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Showing Original Post only (View all)Newt: Economic Liberty Means No Annual Vacations For American Workers [View all]
I opened the chapter on Work in my book A Nation Like No Other with this anecdote because I believe it cuts to the core of what makes America exceptional. While other countries have enshrined 35-hour work weeks and 60 days paid vacation in their laws, America remains one of the few developed nations that have declined to restrict these economic liberties. Here, we value hard work and free enterprise as the substance of opportunity.http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48134
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This "cleaning bathrooms" thing. I don't know why he's so obsessed with it...
truth2power
Dec 2011
#14
I like how he attributes the 30% drop in summer employment between 2001 and 2010 to Obama!
sinkingfeeling
Dec 2011
#17
If it's legally mandated paid vacation days, the US is actually at 0 days paid vacation.
Selatius
Dec 2011
#25