We don't need Meetings

Kerry and Obama wants to criminalize meetings?! Well, not quite. They are coming down hard on the meetings of companies that have received government assistance and sent a very chilling message to the rest of corporate and organizational America.

Do you have any idea how much it costs tax payers for the President of the United States to visit a foreign country? Now multiply that by 10 to visit a country with fighting in the streets. Just to run Airforce One is about $75,000 / hour (annual budget of Air Force One Air Wing is classified). Add in the transportation of his limo, the press, the Secret Service advance teams, security, etc, and his stop over in Iraq was conservatively $15 million.

$15 Million for two people to meet for a couple of hours, and they are on AIG's case for a sales reward for people that did a good job at what they were hired to do.

Why didn't he just pick up the phone and call?

Because it's not the same, and if the President of the United States feels it is a good thing to have a meeting, then by all means have it! Just get off the backs of the rest of the industry for making similar decisions for their organizations.