First Time Ever: Majority Will Not Take Vacation

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Due to Obamanomics, for the first time ever, a majority of Americans- 55%- will not be taking a vacation.

But that's not going to stop The Obama:

www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_0719prezs_vacation_makes_little_ense_right_now/srvc=home&position=2

I love my summer vacation. I like President Obama more than most of you.

But a new Marist Poll says that for the first time ever a majority of American adults — 55 percent — will not be booking a summer vacation this year. They’re too worried about jobs and money. The “Staycation” of 2009 has morphed into the “Naycation” of 2011.

But Obama, who’s got us panicked over this debt-ceiling stalemate, will soon be off — again — to Blue Heron Farm, Martha’s Vineyard. Check out the pictures of this “farm” online. You practically drool. It looks like the centerfold of “Town & Country,” the magazine for aspiring zillionaires.

[Driftr]

We'll be driving to DC in a few weeks to spend a week with my brother and his family and we already have our Disney cruise paid for next Spring Break (driving there too). FWIW the boat is already full.

[Cookies Galore]

I'm taking three vacations this year.
Wait, four. I take off the week between Christmas and New Years's.

[lazysundays]

We just booked one week for $2k at a lakehouse.

[ugonow]

We just spent a week in Door County,Wi, and they said they were having a good season .

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

I'm on vacation right now. Staying a block from the beach at Delray Beach, FL, to chill downtown for a few days, and look at the Ocean. Been beautiful all week, so we're gonna stay another week. Wife wants to ride up to Orlando (in the middle of the summer, I know, right?) this weekend, so we'll probably go. Then it's off to Chicago and the family before school starts. We take about four months off a year. Difference is, we've earned it. I'm not the President. If I had his responsibility (and I took it seriously) I honestly can't see taking more than a few weeks a year-- like everyone else (if they have a job). I don't begrudge him the golfing-- I'd go twice a week if I had the means, and I could still get the job done. The only reason he has incurred so much wrath on the golfing is that the left made it such a big issue with Bush.

[jkapp]

Jul 19, 2011 8:38:06 GMT -5 ugonow said:

We just spent a week in Door County,Wi, and they said they were having a good season .

Hey I'll be going there mid August! But for me it will just be a day trip...I won't be staying overnight (unless I stay somewhere too late)

[privateinvestor]

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jul 19, 2011 9:00:59 GMT -5 @privateinvestor said:

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

Hippies always start out talking peace and love, but without God-- there is no love, no peace...

edited to remove the pic. that's absolutely not necessary here.
paul - I almost lost my breakfast!

-chiver78/Moderator

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Paul, that is not necessary.

[privateinvestor]

Hippies always start out talking peace and love, but without God-- there is no love, no peace...


Most of the so called "Hippies" who hung out at Haight and Ashbury are long gone....now we have what are called "Progressives"...just in case you were wondering??

[djAdvocate]

has Obama taken more time off than his predecessors?

[cme1201]

Jul 19, 2011 12:13:36 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

has Obama taken more time off than his predecessors?

Just like I ask my 7 year old, just because someone else did it does that make it right?

[djAdvocate]

Jul 19, 2011 12:18:58 GMT -5 cme1201 said:

Jul 19, 2011 12:13:36 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

has Obama taken more time off than his predecessors?

Just like I ask my 7 year old, just because someone else did it does that make it right?

no. but it doesn't necessarily make it wrong, either.

[floridayankee]

I take a vacation every weekend. It's good to have friends that live in a beachfront condo.

[rockon]

Our country would be better off if most of todays elected officials were voted a permanent vacation from their current responsibilities. Their actions or inaction clearly show that they have no clue how we got here or how to fix the problem. They are equivalent to a group of drug addicts who are debating if they should reduce the amount of drugs they are taking but have not even started to recognize that they actually have a serious problem that can only be helped by rehabilitation. Worse yet we the voters are equivalent to people with good intentions who want to help but only enable them to continue heading to the obvious rock bottom.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

We went to the coast for 3 days in March; that was nice. My wonderful DH had just returned from a multi-month "camping trip" in Iraq and didn't really want to take a longer vacation. He's been really busy since then, with no time for vacations. And he deploys again next month for yet another multi-month "camping trip" to exotic and warm locations. (And when he's gone I'm pretty much a stay-at-homebody.) But maybe in December when he's back we can go somewhere?

[moon/Laura]

In the last 6 yrs, i've taken one trip that could even be remotely described as vacation - that was to see the son i gave up for adoption when he graduated HS and turned 18.

otherwise, my normal schedule has me off either 3 or 4 days a week.. so if anything i may just take off an extra day. most of the time we only do something that spans 2 days, tops.

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

I haven't been on a vacation in almost four years.

[cme1201]

Jul 19, 2011 13:45:57 GMT -5 Mad Dawg Wiccan said:

I haven't been on a vacation in almost four years.

Same, even with the Beach an hour away, I can't find the time to work it into my schedule.

[Deleted]

I just got back from 8 days in Maui, but I feel like I already need another vacation. ugh

[cme1201]

Jul 19, 2011 13:47:53 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

I just got back from 8 days in Maui, but I feel like I already need another vacation. ugh

So are you




Obama



or



Bush?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jul 19, 2011 9:13:03 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jul 19, 2011 9:00:59 GMT -5 @privateinvestor said:

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

Hippies always start out talking peace and love, but without God-- there is no love, no peace...

edited to remove the pic. that's absolutely not necessary here.
paul - I almost lost my breakfast!

