movingforward
I am having a great difficulty in sussing the real motives for your post re the alleged expenses to which you refer.
Exactly what does;
I hear the A-Team run up $20 - $30k on expenses, not good.
mean.
Are you suggesting they spent it at the casino, or on wine women and song, or was it for legitimate expenses, authorised and incurred in the running of AOPA.
Weasel slurs in the manner of;
It is worthwhile doing your own homework and not listen to the gravy train or gossip trial.
are just that.
I could send you copies of my expense sheets for the last year that would probably pay your mortgage for the next couple of years and get you change and unless you knew the what, when, where and why, you would be forgiven for saying they were outrageous.
If that makes me a profligate and irresponsible spender of my company's money, as you seem to suggest that AOPA directors have been, I would have been fired by my board and shareholders many years ago.
They wish they could replicate me and the other two, I just wish they'd let me stay home for a bit.
It's all context.
And neither you nor I nor anybody is qualified to make any judgements on any matters of expenditure of this kind without actually being part of the decision making process at the time, unless of course, it really was spent at the casino, or on wine, women and song.
I spend far too much of my life, sitting in business class in airline aircraft, travelling to what some would call exotic destinations staying at pubs that get featured on the Lifestyle Channel, just for going to work. Sounds exciting but watching paint dry is heaps more fun.
You might spend time in the nightly traffic jam watching an airliner leaving or arriving, I'm looking out the window of the said airliner at the traffic jam wishing I was in it, on the way to hearth and home.
It's just a matter of perspective.
