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.
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Great article.
Somebody needs to tell the people of Michigan that Fiorina:
- failed miserably at HP …
- and was rewarded handsomely with millions of dollars …
- while stockholders lost money and …
- while employees suffered through massive layoffs …
I’m sure the people of Michigan can relate to mass layoffs.
It’s the policies espoused by both that have caused Michigan’s economy to be the wreck that it is. You’d have to be a fool or a masochist to vote for more economic pain from John McCain.
Also, it’s the lower and middle classes that will continue to bear the pain of the “touch choices” these two elites preach.
Neither one of them will be hurt by offshoring, displaced by guest workers, or need worry about a pension, health care costs, college tuition, the cost of retraining for a new career, …
Why is McCain touting Fiorina on Meet the Press this morning as someone that he counts on to get good financial advice? Are we supposed to be excited that he would use Fiorina for advice on our economy after her non-stellar record at HP? I agree with your article that Fiorina is a short sighted corporate hack. I only hope that most voters do not endorse this dangerous recklessness and potential weight on our economy.
somebody please…STOP OFFSHORING! it’s just not fair for us who work hard in this country. why don’t we just offshore our government to india or our army? maybe their salaries and maintenance costs there are cheaper right? One only realizes the pain of offshoring if it’s their jobs/dreams that are at stake…let’s offshore fiorina’s job..maybe she’ll get our point.
i have started to switch many of my consumer staple purchases from expensive brand names to cheaper generics. this only works when the generic product is equivalent to the brand name or the cost savings brought by the generic is worth more than the reduction in quality. i never think of whether or not this is “fair” to the brand name product. i don’t buy any generics when it comes to certain products (ie: consumer electronics) because of quality issues and i am willing to pay the premium.
perhaps it’s time for those whose work has a “generic” equivalent to start thinking about getting into a line of work where their quality can be shown.
now add meg whitman to the equasion. sorry day for the senator. what is he thinking?
Michigan’s problem is their Democratic Governor who has pitched most of their jobs away. Who really sent the jobs overseas?–Willy Clinton when he signed NAFTA in 1993. Gore also signed the veto on drilling. If he hadn’t you would have reasonable gas prices today. Nancy Pelousy is another woman screwing things up, not even allowing a vote to come up on drilling because she and Harry “Where’s Tommy” Reid and Barack are getting paid off by the Environmentalists (Sierra Club, etc.) because they know you are dumb enough to elect more of the people who won’t allow drilling, clean coal, shale, nuclear, -the only things Dems want are blow jobs (windmills) which produce no savings after you pay for the cost of keeping them going. Going for nuclear, drilling, etc., above will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and stimulate the economy, but who does not want this growth–the unions which is why their membership is down to 15% from when I grew up — 83%.
Ask the unions why they don’t want jobs produced–once answer–we’re Democrats. The real problem in America is not the congress but YOU the voters–push them all out of office Republicans and Democrats and start over, since they certainly want to listen to only their pocketbooks, ca ching, ca ching, ca ching. If McCain wants to win he needs to appoint a woman as his VP, and my vote goes to the Governor of Alaska (a super talented woman) Start an email drive to McCain HQ for her.
I don’t think most of this is true. Yes, corporate generated trade deals accelerated under Clinton but starting with Reagan they really took off. Bush is the worse, he did nothing to stop these bad trade deals and by conservative views…somehow a trade deficit is not your typical good idea. Now McCain wants more of these bad trade deals and frankly Dems are not much better on trade, only talking about environmental and labor standards. Now sure we should be producing our own oil but wind is cost effective, extremely so and the issue is the power line infrastructure. It’s corporations who are moving jobs offshore, not Democrats. That said, both parties are completely corrupt with corporate influence. Billions of dollars, 41,000 lobbyists. That means even if you want to argue policy issues you don’t stand a prayer’s chance against whatever corporations want.
Don’t think alternative energy is an either/or choice…don’t drink the partisan kool-aid. A good idea for the country that works…it’s a good idea.
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