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Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet
Ponca City, We love you writes "The NY Times reports that H211 LLC, a company controlled by Google's top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added to its fleet a Dornier Alpha Jet, a light jet attack and advanced trainer aircraft manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France. The 1982 Alpha-Jet seats two and was originally used by European air forces, but is now being sold relatively cheaply to civilians. The jet has landing rights at Moffett Field, the NASA-operated airfield that is a stone's throw from the Google campus. It is not clear who exactly flies the fighter jet, although Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is an avid pilot. If the top Googlers indeed own the fighter jet, they would be following in the footsteps of Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, who has owned several aircraft, including fighter jets."
of how many starving children in Africa they could have fed instead of buying a jet so they can show off.
I was thinking the same thing, as im sure many people are. With the economy in the toilet, the political landscape ablaze, unemployment jumping, terrible gas prices and millions wondering if their 401K plans haven't been an enormous waste of time and money, Larry and Sergey have shown unquestionably that they are utterly out of touch.
I don't mind saying that it's offensive enough to me to pull out of the Google cloud completely. They could be doing incredibly helpful things with their billions, and instead they just buy toys.
You should be ashamed of yourselves, google execs.
"Seriously though, do you think wearing sophisticated clothes is more important than actually knowing something about the real issues? Maybe what's in the package is more important than how shiny the package is?"
Tell that to all the people voting for obama.
I haven't really heard why people are actually voting for him..beyond vague and simplistic ideas such as "change".
It makes me realize just how easy it is for a population to hire somebody like hitler into power. I just hope that when the US goes to complete shit, the people that vote obama into office take the blame.