Read this editorial from Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller fame.  90% of the time, this man is an insufferable ass, but he hits a homer in this piece.

It’s asinine to attack any convention, meeting, or group event for going to Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is a convention city…where you can get hotel rooms DIRT CHEAP…where the hotels can offer convention packages far superior to anything you could get in other cities.  Food is cheap in Vegas.  The unions there are not as strong as in places like Chicago, so your setup and tear-down fees are much, much cheaper than they are in the Midwest or Rust Belt. And, since the days of Elvis, there are plenty of go-go boys in Vegas too, now, so it’s not just the ostrich-feathered showgirls, folks.  That’s reason enough to go right there, that sure is.

Because of the affordability of everything, and the fun options available during down-time, more people are willing to shell out their own personal bucks on a trip to Vegas than they would coming to Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, or Detroit in the dead of winter, so conventions in Vegas are much more productive than they would be elsewhere. If more people come to the convention, there’s a better chance the convention will turn a profit, and the people paying to set up booths at the convention will find the whole thing worthwhile since they will meet lots of new clients…which is the point of having the convention someplace desirable that people want to go to.

TRUST US:  we’ve worked special events for over a decade.  Some of us have worked in hotels.  All of us have worked projects where we needed people from across the country to come together for something.

Las Vegas is a city that depends on tourist and convention dollars.  So, not only does it make no sense to attack Vegas from the conventioneers’ point of view, but it’s dealing an unneeded blow to the Vegas economy when that’s the last thing it needs right now.

Attacking Las Vegas does NOT mean conventions will suddenly go to Cleveland or Pittsburgh instead.

Perhaps the convention just won’t happen.

That means a great many business deals that would have been formed at that convention just won’t happen.

Local economies, jobs, future enterprises, and a host of other important things are directly impacted by the thoughtless, reckless, and irresponsible nonsense spouted by our current president.

And if a Leftist like Penne Jillette, of all people, is calling Dr. Utopia out on this, you know it must be really bad.