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US Auto Executives Fly To DC Asking for Taxpayer Money in Private Jets and None Offers to Work for Significantly Less than their 15 or 21 Million Dollar Salaries, Much Less Fly First-Class (why not Business Class?) on a Commericial Airline

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"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?"

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