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To: Road Walker who wrote (437192)	11/29/2008 8:29:46 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574096

G.M. Seeks to Keep the Public From Tracking Its Plane By BLOOMBERG NEWS nytimes.com ( Don't want the rubes (or the wives!) to know about flying down to Rio with a planeload of hookers and blow!) General Motors, criticized by lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, has asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses. “We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a G.M. spokesman, Greg Martin, said in an interview. Flight data shows that the leased Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV jet flew on Nov. 18 from Detroit to Washington, where Rick Wagoner, the chief executive, spoke to a Senate committee that day and a House panel the next day to appeal for a $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry. Representatives at the Nov. 19 House hearing, including Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York, faulted Mr. Wagoner; Alan R. Mulally, the Ford Motor chief; and Robert L. Nardelli, the chief of Chrysler, for taking private jets to Washington to plead their case. “Couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class?” Mr. Ackerman asked. Critics of a federal aid package for G.M., Ford and Chrysler spotlighted the private jets as an example of why the companies did not deserve a bailout. The Gulfstream jet was leased from GE Capital Solutions in Danbury, Conn., a unit of General Electric. The last tracked flights of the plane were a flight to Washington on Tuesday, and a flight to Dallas afterward. Its movements could no longer be tracked after that. An F.A.A. spokeswoman, Laura Brown, said she could not immediately determine whether her agency had granted G.M.’s request. “We do this routinely” for aircraft owners, she said on Wednesday. “They don’t have to have a reason” for requesting the block, she said. The F.A.A. tracking data do not identify who is aboard the flights. G.M. also has seven planes in its own fleet. All were grounded Wednesday, said a spokesman, Tom Wilkinson. Two are for sale and two are in the process of being listed for sale. G.M. plans to keep three, he said. The leased Gulfstream has made 10 trips to Washington this year, including three since October, according to data compiled by FlightAware.com, a flight-tracking service based in Houston. G.M. said it often subleased the airplane to other users. G.M. officials said company employees were not aboard the jet on the flights Tuesday, before its movements ceased being tracked. Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

To: Road Walker who wrote (437192)	11/29/2008 12:51:40 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574096

Rachel Maddow goes through the list of GW Bush people who had to resign or were indicted for bad doings.......the list is so long its astounding: Message 25214592

To: Road Walker who wrote (437192)	11/30/2008 11:23:50 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

RW, > So yes there is always an economic cycle, but I think the severity of this down cycle has probably been 'manufactured'. There's always a "manufactured" component to every economic cycle. Speculators and regulators alike have a hand in skewing economic fundamentals. Confidence can best be restored once we compete more effectively in the global marketplace. Of course, I don't see either management nor labor vowing to do just that. Instead, they resort to fearmongering to protect the status quo. Tenchusatsu