Posted on 11/19/2008 7:33:33 AM PST by Dukes Travels
The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy.
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Worthless executives. Let them go begging for money on the streets of Detroit like they deserve to.
Let ‘em beg from the UNIONS and the LIEberals they always donate to every election.
Reminds me of the big carbon footprint left by the world celebrities who jetted to London for Al Gore’s global warming concert on July 7, 2007.
The CEOs are ok as long as they buy their carbon credits.
You take a typical man or woman, give them money, power, celebrity, or all three and they almost always lose touch with reality.
Would they rather the CEO’s took flights paid for by taxpayers? Clearly, they want the CEO’s to be dragged down to middle-class levels, as always. The media would complain if the CEO’s flew first-class, too. Anything but business class on Delta, at best, and the journalism majors would whine. They are truly the vanguard of the envy class.
I’ve always known that people in the auto industry live in their own little world, but this level of delusion surprises even me.
It’s breathtaking!
Bad PR. They should have walked!
Why is it that the Left, including ABC News, doesn’t care or mention that Al Gore flies around in his own private jet while bemoaning Global Warming.
I drove from Michigan to Washington D.C. and back last week. Spent less than $150 on gas.
Of course, I was driving a Nissan.
I would be willing to bet that behind closed doors these executives would love to see the unions busted from all of this.
The three could combine selecting the top of the talent pool and create proper pay schedules based on the market and rocket our automotive capability to the top of world car food chain.
It is amazing how many of these liberal do-good programs always end up ultimately hurting the very people they were originally created to protect.
You put an old metal song in my head...
You take a mortal man,
And put him in control.
Watch him become a god,
Watch peoples heads all roll.
They should have driven one of their SUVs and fueled it with ethanol
Why, without a bailout they might have to downgrade from a G500 to a G450! How cruel can you get!!!!!!!...............
I'm in full agreement, and so are many other Americans. A current co-worker was part of the airline union when it was busted, and she openly advocates for the same treatment for the auto industry's unions.
We are planning the same trip this w/e for $59.82 in Diesel. ;-), With 3 people and a dog.
Just more of the same Motor City madness.
No real change planned or imagined. Do as I say, not as I do.
Don't know which is worse....the UAW's intransigence in the face of imminent disaster or the ineffectiveness of the big three's leadership and their bloated corporate lifestyle.
Only a Chapter 11 will force them to see and react to the realities that competition on a world-wide basis is here to stay and demands their attention.
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Oh come on. Here you have three companies that are bleeding money, that only have a few months to live at their current burn rate, and instead of taking a commercial flight (first class even) they take private jets that cost $5-$10,000 *an hour* to fly?
For that matter, why aren’t the private jets on the auction block?
I seem to recall that a certain Governor of Alaska put the state’s up for sale.
If you want a government loan (which comes out of OUR tax monies) then you better grovel and act humble and start acting like you’re going to slash costs and be fiscally prudent.
You can start by restructuring the 2010 UAW contracts to apply tomorrow and making Wagoner work for a $1/yr and earn his salary in worthless GM stock. If he believes GM will turnaround he can work for the stock. That’s what Steve Jobs did when he returned to a dying Apple.
If this results in in the UAW going the way of the dinosaur and “job banks” becoming a historical footnote?
Bring on the pain.
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