This is why we are in trouble

Greed.

Yesterday, the CEOs of the big three American automakers came to Washington with their Rolex-adorned hands outstretched, asking for handouts from the taxpayers. Give us money, or our top-heavy corporations are doomed to fail! And it's all the unions' fault! Pay no attention to the fourteen layers of management that have run the business into the ground. We will run leaner, we promise!

One lawmaker asked, by a show of hands, who among the three had flown to DC on a commercial flight. All hands remained down. He then asked who was willing to sell their private jet today, and fly home on a commercial flight. No hands went up.

It appears that even our do-nothing Congress does not have the stomach for this degree of avarice. The showdown vote was cancelled.