GM Tries Hiding Plane

The big three auto makers received scathing publicity when they used private jets to travel to Washington, D.C. so they could ask Congress for a public bailout of their companies, driven to the brink of fiscal death by inept management.

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.

To keep such wasteful and arrogant activity from hitting the public spotlight happening again, General Motors for one decided to ... block the public's ability to track a plane it uses. Good lord, these people really will never learn, will they? Any bets on what they would do with bailout money? Do I hear waste it?