A Global Company

AIG is truly a global company. A week and a half ago I wrote about the U.S. branch of the company spending excessively at a resort. This past week a similar thing happened in England. Eight people - four AIG executives and four guests - spent about $100,000 of our money in four days. Here, according to News of the World, is what was spent on the shooting party at a posh country manor house:

• FOUR aristocratic-style shooting parties costing a whopping £25,000 in total.
• A PRIVATE JET for two of them from Germany costing £10,000.
• FLIGHTS to and from Madrid and a fleet of CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN cars at £5,000.
• SUMPTUOUSfeasts washed down with bottles of fine wines and liqueurs costing £5,000—plus giant PICNIC HAMPERS to guzzle in between slaughtering birds.
• LUXURY rooms totalling £5,000.

And then one of the guest said “The recession will go on until about 2011—but the shooting was great today and we are all relaxing fine.”