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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/30/2012 7:11 PM, Tom Hansen
wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">126 days.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first day of the 113th Congress
will be Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The House will be in session
eight days in January.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The number of days the House will
be in session (a month-by-month breakdown):</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">January — 8</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">February — 11</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">March — 12</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April — 12</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">May — 12</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">June — 16</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">July — 14</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">August — 2</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">September — 9</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">October — 14</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">November — 8</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">December — 8</span></p>
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<div>Now, what was that about teachers?<span
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Yeah, and what about everyone else?<br>
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May the rest of us work only 126 days per year and have it
considered as full-time work?<br>
<br>
If more work needs to be done, more people could be hired to work
the complementary schedules.<br>
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Would not that go a long way to help our national unemployment rate?<br>
<br>
Would not that give many people more time to become better parents,
better children, better friends, and all-round better people?<br>
<br>
Parents who have had their children forced into four-days-per-week
school schedules have come to value their three-day weekends.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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<br>
Ken<br>
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