Reply #8: jesus effin' christ, let us try being reality based for a moment [View All]

you have a nation where hundreds of millions of people are either christian or of christian heritage and are obligated to show up and put in an appearance at the family home for the holidays

it is just simple common sense that you need to declare a holiday and be realistic about it because otherwise everyone will just have to call in sick anyways

christ

i don't think we need to get on a crusade to get rid of one of the very, very, very few days off that americans enjoy -- we already have fewer days off than any other civilized nation

christmas needs to be a federal holiday because otherwise the corporate scrooges would work us to death on that day as well as all others, it is not like there is any great number of federal holidays you know!

once progressives fought to get us more time off, not less