did it anger you when the CEO's flew to washington?
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The question should really be:
"Are you, the taxpayer, willing to pay for the "braintrust" of GM/Ford/Chrysler to travel on private aircraft, despite their inability to afford said travel themselves?"
If they have the money to do it, I could care less if they flew on jets nicer than Air Force One. However, if I'm going to pay for it, their @$$e$ better be flying coach or business class.
Yeah, sure the press made a mountain of a molehill like usual, but you have to admit, it was a real dumbass move on the CEOs' part.
"Are you, the taxpayer, willing to pay for the "braintrust" of GM/Ford/Chrysler to travel on private aircraft, despite their inability to afford said travel themselves?"
If they have the money to do it, I could care less if they flew on jets nicer than Air Force One. However, if I'm going to pay for it, their @$$e$ better be flying coach or business class.
Yeah, sure the press made a mountain of a molehill like usual, but you have to admit, it was a real dumbass move on the CEOs' part.
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No, I don't have to admit that, because I don't believe it. The argument has been made many times over why it would make more sense for them to fly a private plane, so I won't get into it, but I'm not nearly as stirred up (read: not stirred up at all) as the idiots that fawned over all the bad press they got for it.
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No, I don't have to admit that, because I don't believe it. The argument has been made many times over why it would make more sense for them to fly a private plane, so I won't get into it, but I'm not nearly as stirred up (read: not stirred up at all) as the idiots that fawned over all the bad press they got for it.
Again not that I care, but IMO it's how people see it.
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From: Sandy VJJville
I don't care if they fly on their own private jets. However when you're begging the government for $34 billion and you just wasted $30,000 on a single flight to Washington, that's just asking for people to wonder why we should bail them out.
Again not that I care, but IMO it's how people see it.
Again not that I care, but IMO it's how people see it.
And I imagine each of those CEO's and their entourage spent the whole flight going over preparations for the hearing (grilling) which they wouldn't have been able to do on a commercial flight whether they were in coach, business, or first class.
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Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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From: Sandy VJJville
Well that, and it begs the question "What else are they wasting their money on?" For example, the "job bank". That's much worse than the private jet thing IMO. If you're going to pay people NOT TO WORK, their @$$e$ better be RETIRED.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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