closed — due to the holiday. Any chance our government would do something that silly?
Don’t you just love rhetorical questions?
1) Who doesn’t get paid vacation? I’ve never had a job as an adult that doesn’t offer PTO!
2) I’d really dig a pony, actually.
Oooh, ooh, and 35 hour work weeks.
And a pony.
Oh, you already covered that.
It’s silly and, business law being primarily a state-level concern, raises yet more federalism worries, but that said, I’m with those who say, “what’s the big deal?
Is there any employer in the country who will be effected by this? Seriously? Some on the part-time front, but that’s about it. IMO, what this shows more than anything is that Conyers hasn’t a clue about how American businesses operate.
I’m just happy that Dear Leader has given me my invisible, ghost unicorn, Thunderbolt. Some say that Thunderbolt doesn’t exist, but Dear Leader wouldn’t disappoint or lie to us, so Thunderbolt does exist.
“..mrs. pelosi, the cia man is here with your pony.”
I’ll probably get 36-hour workweeks soon because the State of Arizona’s budget is based on sales and property taxes and is also one of the leaders in foreclosures and is still in the midst of a ridiculous bubble. It’s a day off every other week, but unpaid.
Compared to the alternative, I’ll take it.
Still, WTF? This guy wants to mandate something that pretty much already exists. Is this some sort of gloryhound bullshit or what? I don’t think it’s a stupid idea so much as an unnecessary one. Especially since the jobs that don’t have paid vacation days are pretty much temp stuff where the employee says “I won’t be available next week as I’ll be out of town” and the employer can’t argue much about it.
And a massive influx of ponies would cause massive stagnation of our economy. All those lost hours spent unproductively brushing their manes and polishing the saddles? We should be exporting ponies if we want to get ahead economically. But not to France, where they’ll make Le Chevalle Petit sandwiches.
NSFWing?
What’s that?