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  • toasty
    Sir Toastiness
    • Jun 2004
    • 6585
    #1

    Obama v Bush

    Well, here's an example of something that has actually played out differently under Obama than it would have under Bush. You know that $50M private jet that Citigroup was going to buy, the same Citigroup whom we just gave $45B in bailout funds? Yeah, Obama didn't take kindly to that and actually did something about it. The long and short of it is that Citigroup ain't getting its plane.

    The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France...

    ABC News has learned that Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company's new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to "fix it."
    High-Flying Citigroup Grounds Plans for $50M Jet
    http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=6740011&page=1
    Citigroup reverses itself and decides to not take delivery of a new $50 billion corporate jet from France.
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    • Steve Graham
      DJ Jelly
      • Jun 2004
      • 12887
      #2
      Re: Obama v Bush

      lol @ "fix it"

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        • toasty
          Sir Toastiness
          • Jun 2004
          • 6585
          #3
          Re: Obama v Bush

          Originally posted by Steve Graham
          lol @ "fix it"

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            • Miroslav
              WHOA I can change this!1!
              • Apr 2006
              • 4122
              #4
              Re: Obama v Bush

              good...that is only to Obama's credit. Those fools who manage Citigroup should all be fired.
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                • floridaorange
                  I'm merely a humble butler
                  • Dec 2005
                  • 29115
                  #5
                  Re: Obama v Bush

                  good work obama!

                  It was fun while it lasted...

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                    • Cj Tari
                      MCast Resident DJ
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 557
                      #6
                      Re: Obama v Bush

                      i was driving a while ago and i stumbled upon Rush Limbaugh on the radio, and they were complaining about this plane issue and about that dude with the million dollar office and bathroom, saying that were becoming a socialist country since now you cant even build a bathroom or buy a plane without government telling you what to do.

                      man, rush is running out of topics to bitch about.
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                        • etincelles
                          Addiction started
                          • Jun 2005
                          • 336
                          #7
                          Re: Obama v Bush

                          ....
                          Last edited by etincelles; March 24, 2010, 05:54:23 PM.

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                            • etincelles
                              Addiction started
                              • Jun 2005
                              • 336
                              #8
                              Re: Obama v Bush

                              ....
                              Last edited by etincelles; March 24, 2010, 05:54:08 PM.

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                                • superdave
                                  Platinum Poster
                                  • Jun 2004
                                  • 1366
                                  #9
                                  Re: Obama v Bush

                                  Good for Obama. Bush would ask to ride in the new plane and compare it to Air Force One.
                                  Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake - Napoleon Bonaparte

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                                    • Miroslav
                                      WHOA I can change this!1!
                                      • Apr 2006
                                      • 4122
                                      #10
                                      Re: Obama v Bush

                                      I don't care if these guys wasted their money in the past and hurt their shareholders; their shareholders and board of directors should then fire them and replace them with managers who will improve their equity value.

                                      What I do care about are two things:
                                      (1) a company allowed to become so huge that it is "too big to fail" and requires the public to bail it out when it gets stuck. "Too big to fail" should be "too big to exist".

                                      And (2) managers who waste money hand over fist AFTER they get a massive public bailout. Once you got my money, it's not your company anymore as far as I'm concerned. The way it should have worked is: you screw up and require the taxpayers to save you from your own incompetence, your ass is on the street and we get significant short-term control over your company.

                                      I've said it before, I'll say it again...equity stakes and mandated top-level corporate layoffs should have been part of the package for these bailouts. Then at very least wouldn't have these idiots who take our money and turn around and buy corporate jets with it.
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                                        • |Thrax|
                                          Platinum Poster
                                          • Mar 2007
                                          • 1744
                                          #11
                                          Re: Obama v Bush

                                          miro: true
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                                            • MJDub
                                              Are you Kidding me??
                                              • Jun 2004
                                              • 2765
                                              #12
                                              Re: Obama v Bush

                                              Originally posted by Cj Tari
                                              i was driving a while ago and i stumbled upon Rush Limbaugh on the radio, and they were complaining about this plane issue and about that dude with the million dollar office and bathroom, saying that were becoming a socialist country since now you cant even build a bathroom or buy a plane without government telling you what to do.

                                              man, rush is running out of topics to bitch about.
                                              Rush needs to pull a Heath Ledger and take a deadly mix of his prescription meds already.


                                              btw, stuff like this coming from Obama is why I've been supporting him since I first heard him speak in 2004. You rock, Barack!
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                                                • Steve Graham
                                                  DJ Jelly
                                                  • Jun 2004
                                                  • 12887
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: Obama v Bush

                                                  Originally posted by MJDub
                                                  Rush needs to pull a Heath Ledger and take a deadly mix of his prescription meds already.


                                                  btw, stuff like this coming from Obama is why I've been supporting him since I first heard him speak in 2004. You rock, Barack!
                                                  I'm all for freedom of speech, but this asshole takes it to a whole new level of shite spewed from someones mouth when give a platform, lol

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                                                    • dig72
                                                      Gold Gabber
                                                      • Nov 2004
                                                      • 882
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: Obama v Bush

                                                      Originally posted by Miroslav
                                                      I don't care if these guys wasted their money in the past and hurt their shareholders; their shareholders and board of directors should then fire them and replace them with managers who will improve their equity value.

                                                      What I do care about are two things:
                                                      (1) a company allowed to become so huge that it is "too big to fail" and requires the public to bail it out when it gets stuck. "Too big to fail" should be "too big to exist".

                                                      And (2) managers who waste money hand over fist AFTER they get a massive public bailout. Once you got my money, it's not your company anymore as far as I'm concerned. The way it should have worked is: you screw up and require the taxpayers to save you from your own incompetence, your ass is on the street and we get significant short-term control over your company.

                                                      I've said it before, I'll say it again...equity stakes and mandated top-level corporate layoffs should have been part of the package for these bailouts. Then at very least wouldn't have these idiots who take our money and turn around and buy corporate jets with it.

                                                      Well said.
                                                      “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
                                                      ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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                                                        • thesightless
                                                          Someone will marry me. Hell Yeah!
                                                          • Jun 2004
                                                          • 13567
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: Obama v Bush

                                                          why the fuck is the citibank 400 million dollar deal with the mets for the naming rights to thier stadium still up???

                                                          wonder where thier donations went during election time.
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