-chiver78/Moderator

Sorry, my point in response to that song from the heady days when God was dead, the Soviet Union was on the march around the world, and the hippie movement started and was heavily influenced by the KGB and other enemies of the United States was in full bloom all dressed up in a new, phony baloney "love" without God-- and so false teachers sprang up and easily deceived thousands of people...

The photos were of the murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson Family. Here is Charles Manson's San Francisco home:



Of course San Francisco was also the final home of The People's Temple, Pastor Jim Jones, before the Jonestown massacre in South America.

Temple insider Michael Prokes, who had been ordered to deliver a suitcase containing Temple funds to be transferred to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, committed suicide in March 1979, four months after the Jonestown incident.

In the days leading up to his death, Prokes sent notes to several people, together with a thirty-page statement he had written about Peoples Temple. Columnist Herb Caen reprinted one copy in his San Francisco Chronicle column. Prokes then arranged for a press conference in a Modesto, California, motel room, during which he read a statement to the eight reporters who attended. He then excused himself, entered a bathroom and fatally shot himself in the head.

Prior to the tragedy, Temple member Paula Adams had engaged in a romantic relationship with Guyana's Ambassador to the United States, Laurence "Bonny" Mann.[106] Adams later married Mann.[107] On October 24, 1983, Mann fatally shot both Adams and the couple's child, and then fatally shot himself.

Defecting member Harold Cordell lost 20 family members that evening during the poisonings. The Bogues family, which had also defected, lost their daughter Marilee (age 18), while defector Vernon Gosney lost his son Mark (age 5).

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Jul 19, 2011 13:48:57 GMT -5 cme1201 said:

Jul 19, 2011 13:47:53 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

I just got back from 8 days in Maui, but I feel like I already need another vacation. ugh

So are you




Obama



or



Bush?

At the moment I would much rather be Bush.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jul 19, 2011 12:13:36 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

has Obama taken more time off than his predecessors?

Yes. He has blown away the travel budget of his predecessors, and he played more golf his first 8 months in office than Bush played in 8 years.

[txbo]

I’m on vacation 365/24/7; the problem is that it is mostly in Texas. It’s like living in Hell yet everyone is telling you that you are actually in heaven. In Texas heaven is a good air conditioner.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jul 19, 2011 13:47:53 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

I just got back from 8 days in Maui, but I feel like I already need another vacation. ugh

Vacation from your vacation, huh?

I call that work. I love my work, but I like to see everything I do through to the end. I like to sleep until I wake up, and I like to vacation until I'm done vacationing. I never liked being on someone else's timeline. I like to take lunch for however long it takes. I like to take a break when it's time to take a break until I'm done taking a break. And I like to work as well- I like to work until the work is done. I never liked leaving at a particular time because it was time to go- I like to finish things.

[Driftr]

Jul 19, 2011 14:02:32 GMT -5 txbo said:

In Texas heaven is a good air conditioner.

Amen to that. Ours has been having trouble keeping up lately. We have it set at 76 and it hits 80 around 5:00 each day. This heat wave has been brutal. Water bill was just the highest it's ever been. I don't think the veggies I'm pulling from my garden are quite worth what I'm investing in them in sweat and water these days...

[chiver78]

Jul 19, 2011 13:49:31 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jul 19, 2011 9:13:03 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Hippies always start out talking peace and love, but without God-- there is no love, no peace...

edited to remove the pic. that's absolutely not necessary here.
paul - I almost lost my breakfast!

-chiver78/Moderator

Sorry, my point in response to that song from the heady days when God was dead, the Soviet Union was on the march around the world, and the hippie movement started and was heavily influenced by the KGB and other enemies of the United States was in full bloom all dressed up in a new, phony baloney "love" without God-- and so false teachers sprang up and easily deceived thousands of people...

The photos were of the murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson Family. Here is Charles Manson's San Francisco home:



Of course San Francisco was also the final home of The People's Temple, Pastor Jim Jones, before the Jonestown massacre in South America.

Temple insider Michael Prokes, who had been ordered to deliver a suitcase containing Temple funds to be transferred to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, committed suicide in March 1979, four months after the Jonestown incident.

In the days leading up to his death, Prokes sent notes to several people, together with a thirty-page statement he had written about Peoples Temple. Columnist Herb Caen reprinted one copy in his San Francisco Chronicle column. Prokes then arranged for a press conference in a Modesto, California, motel room, during which he read a statement to the eight reporters who attended. He then excused himself, entered a bathroom and fatally shot himself in the head.

Prior to the tragedy, Temple member Paula Adams had engaged in a romantic relationship with Guyana's Ambassador to the United States, Laurence "Bonny" Mann.[106] Adams later married Mann.[107] On October 24, 1983, Mann fatally shot both Adams and the couple's child, and then fatally shot himself.

Defecting member Harold Cordell lost 20 family members that evening during the poisonings. The Bogues family, which had also defected, lost their daughter Marilee (age 18), while defector Vernon Gosney lost his son Mark (age 5).

you could have just as easily made your point with words and non-vomit inducing photos like you've done in this post. you're not a rookie on this board, paul. you absolutely should know better than to post something like that!

after chatting amongst ourselves, us moderators are pretty disgusted as a group. consider this strike 2, enjoy your week off.

-chiver78/Moderator

[mmhmm]

While Manson lived for a short time in the home pictured, paul, it wasn't his home. He rented an apartment in it, as did others.