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There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore - Carly Fiorina, Jan. 7, 2004, CEO Hewlett-Packard

John McCain has one hell of a rude attitude toward Michigan.  McCain is campaigning with Ms. No American has a God given right to a Job ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina.  Fiorina promoted offshore outsourcing, fired people right and left, turned Hewlett Packard into a shadow of it’s former glory right in the middle of the last economic recession. 

 Turn to today, Michigan has been decimated by offshore outsourcing, insourcing, insane trade agreements and CEOs who obtain obscene amounts of money for running their companies into the ground, making bad mergers and laying off their workers.  So, what does McCain do?  Try to sell them on the corporate agenda claiming it’s tough talk.  No McCain, it’s the corporate agenda and not policies for the interests of workers, Michigan or the United States of America.

If it isn’t insulting enough to see a Politician campaign with one of the shining examples of what is wrong with the United States economy - greedy, power driven, short sighted CEOs who have no loyalty to America, their companies or their workers, we get additional propaganda claiming destroying companies right and left is needed to remain competitive. 

 (Could it be to remain competitive might mean to not trash the jobs and industries which made America great in the first place?)

John McCain - Some candidates say they know all the answers. As president, I’ll call on people like Carly

To show his intent, McCain hands Fiorina the microphone to answer a voter’s question on home mortage financial crisis caused by predatory lenders. Fiorina’s response while mumbling a few token phrases on shaky new financial “vehicles” was quite telling:

I don’t read 15 page documents when I take out a mortgage

Great!    Someone supposedly who has some business acumen doesn’t read a simple 15 page mortgage contract and that should be the policy correction?   Shorter contracts?  Nothing about reigning in predatory lenders, confronting fraud, offering government low interest refinancing?  Yup, the answer is no one reads the fine print.  McCain obviously has a great adviser there or should I say a great advocate to continue the rape and pillage of the United States economy and the middle class in favor of Corporate raiders and private equity managers.

It’s worst than that, it appears she is advising both the DoD and the CIA.  Now what kind of advice could it be, how to offshore outsource our critical security and technology infrastructure to the Chinese?

Even worse, it is apparent that Fiorina is trying to obtain unlimited H-1B guest worker Visas to offshore outsource even more US technology and displace American workers. The Chronicle reports that she is pushing the Silicon valley agenda on immigration. See There is no Tech worker Shortage for some actual facts versus this corporate labor arbitrage agenda.

McCain, by bringing Fiorina as backup, insults the people of Michigan.  The state is ground zero for what the real effects are on real people, real economics of this Corporate globalization labor arbitrage, short sighted agenda.   What has happened to Michigan, McCain obviously wants to further enable with the presence of Fiorina.  McCain implies just that same level of economic decimation with economic and trade policies written by corporate lobbyists which he often presents (See comprehensive immigraton reform for one). 

Talk about an insider game!  Someone promoting offshore outsourcing, firing people right and left inside one of the previously most innovative companies brings fear to my soul.   She has weaseled inside our defense agencies and now is working on a possible Presidential administration.

I just pray that Michigan realizes that try as he might, McCain is not peddling straight talk, but straight corporate propaganda instead.

 Some of those jobs are going and … they’re not coming back

said McCain when talking to desperate workers in Michigan. With McCain, that’s  sure to  happen by pushing bad trade positions, promoting offshore outsourcing and bad fiscal policy per corporate lobbyist campaign contributors.
 

Endnote, someone in the U.K. has fun but the serious message that Carly Fiorina is trying to buy the U.S. Presidency and a Sun Corporate made spoof showing how Fiorina brought a wrecking ball to HP.