Posted on 01/27/2009 7:42:38 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The money ceases becoming ours after the federales mug us each April 15th.
Obama and Congress are projecting.
Yes how much did hers cost initially and how much is it costing the tax payers on a yearly basis to keep it flying?
..and the 600 privately own jets that flew in for the inaug?...another case of selective rage? sure it's stupid to flaunt, but is it not stupid or arrogance to award 4 billion to ACORN? an organization under investigation for voter fraud?...what say you Gibbs?
More outrageous than a bankrupt bank spending $50 million on a corporate jet is our being in a position where the Furher Obama’s proclamations on how automobile manufacturers and banks spend their money is the de facto law of the land.
i heard also that it isn’t even american made,,,,go figure...
I’m sure they ordered this before the crisis and would haves broken a contract to cancel it.
*Fuhrer*
Gee, I could have sworn over 600 private jets flew elites to Washington DC just last week for some kind of party at taxpayer expense.
Could have sworn Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid routinely fly in gulf streams at taxpayer expense.
They can keep the jet and sell it, and kep that money in lieu of a bailout.
What he heck does bailout even mean anymore? It means let companies who donated to a congressman’s campaign charge stuff on Uncle Sam’s credit card with no promise to repay. D
Don’t worry, you and I, the taxpayers, will bend over and pick up the tab. Where’s the revolt? Where’s the tax holiday until the economy gets better?
The taxpayers go along because they still have two things that politicans and their financiers don’t have: shame and pride. And they are being exploited for it. These bailouts are like a Kmart store closing sale: once they are finished the country’s treasurt will be picked over and there will be nothing left to use to assist he middle class. What’s worse, there will be an entitled calss who have given each golden parachutes on the middle class dime, excpet now they’ll have more government power to lord it over honest workers than ever.
PS - Are corporate bailouts “trickle down economics???”
Feel free to answer or address any of the above, anyone.
These people at CITI are so tone deaf they should be shot.
The fact that this would be approved after a bailout speaks volumes as to why they are where they are today.
>>Obama “doesn’t believe” business jets are the “best use of money,” said Gibbs.
“Then he’ll be giving up Air Force One, right?”
What did he think of all those private jets that brought his sycophants to the Inaguration?
Boy, oh, Boy ! How'd you like to be the supplier of that jet, who delivered on a contract that you had with citibank, and just got stiffed for $50 million ?
Ridiculous comparison.
Did you complain in 2000 or in 2004?
Didn’t CITI donate $8 million (of our money) to the inauguration?
Nah. Start with the big dog welfare queens, like Wall Street and the banks.
Well what do you expect. You give away money with no ‘PRECONDITIONS” of course when you have a president who has run nothing but his mouth.
Glad I don’t work for an airplane manufacturer. Why with all you class warriors out there I don’t know how much longer I’d have a job.
All the media have to do is to report a troubled company that received bailout money is spending it and envy mongers come out of the wood work.
Let me ask you this. What if Citigroup spent millions of dollars at the company you work at? I bet you wouldn’t be screaming.
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