Switched the tube over to the convention while the S.O. was indisposed.
And who should be speaking at the Republican convention-the gathering of those folks who are in touch with “real America”?
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who-in the course of a a 6 year tenure as CEO, ran HP’s stock price down by over 50% and who laid off 18,000 HP workers during post-merger restructuring. She is the woman who deliberately defended the outsourcing of jobs overseas to foreign workers. Instead of transferring Americans like me overseas with lucrative Expat packages 🙂 ( Yes,you read that right-I know what I want……..).
Along the way she made very little friends and a lot of enemies, so much so that upon hearing the news of her firing, HP shares jumped:
“The stock is up a bit on the fact that nobody liked Carly’s leadership all that much,” said Robert Cihra, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners. “The Street had lost all faith in her and the market’s hope is that anyone will be better.”
But not to worry-when she got laid off she walked away with 21 million dollars. Not a bad haul.
Just a typical Republican working woman………………………………….
AND BEFORE ANYONE THINKS I’VE GONE OFF THE DEEP END:
My real point here is not about Fiornia’s wealth-its about sticking up for fairness and a fair free market-not just a free market. How many yachts are enough Gordon? People who think the market is the solution to all of our problems should visit Hong Kong.
Compare her speech to Huckabee’s-at least he has the decency to be humble and appreciative of the gifts he has been given. Then again-religious differences aside-I’ve always liked Huckabee. Don’t ask me why because I can’t defend it-but I do.