Free cars and free gas for employees! YAY!!!

Boy, that sounds great. Too bad those lucky employees are the white collar workers at that shining star of American corporate culture, General Motors. Need I remind you that this is the same GM who is rapidly burning through $13 billion of your tax dollars?

Whoa, hey now. Put that pitchfork of populist anger away! You see, it only cost $12 million to run the program last year. That's chump change! I think the CEO blew that much to rent a private jet to Washington to get harrangued at that Congressional hearing.

Oh, wait a sec ... didn't that draw enough negative press to force GM to sell it's corporate planes? So, clearly, the PR people have NOT learned their lesson.

[Hahaha, I just read the article further, and the NPR reporter also compared it to the corporate-plane fiasco. Except not dripping with sarcasm. Great minds think alike!]

Anyhow, if you can contain your rage, read more here.

[Source: NPR via, of all things, FARK]