New found prudishness among the bailout benefactors
Have Las Vegas’ wink-and-a-nod marketing chickens fled the roost?
When Goldman Sachs shifted a company meeting from Las Vegas to San Francisco, people began to read between the lines. It was not a cost-saving move because San Fran is arguably more expensive than even the new high-end Strip rooms and amenities. It was image.
When you are spending middle America’s money, they don’t want you carousing in a place that brags about what happens here stays here.
Party hearty on your dime, but you’d best be prim and proper on mine.
In fact, that is precisely what President Barack Obama said in Elkhart , Ind., on Monday, "You can't take a trip to Las Vegas or down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime."
