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Originally Posted by Tahoe C5
Can you believe that the big three CEO's arrived in DC yesterday in separate private jets to go begging for $25 BILLION from the government i.e. taxpayers!! What a crock of s*#t!
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Not flying on a private jet for one day is hardly going to save the company from the brink of failure. It costs, what, $2,500 to operate the jet for one trip in comparison with the $25 billion they need? The mock outrage over this is is really just a political red herring. You think that congressmen don't fly around in private jets all the time?
The real outrage should be over bailing out yet another company without bailing out the shareholders, all while claiming that America is about free market capitalism. Let's all either stop giving that phrase lip service and stop giving hand-outs to inept companies who will fail regardless, or let's go whole-hog socialist and make the Detroit 3 into nationalized auto-makers.