[Andy McDandy]

One week, plus the event days. Anything more than that is up to the employer.

[Boiler]

One week, plus the event days. Anything more than that is up to the employer.

Jeez, that's fuck all really, isn't it? And a bloke who seems to be photographed within AF1 most of the time (presumably as it hauls his arse to Tacky-a-Largo) wants to reduce that?! Despite his claim, the average American worker must look toward France with envy.

[Andy McDandy]

Seems to be a social status thing. The higher up you go, the more holiday you get, and the more you think the peons below you are a bunch of skivers who don't deserve the meagre minimum wage paycheck you begrudgingly give them.

As for France, whatever they got is nothin' compared to FREEDUM! and USA! USA! USA!

[Yug]

And it's quite shocking to find that, a quarter of the way through the 21st century, a lot of Americans are still being paid by cheque.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting view that workers don't like bank holidays there. That's "populism" for you.

[Abernathy]

This just popped up on my Facebook feed. Thought it interesting, and accurate.

I know a little something that so many do not appreciate about Donald, but that those of us who worked with him in the financial services game have known for many decades – LONG before he ever made a run at politics.
His stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it.

He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn’t violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn’t consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn’t screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.

If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don’t look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower.

If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don’t look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he’d like to unlock.
If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don’t look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.
If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don’t look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corps dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonizatio

If you want to understand his hatred of “immigrants” don’t look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things “dirty and brown.”
What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it. And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy.

The GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would LOVE to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won’t get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude – a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.

Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something’s gonna give.

I don’t know what it is, but every bone in my body FEELS an energetic convergence heading toward a massive, MASSIVE explosion – coming soon.

— Eilene Workman