Talk About Detached From Reality

You have bankrupted your business, the Federal government has to bail you out to the tune of $85,000,000,000.00 so what do you do?

Send your top executives to an exclusive spa for an all expenses paid vacation.

Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday.

The tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees at the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy.

Granted, it was arranged prior to the bailout, and in the big scheme of things it is not a huge cost, but you would think that all the bright minds at this firm might see how this trip might make the firm look a little less than responsible.



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AIG, Corruption, Economics