Posted on 01/20/2009 11:46:22 AM PST by Vision Thing
For the wealthy, Tuesday’s inauguration is the dream party: a chance to rub elbows with the similarly rich and powerful, to become part of a historic moment, and (most importantly), to get access to the man of the moment.
It also is a chance to drown their financial sorrows in an emotional wave of optimism.
Yet it may come as a surprise that at a time of financial crisis and Green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet.
According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in D.C. for the inauguration. The runway at Washington Dulles was closed Saturday to allow as many as 100 small planes to park. And the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said it expected a total of 500 small jets to land from Jan. 16 through Jan 21.
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How much did they ante up in carbon credits, that’s gotta be some footprint.
The Audacity of Hypocrisy
See how the Greenies indulge themselves in that which they condemn the little people? What jerks!
“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!”
James 5:1-3
Coming soon.
Damn wealthy Republicans and their private jets anyway.
Yet the myth of rich Republicans will never die, thanks mostly to the media and the popular culture that is totally out of touch from reality.
The Audacity of Socialist Hypocrisy...
Limo liberals take to the sky.
The Left is its own worst nightmare.
That’s why they are the ruling party class (see USSR) living the high life, guarded with guns and a fawning, lying media while they make the stinky, unwashed masses live in squalor (see China, Cuba, Zimbabwe).
The revolution is coming, and it will not involve flowers.
Obama’s fault.
Dog bites man story in my view.
Remember, these are the clowns that proclaimed ‘The Academy has gone GREEN!’ while six MILES of limo’s were idling outside for four to seven hours.
Many “ordinary” citizens Inaugural Balls canceled too.
I hear you.
Not the least bit surprising. To be expected. Rich leftist and Hollywood sorts are the most shameless of hypocrites. And their hypocrisy will in no way prevent them from preaching their green nonsense and global warming at the next opportunity.
This is a well known fact.
I’m with you on this one, and I hope every last demo,left wing retarded paper pushing company goes out of business. A well derserved act.
Shame on them for leaving carbon footprints! In order to make up for their footprints, the peasents will have to cut back on their energy use.
There are far more elitists in the democratic party, than there are in the republican party.
And the thing is, they don’t have to pretend anymore. They won, so they can let it all hang out.
Dats Not Change!!!! Dats More of da Same!!!!!!!!
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