[KarlInOhio]

I hate to defend the government, but $700 each for a closeout meeting after a major project isn't all that much. Now whether it could have been held somewhere less "distracting" than Las Vegas, by video conference or with fewer people (everyone in Colorado meet and then a couple of Colorado representatives go to the national meeting) is open to question.

[jospehm20]

The point to me is that Barky said businesses had better not be going on junkets to Vegas, but apparently gubmint O-holes can.

[lone star annie]

No way should any government employee have a party on the tax payer dime. If you want to do that work for the private sector that supports everything, and then earn your party.

[agere_contra]

Interesting!

Here in the UK the average cost of a closeout meeting is I guess about 200 GBP (=300 dollars) per person. That’s travel, location hire and a hotel room for a night in some non-glitzy locale like Norwich.

If we hired strippers and went to a Vegas Cabaret then I guess it would get more expensive :0)