Why Easter Is Not a 3 Day Weekend

Today is Good Friday. I think most Christians recognize that but only the Catholics do anything about it. Maybe the Lutherans too, but I digress. I had to work today. I think most people did. My children had to go to school, but some people's children did not have school today. I think they attend private Christian schools who let out for Good Friday and Easter Monday. Yeah, I'd never heard of Easter Monday either but my Dilbert calendar lists it, as well as Easter Saturday. Apparently Canada and Australia like their Easter to last.
In the US most people can expect to get out of quite a bit of work around Christmas, but not other religious holidays. And I say "other religious holidays" meaning the religious holidays of other religions since Christmas and Easter are the only Christian holidays that I can think of (at least in the US). I'll just ignore the Utahans claiming the 24th of July.
So why does the US Government have no problem shutting down the economy for Christmas but not for Easter? Could it be the that the vast commercialization of Christmas allows for a day off from spending since we had just finished blowing the budget all month anyway? Could it be that Easter is always on a Sunday which most people have off anyway? That may be a part of it, but I don't believe it's the root cause.
The answer, like so many simple questions in primary, is Jesus. The US Government doesn't know what to do about Jesus. They can accept that He was born, and that a lot of people like Him, but that's about the extent of it. They can't accept that He was resurrected, and that in consequence all of us will be resurrected. If everyone will live again, and will live immortally, it causes serious budgeting issues. Will the recently un-departed be re-given social security benefits? Will the military pensions of Revolutionary War soldiers have to be paid? Where are all these immortals going to live, surely not on the streets? We'll have a whole new kind of housing crisis.
So the next time you hear someone talking about why the Atheistic/Socialistic Canadians get extra religious holidays off you can be assured that it is because their Atheistic/Socialistic government understands the dynamics of resurrected beings. Feel free to expound on this topic in your Sunday School classes this weekend.