Americans receive an average of 14 vacation days a year, compared to 36 days in France, 30 in Spain and 26 days in Germany.
I suspect that this is slightly garbled. That is, yes, I think many, many Americans get only two weeks of vacation per year, but they also get between 10 and 14 holidays. Granted, this still leaves us just shy of Germany, but it's not quite the stark comparison that the authors are trying to make.
And, as for our dear Congress-peeps, there's a bit of a dilemma (or two) here, too. First, if your Congress-peeps are working 250 days per year (which is probably what the typical person works -- 50 wks at 5 days per), then you're probably not going to have much chance to meet with them, unless you journey to Washington, D.C., which seems pretty inefficient when multiplied by the number of taxpayers in a Congressional District. Also, think of the (terrible) things that Congress could achieve if they spent more time in session! Thus, I'm not sure I'm in a hurry to change things here too much.
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I suspect that this is slightly garbled. That is, yes, I think many, many Americans get only two weeks of vacation per year, but they also get between 10 and 14 holidays. Granted, this still leaves us just shy of Germany, but it's not quite the stark comparison that the authors are trying to make.
And, as for our dear Congress-peeps, there's a bit of a dilemma (or two) here, too. First, if your Congress-peeps are working 250 days per year (which is probably what the typical person works -- 50 wks at 5 days per), then you're probably not going to have much chance to meet with them, unless you journey to Washington, D.C., which seems pretty inefficient when multiplied by the number of taxpayers in a Congressional District. Also, think of the (terrible) things that Congress could achieve if they spent more time in session! Thus, I'm not sure I'm in a hurry to change things here too much.
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