JET SETTERS IN CONGRESS ATTACK AUTO JET JOCKEYS

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One of the more pathetic stories today is how the private jet setters in Congress scored points off of the gnomes running Detroit into the ground, coming to Congress on private jets to beg for US taxpayer bail out money.  The hot attacks by our very corrupt Congress, screeching at the corruptors from Detroit, daring to show up in private jets, is very ironic.

 

For Congress LOVES private jets. So do our Presidential candidates and our rulers and nearly everyone connected with the collapse of the US economy and our deepening debts.  As usual, the media won’t report this correctly.  They want to orchestrate American viewers into hating the heads of dying industries, not examining the true nature of what is going on here.  There are fleets and fleets of private jets and all of these are indications of corruption, venality and selling the US down the economic river and into the Red Ink Sea of debt.

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This story is very hot, of course.  Right on the heels of AIG demanding an endless bail out that might reach a trillion dollars, then going off to party, Detroit car presidents came to Congress to demand the same party rights.  One of the owners of autos going under is the überhöllehund itself,  Money Matters: Cerebus, The Hell Hound Hedge Fund.

So, the dogs of Hell are going to take over more and more parts of the auto industry? General Motors isn’t about building good cars, it is about the stupid, noxious carry-trade/loans for Americans business that is killing our industrial base and destroying our country’s future.

As usual, reading older Culture of Life News stories pays off.  I went to Cerebus’ home web page and clicked on their menu only to find that there was absolutely nothing there at all!  This is classic ‘Cave of Wealth and Death’ stuff.  A gaping hole where information should be.  So on top of this, one of the jet-setters demanding pay outs is the former head of Home Depot. He nearly bankrupted that organization and had to be given a golden parachute to go elsewhere.  

 

So he bailed out over Detroit.  Where he now operates in the name of the biggest hell hounds on earth. Here are several classic Cerebus cartoons I drew in the past:

Money Matters: Vultures Feed Off Of Bull Market Carcass

Money Matters: Cerberus Plots To Eliminate Health Care

Money Matters: Cerberus and Japan Conspire To Fatally Weaken The Yen

EZ READING MONEY MATTERS: Funny Money: Fed Throws Treasuries To Hell Hounds

The nature of US corporate entities going to us for help is messed up by the fact that these organizations are increasingly run by and for foreign powers or offshore accounts that are set up to evade both taxes and regulation.  So this kind of complicates rescue operations when US infrastructure is in danger. 

 

Letting the US auto workers go off the cliff may be satisfying for anti-unionists and Americans who are angry about poor service or other issues.  But it will fatally wound the US itself.  So what is Congress going to do?

 

Nationalize our auto industry, of course.  Only this won’t happen due to the US clinging to a bizarre mix of anti-socialism for workers and total socialism for hell hounds and finance gnomes.  And this is very simple: the gnomes own Congress.  The hell hounds hang out in the halls of Congress.  Congress, itself, is the main problem here.  It is now hopelessly corrupt.

Dana Milbank – Flying From Detroit on Corporate Jets, Auto Executives Ask Washington for Handouts – washingtonpost.com

There are 24 daily nonstop flights from Detroit to the Washington area. Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelliprobably 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?”

It was a display of stone-cold tone-deafness by the automaker chiefs. In their telling, they have no responsibility for the auto industry’s current mess. Threatening the nation with economic Armageddon if they are not given government aid, they spent much of the session declaring what a fine job they’ve been doing in Detroit.

 

The Congress critters happily played this little theatrical game with the gang that funds their own fleet of private jets.  Everyone knew that the stupefied American public would eat this up.  So the actual owners and users of private jets sat silent and let the ‘reformers’ hammer the rich executives.  But I have a long and deep memory and lots of old cartoons.  So let’s go back slightly in time to nearly two years ago:

 

February 10, 2007:  Money Matters: Daily Kos Wants Democrats To Live Like Billionaires

America is going bankrupt. The GOP spent us into a very deep chasm. The Democrats were supposed to fix this but they won’t, either. The Pelosi plane flap shows the depths of the debt depravity in Congress in full bloom.

This was posted at Daily Kos by the Pied Piper, Kos himself:

And if you want to know why the “Pelosi wants a luxury plane” fake scandal is total bullshit, read here.

This is a fraction of the huge story by Media Matters, trying desperately to excuse Speaker Pelosi’s bizarre request.

But neither Costello nor Blitzer provided independent evidence of Pelosi’s request. By contrast, several other media reports on the controversy have stated that there is no evidence Pelosi ever asked for a specific plane and noted that her staff has explicitly denied she ever made such a request. Indeed, Pelosi herself has repeatedly explained she merely wants an aircraft that can travel nonstop to California.

The CNN report repeated the ongoing GOP allegations that Pelosi requested access to “not only a military plane that could fly coast to coast without refueling, but one of the most luxurious planes in the Air Force’s fleet — the C-40 — which boasts a private bed, an entertainment center, and a crew of 16.” (Costello appears to have been referring to the C-32, a military version of the Boeing 757, which Republicans have specifically claimed Pelosi requested. According to the Air Force, the C-32 usually requires a crew of 16, while the C-40 usually requires 10 crew members.)

