Holidays

So, here's a thought:

Why is the Friday after Thanksgiving still not a national holiday?

I mean, seriously.  Why doesn't the federal government make a holiday on this day?  Most companies give it off, but those that don't require parents to burn a PTO day just because schools are closed.

For that matter, why isn't the week between Christmas and New Years a week of national holidays?

The US has the fewest holidays of all industrialized countries and fewest PTO days.

The question I want to know is:  why?  Why do Americans put up with it?  We're a democracy, right?  Where's the bill to increase the number of mandatory vacation days?

And for that matter, companies should not be able to take away PTO days that employees have accrued.  It certainly doesn't seem that the American workers are protected at all.