Yet it may come as a surprise that at a time of financial crisis and Green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet.
According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in D.C. for the inauguration. The runway at Washington Dulles was closed Saturday to allow as many as 100 small planes to park. And the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said it expected a total of 500 small jets to land from Jan. 16 through Jan 21...
Of course, flying private to a celebration of a populist, pro-environment President is a bit like the Detroit execs jetting to Washington for bailout money. How do you call for social responsibility after touching down in a $40 million, gas-guzzling Gulfstream? (Maybe travelers will buy carbon credits).
But you--you must stop driving your kids to soccer practice and must turn down the heater in winter.
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It's only hypocrisy if all men are created equal.
A Gulfstream may not be quite as good as being a duke but in a society without inherited titles, it'll do.
No surprise there. It's always the little people that must sacrifice. That's the terms they see it. Why else would the idiots vote themselves a raise during an economic meltdown?
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