Whats up with it being Presidents Day and why do only government workers get it off?
80249
its not only government workers. i get it off too. No School! i don't think students qualify as government workers, do they?
469336
When the President signs a Bill into being a Law, a lot of people want to have "the pen the president used to sign this particular bill into law"\n\nThe pans become valuable gifts/keepsakes.\n\nIt's like people love to own the football used in the SuperBowl - they put a different ball in after every play so they can have a lot of balls that were used in the Superbowl.\n\nThere were a lot of General Lee cars used in The Dukes of Hazzard t.v. show, and now lots of people can claim to have the 'actual' General Lee.
81183
it's a federal public holiday, so the entire US does. yes.
589272
May Day used to be a religous Holiday in most European countries. It was taken over by the lefties of the world.
806431
Some jobs, like firemen and doctors, should, as those jobs are necessary round the clock. For others, regardless of religion, everyone needs a day off.
915523
No it is not.\n\nToday is a Federal Holiday to celebrate our brave heros.
895504
yes; it is up to the individual employer to give the day off; state and federal employees are the exception; they get the day off; everyone else is at the option of the employer; look at nurses and hospital staff ; all of them don't get the day off
433050
Most likely for the same reason that black government workers enjoy taking the day off for the Confederate Memorial Day (offered in GA) and white government workers enjoy taking MLK Jr. Day off.  They don't celebrate the traditional holiday itself, they just enjoy the holiday time off of work.
695685
I don't even know what freedom day is, never heard of it.  Do you mean 4th of July?\n\nEnough election coverage, the put simpsons and seinfeld back on, now!!!
14206
There is no law that says you get any day off.\n\nNow Government workers might get the day off and certain other unions might negotiate to get the day off, but really its up to the employer.
643951
Because every other day of the year, except Father's and Mother's day, is children's day!\n\nActually, it started from one person(can't remember her name but it was a girl), who appreciates her mom very much... She invented this whole Mother's Day for her mom. The idea spread far and wide somehow... anyway, the president at that time officially declared the 2nd sunday of May as Mother's Day!
808443
You answered your own question. They are Civil Servants and get paid, vacations,  retirement,  and days off even if they never finish anything.
353321
Get a grip.  Executive orders have been around since the birth of the nation.  The US isn't about you or anyone else.  If you or I should die to further the cause of the US, then so be it.  And that goes for anyone else to, lest people think the USA won't get by without them.
13510
In the U.S. it will be a federal government holiday. No mail delivery and government offices will be closed.
333329
May day signifies the day of the working class. All those who work, especially those not in the executive or management cadre, irrespective of whether they work in factories, offices, banks, other organisations etc., celebrate May day. This practice originally started in the erstwhile Soviet Union, and subsequently spread to other areas of the world. This is how it has become a Bank Holiday(UK).
165554
I think it's white shoes, pants, or skirt that you're not supposed to wear after Labor Day.  Anyway, it's really outdated and people do it all the time.  Definitely not a fashion faux-pas any longer.
33771
I'm fairly sure that it's a national day off from school. I don't even have school and I'm in college!\n\nIf by day off you mean today, MLK Jr. day.