2/20/2012, 9:08 pm
Just weeks after 17-day Hawaii vacation FLATUS and spawn reinforce the Standing Policy of "Let then eat cake..." while taking an Aspen ski trip. There must be a buffet...
https://washingtonexaminer.com/politics ... ons/294051
The Obama Vacation List
-- President's Day 2012, Michelle and the first daughters in Aspen, Colorado to ski.-- Christmas 2011, the first family in Hawaii for an extended vacation.
-- Summer 2011, in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., for the annual beach break.
-- June 2011, the first lady, her mother and daughters traveled to South Africa and Botswana.
-- President's Day 2011, the first lady and first daughters travel to Vail to ski.
-- Christmas 2010, in Hawaii.
-- August 2010, the first family traveled to Panama City Beach, Fla., for some sun and fun at the beach.
-- August 2010, Obama spent the weekend alone in Chicago for his 49th birthday bash.
-- August 2010, the first lady and daughter Sasha traveled to Spain for a mother-daughter vacation.
-- August 2010, summer vacation again at Martha's Vineyard.
-- July 2010, the first family went to Mount Desert Island, Maine.
-- May 2010, the first family had a four-day trip to Chicago.
-- March 2010, first lady and daughter spend Spring Break in New York City.
-- Christmas 2009, Hawaii again for the annual break.
-- August 2009, at Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon for a short vacation.
-- August 2009, their first summer vacation as first family at Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
MEANWHILE in other news...
https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U ... 0-11-04-08
Feb 20, 4:26 PM EST
For boomers, it's a new era of 'work til you drop'
By JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
(From the article...)
Until then he plans to keep working, which is what every physically able boomer should consider doing, says USC's Lawler.
Union membership, which has been declining for years, now includes only about 10 percent of all eligible U.S. employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, the number of defined benefit retirement funds offered by private enterprise have fallen from about one in three employers in 1990 to about one in five in 2005.
With unions no longer in a strong position to fight for benefits like pensions, with jobs disappearing or going overseas, and with Gen Xers and even younger Millennial Generation members coveting their jobs, Lawler warns this is no time for boomers to quit and allow the skills they've spent a lifetime building to atrophy.
"My advice is above all don't retire," he says. "If you like your job at all, hold onto it. Because getting back in in this era is essentially impossible."
Dear Leader's wife must have had all she can stand. Where may I make a donation to the vacation fund? Clearly my taxes are not enough to keep FLATUS in DC and her offspring in school for any length of time. Those poor children. Who will eat their school lunches back in DC? What will the shippers of live lobster in the captiol region do in this unexpected off-season? I grow weary of pondering such importance...