This story makes me want to tear my hair out. I happen to remember all the way back to President Carter’s days. He made a big show of flying not only commercial planes but carrying his own luggage. This was after we supposedly recoiled from the Nixon Imperial Presidency!

 

HAHAHA.  There it is, in a nutshell: even the pathetic people being conned by Kos are not upset about private jets.  Not even when they are being funded by us, the taxpayers, directly!  So where is all this outrage coming from, anyway?  The truth is, Congress wants to fly private jets and rule from above and the rich want them to do this, too.  Birds of a feather fly private jets together.

 

And they fly to Bilderberger meetings.  They fly to foreign nations to solicit funds, make deals and betray the US public.  They fly to OPEC nations to beg for money and offer up our own youth and our own tax dollar-funded loans to fight on behalf of everyone but the US people.  We are mercenaries led by a bunch of criminals who think nothing of using the entire US government and financial systems to feather their own nests and to leech off of us.  

 

BOTH PARTIES ARE DOING THIS.  The exceptions are on the far right wing, the Ron Paul part, of the GOP and the far left wing, Kucinich part of Congress.  Honesty, at least, is found in the extremes.  But the ‘middle’ is mush.

 

I still remember when Jimmy Carter ran for President.  He didn’t use a single private jet to move about the place.  He actually carried his own luggage.  He still does this.

 

Here to There: Jimmy Carter Aloft: The New Yorker

Unlike Bill Clinton, a serial moocher of private jets, Jimmy Carter flies commercial. He shambles through airports, towing a wheelie bag. He and his retinue of Secret Service men bypass security, board the plane before the other passengers, and procure the first few rows. Prior to departure, he takes a window seat, in order to insulate himself from his fellow-travellers as they step onto the plane and glance at him with tight smiles that seem to indicate pride not only in their sudden proximity to an ex-President but also in their ability to refrain from making a fuss. Then, after the plane’s door has shut, he stands up and walks aft, shaking hands, posing for pictures, learning all the children’s names. “It saves me a lot of headaches,” he explained last week. “It saves me from having them come up to see me during the flight.” (It’s hard, but fun, to imagine Keith Richards doing this.) Carter returns to his row and takes an aisle seat—“Rosalynn likes the window”—and the plane leaves the gate.

 

This was the last of the ‘old fashioned’ Presidents like Eisenhower who lived normal lives in normal houses doing normal things.  Not living in palaces, flying private jets and mooching with the international very rich.

 

California GOP Files FEC Complaint Over Obama Visit to Grandmother | The Trail | washingtonpost.com

“Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama’s personal use,” the release stated. “Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother. This was the right thing for any grandson to do — at his own expense — but it was not travel that his campaign may fund.”

 

This last election saw the top two contenders flying merrily about in private jets.  Back in 2000, the very wealthy McCain made a sport of appearing populist by driving about in his ‘Straight Talk’ bus.  This time around, he and Palin flew about in private jets.  Call these, the ‘Crooked Talk’ jets.  The true populists in this goofy election really did go around, using public transport.  Both were hated by their own parties who prayed that no one would vote for them.

 

I don’t blame Obama for wanting to fly his private jet to see his dying grandmother who he obviously loves very much.  But the fact remains, this has corrupted the election process still further.  We now have jumped over another hurdle.  And this has no end.  All Presidents want to collect money while mooching about the entire planet on private jets.

 

Many Dealings of Bill Clinton Under Review – NYTimes.com

Mr. Clinton delivered those remarks at an international economic symposium in Kuwait City sponsored by the National Bank of Kuwait, which said the former president would “share with a select audience his perspective on the issues likely to shape the future prospects of the region.”

It is precisely that kind of paid speech, which Mr. Clinton delivered 54 times last year for a total of $10.1 million in fees, that has complicated the vetting process that Mrs. Clinton is undergoing by the Obama transition team. “Whatever happens or doesn’t happen is between Obama and her,” Mr. Clinton said.

That may be, but Mr. Clinton’s postpresidential life as a globe-trotting philanthropist, business consultant and speech-giver poses the highest hurdle for Mrs. Clinton to overcome if President-elect Barack Obama chooses to nominate her as secretary of state, according to aides of the Clintons and Mr. Obama….

Associates of the Clintons said that Mr. Clinton was likely to have to make significant concessions and that he was inclined to do so. Among other things, they said, he would probably have to agree not to take money for speeches from foreign businesses that have a stake in the actions of the American government. Another obvious issue, Democratic lawyers said, would be whether Mr. Clinton’s foundation should accept money from foreign governments, businesses or individuals for the foundation’s philanthropic activities and if it should disclose those donors publicly….

Since the former president established the William J. Clinton Foundation in 1998, it has raised more than $500 million, a sum that allowed him to build his steel-and-glass presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and create the Clinton Global Initiative, which has done good deeds all over the world, including working to eradicate AIDS in Africa. Much of that money has been raised from foreign sources.

