November 22, 2009
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Vacation Starvation

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March/April 2000
Joe Robinson Escape (http://www.escapemag.com) 
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Courage for politicians is a little like El Niño it only shows up when the heat is applied. That's where we come in. Let's turn up the temperature on the candidates, congresspeople and local representatives and reclaim our time, our lives. Send faxes; hit their websites.

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While there's no doubt that we're the home of the brave, a nation ready to work till it drops, can we really be the land of the free with nine days off? I asked Lofgren to imagine what it would be like for him in the American vacation system, no five to seven weeks, just that long tunnel of 11 1/2 months. 'I would think, how could I survive? I would feel claustrophobic.'

'It's a question of priorities,' he added. 'In Europe, vacations are a basic facet of the quality of life.'

Are we not worthy?

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