With a friend like Obama in the White House, who needs enemy? That's what lots of hotel employees in Las Vegas must be asking these days according to Loews Corp CEO Jim Tisch. He didn't mince words with Bloomberg, calling Obama's outbursts against travel and lodging the "death knell" for the industry. It's easy for the politician to get the sound bite. What they are doing with those sound bites is putting maids and bellmen out of work." Bloomberg goes on to report that in a bizarre twist Obama's bank bashing has also sent key employee's fleeing AIG to Loews. President Barack Obama last year said companies receiving aid should curtail travel and pay. "You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you've paid taxpayers back," Obama said at a town hall meeting in February 2009. "You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime."Tisch explained...(Read Full Post)