{"id":9692,"date":"2008-11-20T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T06:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/big_three_ceos_flew_private_jets_to_plead_for_public_funds\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T06:24:53","slug":"big_three_ceos_flew_private_jets_to_plead_for_public_funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9692","title":{"rendered":"Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Wagoner testified, his G4 private jet was parked at Dulles airport. It is just one of a fleet of luxury jets owned by GM that continues to ferry executives around the world despite the company&#8217;s dire financial straits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a slap in the face of taxpayers,&#8221; said Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste. &#8220;To come to Washington on a corporate jet, and asking for a hand out is outrageous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wagoner&#8217;s private jet trip to Washington cost his ailing company an estimated $20,000 roundtrip. In comparison, seats on Northwest Airlines flight 2364 from Detroit to Washington were going online for $288 coach and $837 first class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/WallStreet\/story?id=6285739&#038;page=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Wagoner testified, his G4 private jet was parked at Dulles airport. It is just one of a fleet of luxury jets owned by GM that continues to ferry executives around the world despite the company&#8217;s dire financial straits. &#8220;This<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9692\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}