Thursday, December 04, 2008

Trained Monkeys

A few weeks ago, when the Big 3 automaker CEOs went to Washington to beg at the cannibal pot, they flew into town on their private jets.  This, of course, raised the hackles of the professional jobholders, who have to fly commercial jets to get anywhere, unless, of course, the professional jobholder is professional enough to stack a claim to a government jet from time to time due to their alleged professionalness.

The Big 3 automaker CEOs were thoroughly chastised by the professional jobholders for having the cheek to come a begging at the cannibal pot in their private jets, and were sent away empty handed.

But, all is not lost for the Big 3 automaker CEOs, as they are readily trainable, as good monkeys are wont to be, as is evidenced by the following.

The head of the nation’s largest automaker took perhaps the most important car ride of his life Wednesday, traveling 500 miles, mostly over highway through four states, to Washington, D.C., where he will ask Congress for a second time to save his slumping company.

Two weeks ago Rick Wagoner flew to Washington on a corporate jet. This time the chief executive of General Motors Corp. made the trip in one of his company’s black hybrid Chevrolet Malibus, driving part of the way. He periodically made calls on his cell phone while in the passenger seat and wore sunglasses to protect from the glare of a sunny day…

All three CEOs made the trip to Washington in high-mileage hybrid vehicles—the types of cars critics say the Detroit Three should have been making more of instead of becoming enamored of higher-profit, less fuel-efficient vehicles like SUVs and Hummers.

I say let all three of the Big 3 automakers fall flat on their monkey grinning collective dumb faces, and as for the professional jobholders brandishing the whips and hoops for the monkeys to jump through, they should all be flogged and made to run cross country begging for their very lives.

Not just another car ride for GM CEO Wagoner

Posted by John Venlet on 12/04 at 06:35 AM
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