The G8 Summit is once again bringing together the world's leaders as they jet off from their homelands to a vacation destination - this time Camp David in Maryland - leaving their posts and spending millions of dollars that their countries can ill-afford to shell out for travel, staffing, and security. All for meetings which don't need to occur.
This is not the 1940s or 50s when people needed to travel to one location to meet face-to-face. It's not even the 1990s or early 2000s when economies were much more robust and travel and entertainment were more acceptable expenditures.
This is now, and such extravagance needs to stop.
With technology being what it is, secure videoconferencing can put all 8 leaders in the same room virtually at the same time to see each other and talk. They can do this from the comfort of their normal office, and no one needs to be inconvenienced by the travel and disruption.
This will eliminate protesters, security concerns at the venue as well as lodging sites, disruption of traffic at the host location, and the need for formal meals.
Time to deep 6 or 86 the G8 in its present form. This is not a perk that taxpayers want to provide.
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