Sunday, August 12, 2007

Bush on Track to Become the Vacation President


More evidence that Chimperator Bush is utterly clueless as to how most Americans live (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/mason/5042364.html). Note, that the amount of Bush's vacation time to date calculates to over 13 and 1/2 months of vacation:
On Thursday, Bush left for a weekend in Kennebunkport, Maine, and his family's summer compound, Walker's Point. On Monday, he heads to his Crawford retreat, where he has spent all or part of 418 days of his presidency, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS News White House correspondent and meticulous record-keeper.

The presidential vacation-time record holder is the late Ronald Reagan, who tallied 436 days in his two terms. At 418 days, and with 17 months to go in his presidency, Bush is going to beat that easily. Still, all this governmental time off is more than most Americans are taking. A recent survey by Yahoo Hot Jobs found nearly half of American workers did not take all of their vacation days last year.

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