i am by NO means

sticking up for these guys. i know if i met them i wouldn't like them. they're NOT my kind o' peeps. i know this article is 100% on point. the big three auto makers (of the good ol' white boy network mind you) made a GIANT mistake by flying those (separate) corporate jets to dc. however, why are we singling THEM out? why didn't we put up a BIG STINK on some of the OTHER companies we actually DID 'bail out' (although the bail out doesn't seem to be working now does it)? why not bring THEIR asses out front and ask THEM some embarrassing questions. such as what type of bonuses do the execs get? what sort of perks do they get? what sorts of trips and parties are you going to plan within ahhhhhhhhhh lets say two months of us giving you billions and billions of dollars? what the government did was wrong. they put money into the hands of the WRONG people and organizations. joe and josette six pack are STILL suffering and will continue to do so. i don't even know how i feel about bailing out the auto industry. i know we've ALREADY made way too many mistakes though

Auto Execs Fly Corporate Jets to D.C., Tin Cups in Hand
By Dana Milbank
There are 24 daily nonstop flights from Detroit to the Washington area. Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli probably should have taken one of them. Instead, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers opted to fly their company jets to the capital for their hearings this week before the Senate and House -- an ill-timed display of corporate excess for a trio of executives begging for an additional $25 billion from the public trough this week.

"There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands," Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.) advised the pampered executives at a hearing yesterday. "It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high-hat and tuxedo. . . . I mean, couldn't you all have downgraded to first class or jet-pooled or something to get here?" ..............