Oh crap, hide the caviar and act poor
Hello corporate pigs, has nobody told you how to behave when the trough is empty? For starters don’t use your company lear jets to fly you back and forth from Washington (save that for your golfing holidays).Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli the chief executive from the “Big Three” (Chrysler, General Motors and Ford) felt a little hog tied when they were confronted by a not so welcoming Senate and House. The execs were there to beg for an additional $US25 billion out of taxpayer funded money trough. Democrat representative Gary Ackerman got the party started with this little line “There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, DC, and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands,” (ouch). Our three little piggies just sat in stunned silence at the witness table. Oh and then came this king hit from Democrat Brad Sherman “I’m going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial,” (can someone smell bacon?).Later Republican Peter Roskam asked if any of them would be willing to work for $1 a year. Mr Mulally snorted “I think I’m OK where I am,” (oink, oink) .I am guessing the three little piggies will be squealing all the way home in their corporate jets.
2 Comments
November 21, 2008 at 3:59 pm
The auto companies sent multi-millionaires on private jets to plead for free money. That’s like sending obese restaurant owners to plead for free food.
November 21, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Even funnier, they couldn’t tell the Senate or the House how they were going to spend the $25 billion if they got it. Wasn’t that the whole point of the exercise, to plead their case? Even a basic small business has a friggin business plan!