I haven't had a chance to read all of the articles Bucco. But I wanted to say this. I was just listening to a talk-radio program. The host, Neil Boortz, was talking about how government involvement in private business - especially healthcare - has, and is going, to continue to make full-time employment a thing of the past. Employers will move to temp services and part-time workers if the government keeps imposing costly requirements.

Boortz mentioned this story about Rep. Alan Grayson out of Florida introducing a bill to require some employers to provide paid vacations to employees!!!

"Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.
"So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.
"The bill would require companies with more than 100 employees to offer a week of paid vacation for both full-time and part-time employees after they’ve put in a year on the job. Three years after the effective date of the law, those same companies would be required to provide two weeks of paid vacation, and companies with 50 or more employees would have to provide one week."


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22794.html