 

Poor Joe the Bummer Plumber wants to imitate Clinton.  He wants to be famous, run a charity and fly in private jets around the country and the world, lecturing us all on economic matters.  A total  mooch.  And no mooch is more trailer-trash moochy than the Big Dog, hangdog Clinton.  He will happily wag his tail for anyone.  He loves tail [couldn't resist this].

 

This all began with Ronnie Reagan: going overseas to get bribes directly from foreign powers and foreign rivals and even potential dire enemies.  Selling the Presidency to the highest bidders who are not us voters.  I was totally outraged when Reagan went to Japan in 1989. 

 

May 10, 1989: Japan Bids Welcome (in 7 Figures) to Reagan – New York Times

Upset about recent strains in relations with the United States, Japan is making lavish plans to welcome former President Ronald Reagan to Tokyo later this year for 10 days of speeches, ceremonies and visits with business and political leaders.

Upset about recent strains in relations with the United States, Japan is making lavish plans to welcome former President Ronald Reagan to Tokyo later this year for 10 days of speeches, ceremonies and visits with business and political leaders.

But plans for Mr. Reagan’s visit have also been clouded by the turbulent and uncertain Japanese political situation here and by reports that a bidding war had erupted over the right to serve as the former President’s official sponsor. One person involved in the arrangements said the bidding had broken into the millions of dollars.

The size of the final bid was unclear, as was the size of Mr. Reagan’s final negotiated fee. But Charles Z. Wick, former director of the United States Information Agency and a longtime Reagan associate, said Mr. Reagan would receive ”an attractive honorarium.” He declined to give details. Mr. Wick has served as Mr. Reagan’s emissary in arranging for the visit, which is to begin around Oct. 19.

 

 

The bribe the Japanese negotiated was $2.5 million for one speech.  The speech, of course, was a cover for the handover of the loot.  As usual, the Japanese wanted to pay the least amount and haggled bitterly over the terms of this betrayal of the US public.  They then decided to corrupt Bush Sr. earlier on rather than wait until he was out of office.   At this time, the Chinese were just ecstatic about this bribery.  

 

For I predicted Reagan would collect a huge fee from the Japanese back in 1985.  I told the Chinese to watch for this news and like a clock, it happened nearly instantly upon Reagan retiring.  This was noticed by everyone seeking power over Presidents.  They all exploited this most artfully which is why that desperado former President, Clinton, is so wildly popular overseas. 

 

Reagan dared only one bribery speech.  Now, all our former rulers and their staff go about the planet, happily collecting huge fees.  THIS IS WHY ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS END UP MAKING THINGS WORSE FOR US AT HOME!  This is not accidental.  This is deliberate.  We are seeing crummy negotiations led by a bunch of ‘free trade’ free booters working on behalf of all our rivals!  They are NOT negotiating on behalf of Americans.  Not even slightly.

 

Japan Bids Welcome (in 7 Figures) to Reagan – New York Times

A person involved in the negotiations said Mr. Wick had been concerned that the bidding over the sponsorship of the visit might implicate Mr. Reagan in Japan’s spreading influence-peddling scandal, which led Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to announce his resignation last month.

The scandal has involved illicit payments to Japanese politicians by major Japanese business corporations, and Mr. Wick was said to have been worried that Mr. Reagan could be seen as tainted if he accepted money indiscriminately from Japanese businesses.

Also involved in the scandal allegations has been former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who had earlier been expected to play a major role in the visit. An aide to Mr. Nakasone said this week that because the former Prime Minister is enmeshed in scandal allegations, it was unclear how much Mr. Nakasone would be able to see Mr. Reagan.

 

Back in 1989, I demanded Congress haul Reagan before them and put him under oath and begin proceedings leading to arresting him for treason.  ’But he is POPULAR!’ they told me.  And he was popular because our media was not out hounding him over this.  I was happy the NYT ran an article about all this.  But there was no media feeding frenzy.

 

This was also due to Congress, seeing vast acres of loot opening before them, wanted him to get away with this obvious and open treason.  They licked their chops and went to dinner.  And the trade condition of the US began to deteriorate even faster.  As time has passed, with everyone conspiring to tap into foreign bribes, it is worsening rapidly to the point, the US is now going bankrupt, we are about to lose control of our last major industries and foreign powers dictate our foreign affairs and order our military around so they work for aliens and not to protect the US itself.

 

On our dime, of course.  So all the downside burdens fall on us.  While they get richer and richer.  Congress is filthy rich.  Anyone walking into the White House ends up filthy rich afterwards.  Look at Clinton: nearly bankrupt due to the Monica mess.  Worth over $100 million less than 8 years later.

 

China Digital Times » Chinese Automakers May Buy GM and Chrysler?

With the U.S. auto industry in the midst of a crisis, Chinese media reports are saying that Chinese companies may buy up two giants, Chrysler and GM.

And China is buying up everything in sight. Even as their own economy flounders. This is because they have money and they have money because they have a TRADE SURPLUS. And the US better figure out why we have no trade surplus. This is of highest importance. We can’t let this continue any longer.

We must remove from office, anyone using a private jet, for starters. That will tag most of the most corrupt members. This includes multimillionaires like McCain as well. We are run by the rich and the rich are running us into the ground. Their allegiance is to foreign powers, not the US Constitution and the American People.

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