Federal Holiday Changes

[jaF0]

New Years day is nothing and doesn't recognize any major historical events. Drop it.

There are a few days in January and February named for individuals of Historical Significance. Combine them to one without naming any single person. NO Federal Holiday should be named after any single person.

Memorial Day ... See below.

Independence Day is fine.

Labor Day ... mixed feelings.

Columbus Day ... abolish or rename it.

Veteran's Day ... do we really need both this and Memorial Day? Is there a reason for two?

Thanksgiving Day ... memorializing the slaughter of Native Americans? Really?

Christmas Day ... a religious holiday that should not be a Federal Holiday. Rename it and combine it with New Years Day somehow to have a winter holiday for all people.

 

[pecksniff]

New Years day is nothing and doesn't recognize any major historical events. Drop it.

What, and go to work hung over?!

 

[nowisthetime]

Face it, we all love holidays, especially when we get off work.

 

[pecksniff]

One day that should be a holiday is X-Day. Praise "Bob"!

 

[jomar]

What, and go to work hung over?!

Exactly, it's an OSHA mandated holiday.

 

[jaF0]

Face it, we all love holidays, especially when we get off work.

But if you're off work you can't get off at work.

 

[YDB95]

New Years day is nothing and doesn't recognize any major historical events. Drop it.

That one I could see, though it would cut way down on partying the night before.

There are a few days in January and February named for individuals of Historical Significance. Combine them to one without naming any single person. NO Federal Holiday should be named after any single person.

We fought too long and hard for Martin Luther King Day to abolish it now, and his legacy is under constant attack from people who only know one line from one speech. Now more than ever, we need to keep it.

Columbus Day ... abolish or rename it.

Agreed, we could switch it for Juneteenth, which is far more worth celebrating.

Veteran's Day ... do we really need both this and Memorial Day? Is there a reason for two?

Veterans' Day is for the ones who made it home, Memorial Day is for those who didn't. I have no problem with having both.

Thanksgiving Day ... memorializing the slaughter of Native Americans? Really?

Racist origin or not, that's not really what it's commemorating. It long ago became a celebration of family togetherness, and I think the way we've taken to vilifying that is one reason why most white people vote Republican.

Christmas Day ... a religious holiday that should not be a Federal Holiday. Rename it and combine it with New Years Day somehow to have a winter holiday for all people.

My head agrees, my heart doesn't. Of course, even if we renamed it something nonreligious, everyone would still know it was centered on Christmas. Any Jewish American will tell you Hanukkah isn't really that big a deal - it'd be like Christians prioritizing Candlemas over Easter. So if you're going to have a holiday centered on Christmas, you might as well at least be honest about it.

 

[Farleven]

Gah! The whole notion of getting rid of holidays is pretty crazy to me. It's hard enough getting all to many employers to give their employees enough off time without taking away the few national holidays we have.

I'm living in Japan at the moment, and they have like 30 nation holidays that hit the level of offices and schools being closed. It breaks down to around a week at new years, a week in may and a week in august plus one or two days off every month.

So when you hear about how little vacation time Japanese take, they never mention that they get 6 weeks off a year before anyone has to take any personal vacation time. Granted, they do have a kind of a work ethic, it's not like the western one philosophically, but many people wouldn't take their vacation time. However, you can't go to work if the office is closed... Personally, I think some relatively smart people at the top realized this some long time ago and created all those holidays to make sure people got the breaks they needed.

So, please, don't mess with the holidays, rename them if you want, add some more, and we really should require triple overtime pay for anyone required to work on them. Working people deserve a break up and down the ladder.

 

[CornusKousa]

Racist origin or not, that's not really what it's commemorating. It long ago became a celebration of family togetherness, and I think the way we've taken to vilifying that is one reason why most white people vote Republican.

Other than the racist bullshit part about this only applying to white people, it doesn't.

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[CornusKousa]

As far as the federal government is concerned, I wouldn't mind holiday consolidation.

Winter holiday....whatever you celebrate at the end of the year, make it a big one with a good chunk of flexible time off.

VIP day...you get a long weekend to commemorate the people who did important shit for this nation. Political leaders, inventors, great minds, social movement leaders, citizen heroes etc. Make an official registry of people the holiday recognizes and why. Done.

Spring break...duh, again flexible for people to use for their own spring holidays.

I personally wouldn't mind memorial and veterans day all on the 4th of July. I can't think of a more appropriate day to honor those that first put EVERYTHING on the line to found the nation and those who have continued that tradition to keep it, than the day that tradition started, the 4th of July.

Summer holiday....like winter holiday but in the summer.

Thanksgiving Day isn't memorializing the slaughter of Native Americans, that's just the insane SJW justification used to greenlight bashing it. I agree with YDB, it's a celebration of family togetherness and I 100% think that's what most lefties REALLY hate about it so much. Roll it into the the "Fall holiday" lineup along with the others and let people do their own thing.

That's it. Everything else should be administrative/personal, fill out your paperwork, celebrate your own bullshit on your time, no need for the feds to force whatever non-national/federal bullshit down everyone's throat.