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That's probably it actually, and it makes no sense even if the company isn't taking government money.  I've never understood how buying a jet on the company dime could be anything other than defrauding shareholders, to say nothing of the obvious moral consideration of not wasting money on unnecessary bullshit that means fewer jobs at the company, which punishes both workers and shareholders.

We desperately need to reform corporate organization and executive comp.  Cap salaries at fifty grand, and if the CEO's really good, give him some stock in the company (and make him hold it so that he has skin in the game).

It's completely insane.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Jan 26th, 2009 at 06:11:49 PM EST
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There can be a decent business case for business jets, as they can be a lot cheaper than buying a lot of commercial flights for senior people that travel a lot, in large enough numbers.

This jet thing is the kind of silly distractions from real problems we're offered by the media; it's cheap populism but it does nothing to solve issues about labor rights or wages that would be a lot more important.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 27th, 2009 at 05:37:14 AM EST
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