2016 Republican Presidential Candidates

[Henry Hawk]

And two days before HP fired her, Forbes blasted her for her "failing policies" at HP.

Besides, I say again ... wtf does Most Powerful have to do with anything? As I said before, Kanye West and Kim Jong-un also made that "most powerful" list. Would you vote for them?

Kanye and Kim Jong were not the most powerful businessmen.....THAT is what Forbes and Fortune Mag were promoting.  Now I agree with you on Times....their man of the year crap is for the birds.

You don't have to like her, but she is a very accomplished woman....I think she make some serious miscalculations though.....and as far as I am concerned, I am not interested in her running our country.

[Locutus]

Yeah, Mike Suckabee is more your style. 

[me]

You had to use HP's tech support and I'm the fool?  I built my fucking computer!  LOL!

I was meaning it was a fact because I was using the support back then dumb ass. You did not have the automatic knowledge when you first started using computers to be able to build one I'm sure and I had only been using the computer for the most part and was unfamiliar with a lot of things. I could build one now so stick it smart ass.

[me]

Let's not forget that 30,000 people lost their jobs in the process!

Where did you come up with your figure?

Buying Compaq over the strong objections of some board members. Fiorina is probably best known for leading HP into a very bitter and public board-level fight over the acquisition of Compaq. She wanted to buy the big PC rival and turn HP into the biggest PC maker. A faction of the board, led by Walter Hewlett (son of internally revered company co-founder William Hewlett), opposed the buy and launched a proxy fight.

Fiorina won the proxy fight, and HP bought Compaq for about $19 billion in 2002.

But the integration of Compaq into HP was never smooth. Key Compaq executives reporting to Fiorina left or were ousted. And Fiorina angered many employees with a massive layoff right after the acquisition, cutting 15,000 HP jobs.

That said, the acquisition did turn HP into the largest PC maker, and it's been consistently in the top three (trading places with Dell and Lenovo periodically) ever since.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/carly-fiorina-presidential-ambitions-follow-a-terrible-record-at-hp-2015-3#ixzz3auYZlO9m

http://www.businessinsider.com/carly-fiorina-presidential-ambitions-follow-a-terrible-record-at-hp-2015-3#ixzz3at0ZJQ4k

[me]

So did I ... Fool!

And sometimes even today, you can get connected to an American call center.

Facts are Fiorina laid off 30,000 people at HP and outsourced jobs during her tenure there.

This from 2008 ....

At Hewlett Packard, Fiorina oversaw the sheltering of over $14 billion in profits overseas, bringing the companies effective tax rate down from 35% to 12%.

At a recent McCain economic event, Fiorina acknowledged the tax incentives to move offshore and explained that Hewlett Packard "left billions of dollars in cash overseas."

In fact, Fiorina, has shown a consistent callousness towards Americans who have lost their jobs through outsourcing and offshoring:


– During her time as CEO, Fiorina was an outspoken defender of Hewlett-Packard's offshoring, referring to it as "right-shoring."

— In 2004, Carly Fiorina gave a speech in which she said, "there is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."



http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2008/06/20/172248/fiorina-history/

Hey Ex.....even BoD used tech support and I'll bet he's a damn sight smarter than you on a computer.

[Purplelady1040]

It was 30,000 not 15,000 that lost the jobs. HP laid off 30,000 if its American workers. All of this was published in Time, Forbes, Business Magazines and is not a rumor!

[me]

So did I ... Fool!

And sometimes even today, you can get connected to an American call center.

Facts are Fiorina laid off 30,000 people at HP and outsourced jobs during her tenure there.

This from 2008 ....

At Hewlett Packard, Fiorina oversaw the sheltering of over $14 billion in profits overseas, bringing the companies effective tax rate down from 35% to 12%.

At a recent McCain economic event, Fiorina acknowledged the tax incentives to move offshore and explained that Hewlett Packard "left billions of dollars in cash overseas."

In fact, Fiorina, has shown a consistent callousness towards Americans who have lost their jobs through outsourcing and offshoring:


– During her time as CEO, Fiorina was an outspoken defender of Hewlett-Packard's offshoring, referring to it as "right-shoring."

— In 2004, Carly Fiorina gave a speech in which she said, "there is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."



http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2008/06/20/172248/fiorina-history/

It was 30,000 not 15,000 that lost the jobs. HP laid off 30,000 if its American workers. All of this was published in Time, Forbes, Business Magazines and is not a rumor!

So you're saying this link BoD posted has it wrong?  Hum....

[Purplelady1040]

WFT?

It was ten years ago! She was forced to resign! She laid off 30,000 people at HP while outsourcing jobs. She was booed at company meetings. While she was CEO, HP's stock prices fell by 65% and its debt nearly doubled.

She has been ranked as one of the worst American (or tech) CEOs of all time.

How can you defend that?

Bo D posted this as the same fact that I did. She will not get the nomination and has no business running our country!

[me]

Bo D posted this as the same fact that I did. She will not get the nomination and has no business running our country!

But the stories are conflicting which leads one to believe some of it isn't what it seems. There is also and explaination as to what else was going on at the time that stock dropped too so even that wasn't entirely her fault. I'm not defending her here but ya'll are picking and choosing information just like ya'll accuse HH and me of doing.

[Purplelady1040]

But the stories are conflicting which leads one to believe some of it isn't what it seems. There is also and explaination as to what else was going on at the time that stock dropped too so even that wasn't entirely her fault. I'm not defending her here but ya'll are picking and choosing information just like ya'll accuse HH and me of doing.

I don't accuse people of picking and choosing information

[Henry Hawk]

Yeah, Mike Suckabee is more your style. 

l would take him over Hillary the lying, crook, any day.😁

[me]

I don't accuse people of picking and choosing information

The rest of them sure do

[The Troll]

l would take him over Hillary the lying, crook, any day.😁

  You say she is a lying crook, prove it bird brain boy.      All of you Republicans are liars and bullshitters.  You Bunky and Fox News proves it every day. 

[Exterminator]

I was meaning it was a fact because I was using the support back then dumb ass. You did not have the automatic knowledge when you first started using computers to be able to build one I'm sure and I had only been using the computer for the most part and was unfamiliar with a lot of things. I could build one now so stick it smart ass.

What's with all of the name calling; did I get on here and call you a stupid cunt?

For the record, I am not technically savvy when it comes to hardware and had never built a computer before.  I just got tired of buying machines that were essentially obsolete by the time they got to me and realized that I could build something much better for about the same amount of money.  I researched, selected my components and put it all together...not really that difficult.

[Bo D]

So you're saying this link BoD posted has it wrong?  Hum....

No. She laid off 15,000 in one fell swoop immediately after acquiring Compaq, then 15,000 more over the course of her tenure there.