flpoljunkie
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:11 PM
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How many of us Americans can take a 33 day "working" vacation? |
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Answer. Very , very few. You have to live in France to get this kind of vacation, Dubya. This little ass covering gem was dropped at the end of an article on the economy and the Cindy Sheehan protests in Crawford today... Bush spoke at the end of the first week of his 33-day working vacation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/06/AR2005080600485.html
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:16 PM
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1. Two and one half years with no vacation at all here !! |
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Sat Aug-06-05 10:54 PM
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self employed, medical debt, and reduced wages. :-(
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:16 PM
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2. Nobody but Bush can take a |
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"French" vacation :evilgrin:
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:18 PM
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3. No vacation at all for me most times, it would be nice but not w/ war |
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Edited on Sat Aug-06-05 06:19 PM by GetTheRightVote
on going, * should be in the WH. and congress should stay home in DC as well. It is nice to see the media covering Cindy S. and Vote March finally. It is about time they are concerned with real people.
It is amazing how * has taken over a year off for vacation while a war is continuing with American soldiers dying left and right, sickening really.
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:19 PM
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4. How politically unsavy can you get? |
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How many people caught David Letterman when he was zinging Bush over this vacation? you should have heard the applause. I mean, with things where they are at, so much doubt over the war, the whole CIA leak probe, consumer confidence on the way down, can you imagine a worse time to take a vacation -I mean, it's just bad politics. I know even some hard core Repub voters right now gotta be like WTF?
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:26 PM
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8. Perfect time to steal away so the next terror attack can be |
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blamed on oh I don't know... let's say BC.
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:20 PM
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5. Why the fuck are we paying taxes into this black hole of corruption? |
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:26 PM
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9. Not the sort of democratic government they told you about in |
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:23 PM
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6. When I retire someday to full-time writing |
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I'll be able to do it. But now? Uh-uh.
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:25 PM
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7. This is just ONE of his vacations every year. |
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Basically, he only wors 4 day weekends. I think he's vastly overpaid.
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Sat Aug-06-05 07:17 PM
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16. Good point, cornermouse! Thanks for making that clear. |
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Sat Aug-06-05 07:32 PM
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Edited on Sat Aug-06-05 07:33 PM by cornermouse
:blush:
Basically, he only works 4 day weeks. I think he's vastly overpaid.
:blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:26 PM
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10. to the indolent, it is always a holiday |
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what is truly remarkable is that no one seems to care except us nose-to-the-grindstone slackers.
its saturday, i'm at work making up for my big 5 days off. why isn't the fucking president?
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:29 PM
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11. i had a year`s paid vacation |
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i was laided off- then for another year no money at all. now i`m making 4 dollars less than i did three years ago..some fucking vacation.
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:34 PM
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a year but it took 11 years to get it.
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:40 PM
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13. And yes the rumor is that when he comes back ..... |
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..... he will go the Ohio State vs Texas football game on 9/10 ...... After all he will have earned a little get away.
Damn and I have tickets to that game too.
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:45 PM
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14. You can run George, but you can"t hide.... |
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the Patriots are after you...
Maybe Cheney's secret bunker....
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Sat Aug-06-05 06:47 PM
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15. I have worked 22 years to have 5 wks and now my company |
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has change the rules in the middle of the game and I will have 4wks and feel lucky at that!
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Sat Aug-06-05 07:26 PM
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17. I don't really get any vacation at all |
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Salary is just a euphemism for unpaid overtime.
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Sat Aug-06-05 07:35 PM
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19. 33 days a very Scottish Rite FreeMason number of days!!! |
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Sat Aug-06-05 09:53 PM
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20. Ha! The French don't take such vacations either |
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The French work their butts off during the week so they can actually spend time with their spouses and kids on weekends and during the summer. Few actually take that sort of long vacation every year; most take much shorter vacations and build up their records so that every 3 years or so, they can take a month in the summer to go traveling or spend time with the family.
What burns me up about Bush is that he expects ordinary American "working stiffs" to put up with Rethug donor companies that work them to the bone, force them away from their families, refuse to allow them 2 sick days and bark at them if they even take off at Christmas or Thanksgiving. Companies which then turn around and fire their hard-working employees anyway, replacing them with cheaper outsourcing employees from abroad. The US today now resembles the robber-baron fantasies of greedy fin-de-siecle corporatists than a nation with community spirit that supports its citizens.
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Sat Aug-06-05 10:52 PM
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21. hey, that's a great talking point. refer to it as bush's French vacations |
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at the ranch. they're always in August, and it's oh-so sickeningly European, isn't it? it's downright socialist of him! where is his work ethic?
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Sat Aug-06-05 11:04 PM
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23. I thought he was taking 5 weeks vacation? 31 + 7= 38 |
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Month of Aug have 31 days. I'm confused! :shrug:
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