As a spinoff from BlueJessamine OP here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3490731I want to put the spotlight on another from McCain's campaign. Have you seen her recently?:Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina was president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company from 1999 to 2005. She served as chairman of the board from 2000 to 2005.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.htmlFormer Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina
received a welcome package worth nearly $100 million when she joined the company in 1999. When she was fired last year,
she reportedly received $21 million in severance -- despite a tenure that included poor revenues and heavy worker layoffs. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=1025735&page=1 Carly championed firing American employees for cheaper outsourced laborI know that outsourcing is a controversial subject, and every time a person loses a job in this country it's painful. But every time a person in the global economy gets a stake in the global economy; every time a person is enabled, empowered by a new opportunity; every time an individual says I can change my life, I can make a difference, and I can make a difference in other people's lives -
that increases our total security and our total prosperity. So I think there's a lot of upside to the globalization that we need to think about as well.http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/fortunebrainstorm.html When the outsourcing of jobs turned into a national political issue, Fiorina became the poster-girl for an industry campaign aimed at blocking any legislation that would restrict a company's ability to can American employees in favor of workers overseas. She and executives from seven other tech companies issued a report that argued that any such measures would hurt the U.S. economy. The best way to increase American competitiveness, they declared, was to improve schools and, yes, reduce taxes. At a Washington press conference,
Fiorina said, "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs." The remark did not go over well with critics of outsourcing, who have ever since used it as an indicator of corporate insensitivity.http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/06/8687_why_is_carly_fi.html In light of this current economic crisis, we should skewer McCain every time this woman shows her face and speaks to the media.