Archive for November 19th, 2008
Auto Execs Fly Corporate Jets to D.C., Tin Cups in Hand
Auto Execs Fly Corporate Jets to D.C., Tin Cups in Hand (WashingtonPost)
There are 24 daily nonstop flights from Detroit to the Washington area. Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli probably should have taken one of them.
Instead, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers opted to fly their company jets to the capital for their hearings this week before the Senate and House — an ill-timed display of corporate excess for a trio of executives begging for an additional $25 billion from the public trough this week.
“There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands,” Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.) advised the pampered executives at a hearing yesterday. “It’s almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high-hat and tuxedo. . . . I mean, couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class or jet-pooled or something to get here?”
What a load of horse hockey!
If they didn’t need to fly coach, or ride Greyhound, why do they need our tax money to bail them out?! When most of us can’t afford to fly coach much less ride Greyhound half way across the country? Most of us couldn’t even afford to DRIVE OURSELVES half way across the country.
I am so disgusted, I could just puke.
