Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds
Auto Industry Close to Bankruptcy But They Get Pricey Perk
By BRIAN ROSS and JOSEPH RHEE
November 19, 2008


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.

More here:ABC News: Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

And we're supposed to believe the BS that the average person will be hurt if there isn't a bailout. It's more like these overpaid CEOs want to continue their lavish lifestyles - using the peons' money while the peons are screwed. An automotive bailout will be just another part of the biggest theft in history.

We ain't seen nothing yet.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

I don't have a 'principle' problem with the bailout. I'm extremely disappointed by the way it's turned out, though. It's like giving spoiled children fistfuls of $100 bills and telling them they can buy whatever they want.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a principle problem with the idea that we are a capitalist nation that becomes socialist in order to bail out bad decisions. It seems that "we the people" are getting screwed - always getting the brown smelly end of the stick.

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

Anyone notice how no one is talking about bad assests, toxic loans and the like any more? We are not even half way addressing one issue before we move onto the next "killer" problem facing us.

Until "we the people" stop electing them it will continue.

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