Touted as John McCain’s economic brain and recently appointed as the RNC Victory Chair, it is worth looking back at Carly Fiorina’s history in business for a clue to the type of policy McCain would undertake in the unfortunate event he is elected president.
In this case, let’s take a peep at one year during Fiorina’s time at CEO of HP (before she was effectively fired by the board for poor performance):
The top layoff leader in terms of layoff numbers is Carly S. Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard. She fired 25,700 workers in 2001, and saw her pay jump 231 percent, from $1.2 million in 2001 to $4.1 million in 2002.
In effect, for each of the people Carly Fiorina fired, she got a bump in salary of $112.84.
The woman they’re now calling John McCain’s economic brain values the job of an American worker as $112.84 she can shove in her pocket as she drives home in her luxury car to her gilded palace. Nice.
Related
“Carly will now disappear”
McCain’s “Economic Brain” Carly Fiorina Violated US Trade Boycott With Iran
RNC Victory Chair Carly Fiorina’s Tenure Of Failure At HP
> she can shove in her pocket as she drives home
You think she drives herself?
I’m a Silicon Valley techie type. Before Fiorina, I thought HP was one of the greatest companies on Earth. Find an engineer or scientist of a certain age (born between about 1940 and 1960) and mention the HP-35 calculator. You’ll get a smile, or a rueful grin and “I wish I could have afforded one.” After Fiorina, HP was just another stupid East-coast-style computer company in the Unisys mode.
I knew that anything that involved Compaq would end in tears.