[Newsbot]

Title: Vacationing a human right, EU chief says
Category: World
Posted By: QBall
Date: 2010-04-19 13:08:58

[martin14]

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Intended to instill a sense of cultural pride in Europeans, Mr. Tajani's human-rights travel will also help bridge the continent's north-south divide and pad resorts' business in their off-season, the Times reports.

Payback for his Southern Italian friends who operate the resorts.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

Vacationing a human right, EU chief says

[Robair]

Insanity or genius?

I vote insanity.

[andyt]

Just pay people adequate wages, let them make their own decisions with what to do with their income. For those on welfare, they say a change is as good as a rest, so the change of actually working for a living should be all the vacation they need. Call em "Workations."

The one part of this that's a good idea, would be to have more travel opportunities for poor kids. Not to some lux resort, but maybe to a more positive environment, where they're treated right and can see the opportunities that might be out there for them, instead of just getting stuck on welfare.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Ummm wait a second here. Wasn't the EU championing the whole "carbon footprint" whackadoo nonsense? How is sending MORE people on vacation going to lessen that footprint??

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Ummm wait a second here. Wasn't the EU championing the whole "carbon footprint" whackadoo nonsense? How is sending MORE people on vacation going to lessen that footprint??

Given the airport closures I'm supposing that the Europeans will either be walking or bicycling to their destinations...and then collapsing from inhaling toxic silica dust.

[commanderkai]

Well, at least this is a sign that Europeans are too lazy to start World War III. So...that's good then.



How, exactly, does Europe have any industry left?

[xerxes]

Becuas they've realised that giving people paid vacations keeps them in good spirits and keeps them from losing productivity at their jobs. It sounds like laziness in Puritanical North America, but it works in Europe.

[commanderkai]

xerxes xerxes:

Becuas they've realised that giving people paid vacations keeps them in good spirits and keeps them from losing productivity at their jobs. It sounds like laziness in Puritanical North America, but it works in Europe.

I'm sorry, having vacations being considered a "Human Right" is a stretch. Having vacation time is one thing, having them considered to be a human right is something completely else entirely.

I'm not sure how exactly this is going to "work" in Europe. I smell major government involvement

[Bodah]

I can see it now, welfare checks comming in accompanied with the 2 mandatory tickets to the Bahamas.

[Bruce_the_vii]

Here in Canada we don't have the extremes of social spending that they have in the EU nor the short changing of the social net that they have in the United States. It's a middle way, the Canadian Way, and we may have our day yet.

[Brenda]

The Dutch get a minimum of 20 paid vacationdays, and often 13 paid days off they call another name. Most people get 25 paid days off, + those 13.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

commanderkai commanderkai:

xerxes xerxes:

Becuas they've realised that giving people paid vacations keeps them in good spirits and keeps them from losing productivity at their jobs. It sounds like laziness in Puritanical North America, but it works in Europe.

I'm sorry, having vacations being considered a "Human Right" is a stretch. Having vacation time is one thing, having them considered to be a human right is something completely else entirely.

Yeah, I'm not really sure about this one. I can't really see the need to make sure someone that only has to work 3-4 days a week has extended, paid vacation time. For those that are on welfare and still healthy, send them on a walking tour of a different town with some bags and those sticks you pick up trash with.
The only real place I could have any empathy for this idea is for the disabled who live off of bare nubbins.

[Brenda]

The disabled are well taken care of, don't worry.