Congress Enjoys Nearly 3 Times The Vacation
 Tuesday, August 12th, 2008  by Connie T.

If we've had a string of slow news days in the political arena, it could have something to do with the fact that our Congress is off on a five-week vacation - one that started early, too, at noon on Friday, August 1st.

And five weeks is a lot, considering the average American has only 12 days of vacation all year, granting Congress' month + hiatus almost three times the off-time of us regular folks.

Not only that, but around 31 percent of U.S. workers don't take all of their vacation days, instead giving back an average of three vacation days per year.

I'm sure the House has other allowed off-days in addition to this slotted time frame, too. So when Democratic candidate Barack Obama began telling America that we deserve health care at least as good as Congress - it felt like, it's about damn time somebody started measuring up what we get in comparison to our so-called public servants.

Oh, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi adjourned the House of Representatives before a vote was taken on whether or not we can drill for our own oil, which means gasoline prices will continue to eat away at our bank accounts at least until Congress reconvenes in September.

Yay.

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