$201,047.42 for hotel rooms and $147,301.71 for catered banquets

[Rosa Luxemburg]

forgive me if this has been posted before but this makes me mad how these millionaires are squandering our money....I WOULD LIKE A REFUND!


Two weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Paulson bailed out American Insurance Group (AIG) with $85 billion dollars in taxpayer money - and now they are back for more. He said they needed it to stay afloat. Now, we know what they did with our money.
AIG executives headed out on a taxpayer funded junket to the St. Regis resort in California. While there, they had a blast at our expense. They helped themselves to:1
• $201,047.42 for hotel rooms and $147,301.71 for catered banquets
• $23,380 for the hotel spa and another $1,488 for the salon.
• Golf for $6,939.09 and $5,016.32 spent at the Tavern.
Now they are back at the trough. This is outrageous. Tell Treasury Secretary Paulson: The Director who authorized this junket should be fired and every penny spent on this lavish retreat must be returned to the Treasury.


http://www.truemajority.org

[BrklynLiberal]

1. AIG is a pig.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. At the trough!

[napi21]

3. How many people were on this excursion? I've heard the #'s but nobody

mentions how many people were involved. Of course it's nuts for them to go at all! It's not their dime anymore! But ignoring that, I want to know how much it was per person?

I got a bad feeling that it's a fairly small number of people when someone mentioned that they also offered rooms for your dog beginning at $450 per night.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. ordinary people can't pay their health bills, mortgages, food!

$450 to me is a lot of money.

[napi21]

5. ;o) Hell I'd never pay (or could afford to) what they charge for a dog!

There's actually a "Resort/Spa" for dogs & cats like that here in Atlanta! Business is booming too from what I hear!

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Did that include the guys guarding the entrance to the rooms on horseback

wearing the conquistador costumes?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. I guess they will need guards now!