Lou Dobbs: American workers deserve as much vacation as the 'hard-working British'
Lou Dobbs offered a comment on vacation time in America Tuesday on CNN. "President Bush has already taken more than 400 vacation days and ... he's on track to shatter the vacation record set by President Ronald Reagan," Dobbs began, adding that Congress is also falling far short of working five days a week.
"How do our elected officials compare to workaday folks in this country?" Dobbs asked. "Well, one of every four working Americans receives no paid vacation whatsoever, and more than 40% of us didn't take a straight week off from work last year."
"Italian workers average more than 40 days of vacation each and every year," continued Dobbs. "The French and the Germans, they get a lousy 35 days a year. And the British? Well, they're the hard workers in Europe. They get 28 days of vacation, which of course is more than twice the vacation most Americans get. ... I would like to see the American worker get at least as much time off as, say, those hard-working British. That's the least the American worker deserves."
Dobbs further added, in response to a question, "The idea that our president, this Congress take time off when we have men and women dying in Iraq, Afghanistan ... there's something at best unseemly about it. ... With all the issues, serious issues confronting the country, they should be hard at work."
The following video is from CBS's Early Show, broadcast on August 14.
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