Seriously, did any congressman ask any of the auto guys this afternoon what their total income was?

[DuaneBidoux]

I mean, they came in private jets. It's like they just don't get it yet. I question whether we should give these particular guys ANY money. For 30 years they haven't been able to make cars American anyone likes.

Anyway, I suddenly got completely curious what these guys (the four, yes including the union guy)had as a total income and in what combination last year.

Hey, I'm ready to seem some Ba**s from our guys now.

[DJ13]

1. At this point what they make is NOT important

Saving the 3 million jobs that depend on our US auto industry is important.

This is not the point in this crisis to launch an "us verses them" attack.

[blondeatlast]

2. Exactly. nt

[DuaneBidoux]

3. I do agree. I'm not saying something shouldn't be done but I am saying that the very act of these

guys flying in on a private jet means they truly still don't get it. That's all I'm saying--this money will not be recovered because the management is the same management.

[navarth]

4. Saving the jobs is paramount, yes. But those salaries need to be part of the conversation.

Eventually.

[amandabeech]

5. I believe that it was Sen. Tester who brought salary up.

GM has given up half plus bonuses.

Ford and Chrysler looked a little flummoxed, but they need the $$$$ desperately for their companies, and I think that they will give up a lot if asked.

Did anybody ask the CEOs to give anything up for that cool $700,000,000,000? NO. And now the auto companies are paying for it.

As to the planes, I doubt if they are for CEO use only, and, frankly, I don't mind them being used when the idea is to take a group and hold a meeting in the air, which I'm sure was done.

I'd want to know more about the use of Ford corporate planes before I insisted that they all be sold or leased out during the loan term. There are suppliers in pretty isolated areas, particularly in the mid-west and mid-atlantic. I can imagine that having a least something on call would make sense for really large, spread out manufacturing operations.

[AZBlue]

6. What they make is not the point - it's what their employees make (or, rather, won't be making).

(Nonetheless, I do strongly support salary caps on these so-called executives)