President Obama Will be Mad at the French

People have complained about the French over the years about many things. Overpriced wine, haughty attitudes toward non-French speaking tourists (especially in Paris), losing wars (their soldiers are great, it was their political and military leadership who were not up to par with their counterparts), but now there is another reason to complain about the French - their average worker works more hours per week than President Obama.

 

The last in depth Analysis of the Presidential calendar was done in May of 2011 - before the campaign season began this year - and he averaged 4 hours per day of work based on the calendar that month - so he only worked 20 hours a week. Now this was the low month and is an extreme example. However, looking at the current calendar his "official" time working at the White House is actually even lower. With the campaign in full swing he is spending around 60 to 70% of his weekday work week on campaign visits.

 

Factoring in that he sometimes works on a weekend he may work another 4 hours in a seven day "week".

 

Now the time he spends on Air Force 1 is un-trackable - he could be working on real Presidential work while flying somewhere - but with the campaign in full swing he is more likely refining his campaign speech and getting advice on the campaign and not really doing any work at all. There are other times after he has thrown in a 15 minute visit or dedication at some venue (so as to not have to pay for the trip in-between campaign stops) that he may be actually working on Air Force 1 on Presidential items - but again we will never know that till some 50 to 75 years from now.

 

Taking into account of all this the current White House calendar shows him working on USA business just some 28 to 30 hours a week.

 

French workers work 35 hours a week.

 

This means that the average French worker works harder than the President of the United States.

 

This is totally unfair to the President.

 

He will demand, if he is elected again, that the French lower their maximum workings hours to 28 per week so that he can truthfully state that he works harder than the average French person.

 

After all, we do not want another item on the list of complaints that people have against France.