What do we have against vacation?
Aug 19, 2011, 8:56 AM | Updated: Aug 20, 2011, 8:05 am
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: What do we have against vacation?
The President is on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation today — to much criticism from his critics.
Because it looks bad at a time when so many Americans are looking for jobs.
How dare he take a vacation. He should be pushing his jobs package.
I hear this coming from some of the same members of Congress who say the federal government has no business creating jobs.
I don’t get it. They should be HAPPY he’s on vacation!
— They want him working feverishly on his new jobs program? Why? Because they’re going to pass it the moment they all get back in September?
No! They’re going to call it dead on arrival like they always do.
I think this is just part of America’s aversion, not just to presidential vacations — because the same thing happened to George Bush — this is about America’s cultural aversion to vacation PERIOD.
It’s one of the ways we try to prove to the world we’re not Europeans. Just try to find a Parisian in Paris this time of year. You can’t!
Just try to find an Italian in Italy between noon and 2:00 ANY time of year.
We want to show the world we’re not like that.
Plus we have this fear that if we’re out of the office for more than three days, there will be someone else at the desk when we get back.
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