[Vision2020] U.S. House of Representatives 2013 Calendar

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 11/30/2012 7:11 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
>
> 126 days.
>
> That's how many days the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to 
> be in session next year, according to the schedule released Friday by 
> House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
>
> The first day of the 113th Congress will be Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. 
> The House will be in session eight days in January.
>
> Starting in February, the House will be in session no fewer than 11 
> days each month until August, when the summer recess begins. The final 
> day of session before recess is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. 
> The House will be back in session on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013.
>
> The number of days the House will be in session (a month-by-month 
> breakdown):
>
> January — 8
>
> February — 11
>
> March — 12
>
> April — 12
>
> May — 12
>
> June — 16
>
> July — 14
>
> August — 2
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> September — 9
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> October — 14
>
> November — 8
>
> December — 8
>
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>
> Now, what was that about teachers?

Yeah, and what about everyone else?

May the rest of us work only 126 days per year and have it considered as 
full-time work?

If more work needs to be done, more people could be hired to work the 
complementary schedules.

Would not that go a long way to help our national unemployment rate?

Would not that give many people more time to become better parents, 
better children, better friends, and all-round better people?

Parents who have had their children forced into four-days-per-week 
school schedules have come to value their three-day weekends.

I suspect that many people would value the freedom of the extra days 
off, and would want to protect them for their own choices of activities.

They very well might want to protect them with revised over-time laws. 
They well might ask "May we have triple-time over-time for all hours 
above 32 per week, and less than 40 per week, and quintuple-time 
over-time for all hours 40 and above per week?" Yes, some might like the 
over-time pay, but others might like even more the lower probability of 
being asked to work more hours, thus allowing them more real freedom for 
life -- their own life -- rather than the life of an employing 
organization, and other-person managerial control, and the possible 
exploitation, that may involve.

Congress people get great retirement benefits after only one term in 
office. Performing a Kantian multiplication of that idea to everyone 
would surely lead to trouble quickly, so we won't go down that road. The 
road we are already likely to travel will probably quite bad enough, 
thank you. Fortunately, that is another topic, so it does not need to be 
addressed in this message.


Ken
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