She is very articulate, and that ad was great. However...
You apparently are lazy and unable to do research. That's okay most people are that's why they end up in the 47-49% that Mitt was talking about in the video LuLuDrops linked.
Yes, I'm lazy sometimes, but I will research if I have to.
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As a now-official presidential candidate, there’s no way Carly Fiorina can ignore her tenure at Hewlett-Packard, which she ran as CEO for six tumultuous years before the board ousted her in 2005. By that time, the company’s stock had lost about half its value and tens of thousands of people had lost their jobs.
Fiorina took H-P’s helm in 1999 at the height of the tech boom. She left after the boom went bust. It seems likely that H-P, a giant in office equipment, would have faced huge challenges no matter who was running the company. But most observers—including the company’s board—have concluded that she made a bad situation worse than it might otherwise have been.
Fiorina came to H-P after quickly rising through the executive ranks at AT&T and later its spinoff, Lucent Technologies. Her record at that point was, by all accounts, stellar. When she started as CEO, she was the first woman to head a Fortune 20 company. Her ascension was presented as a major historical turning point.
Right away, she began planning to restructure the company, and took heat for laying off thousands of workers. The decision to spin-off a division that made technical testing equipment into what became Agilent Technologies predated her arrival. She managed that spinoff in a successful IPO.
She quickly turned her attention to remaking Hewlett-Packard. The plan was to directly take on IBM as an end-to-end, computing-and-services business. One of her first moves was to announce the acquisition of the tech services division of Pricewaterhousecoopers for $14 billion. When Wall Street balked, she withdrew the offer. After the dotcom crash, IBM picked up the division for $4 billion.
She next set her sights on Compaq Computer in 2002 for $19 billion. That decision continues to haunt both Fiorina and H-P.
Taking on Compaq was controversial from the get-go. A bruising-but-unsuccessful proxy battle ensued. Walter Hewlett, a board member and son of company co-founder Walter Hewlett, vehemently opposed the deal. Outside observers and some big shareholders that it would dilute the company’s core, profitable printer business. It did much more than that, with H-P’s results sinking every quarter. Eventually, it led to 17,000 more people being laid off as Dell Computer, much more highly focused on the PC market, came to dominate.
Upon her exit, H-P gave Fiorina what was widely considered a “golden parachute” worth about $40 million.
When she was finally ousted, the board insisted that it wasn’t because of corporate results, but because of her “management style.” Fiorina, who was often described as imperious and distant, took a lot of criticism for giving herself big bonuses even while laying people off, and for hitting the speaking circuit even while the company was in a tailspin.
That presents perhaps Fiorina’s greatest challenge, since it’s her record as a manager that she is now citing as a reason to elect her president. An even greater challenge? The fact that so many lists of history’s “worst CEOs” include her name.
Under Carly’s leadership, great things happened at HP:
Doubled revenues
More than quadrupled its growth rate
Tripled the rate of innovation, with 11 patents a day
Quadrupled cash-flow
Moved from 28th to 11th largest company in the United States
Do your own research and provide it to us as a counter-argument then to truly make your point. This is what I was talking about earlier with you - passive-aggressive underhanded insults instead of a debate.
My research is provided in several posts and others have also posted the same. How many times do I need to post it? Every time someone makes an ignorant statement?
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Why specifically do you agree with Mitt and what's his research behind his statement of 47%?
I don't disagree or agree one way or the other but for the sake of argument it'd be nice if you actually took the advice you offered earlier to make this a "well organized" thread, whatever that means.
Why is Mitt even being talked about? He isn't running and his 47% comment has no bearing on this thread. If you really want to know why I agree PM me.
Yes, I'm lazy sometimes, but I will research if I have to.
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As a now-official presidential candidate, there’s no way Carly Fiorina can ignore her tenure at Hewlett-Packard, which she ran as CEO for six tumultuous years before the board ousted her in 2005. By that time, the company’s stock had lost about half its value and tens of thousands of people had lost their jobs.
Fiorina took H-P’s helm in 1999 at the height of the tech boom. She left after the boom went bust. It seems likely that H-P, a giant in office equipment, would have faced huge challenges no matter who was running the company. But most observers—including the company’s board—have concluded that she made a bad situation worse than it might otherwise have been.
1999 at the height of the tech boom? 1999 was the height of the Dot-com bubble bursting. Where do you get your info from seriously? She literally took the helm at the worst possible time anyone in the tech industry could accept a CEO job.
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Fiorina came to H-P after quickly rising through the executive ranks at AT&T and later its spinoff, Lucent Technologies. Her record at that point was, by all accounts, stellar. When she started as CEO, she was the first woman to head a Fortune 20 company. Her ascension was presented as a major historical turning point.
Right away, she began planning to restructure the company, and took heat for laying off thousands of workers. The decision to spin-off a division that made technical testing equipment into what became Agilent Technologies predated her arrival. She managed that spinoff in a successful IPO.
She quickly turned her attention to remaking Hewlett-Packard. The plan was to directly take on IBM as an end-to-end, computing-and-services business. One of her first moves was to announce the acquisition of the tech services division of Pricewaterhousecoopers for $14 billion. When Wall Street balked, she withdrew the offer. After the dotcom crash, IBM picked up the division for $4 billion.
Because the whole industry was CRASHING around her.
Cisco lost 88% of the market cap. Cisco the company that some thought would reach 1 trillion in valuation.
Amazon and Ebay stock crashed from 107 a share to 7 dollars a share.
Companies were dropping like flies.
Every tech company was losing and laying off workers. You can always find someone axed from one of these companies that will tell you how bad the CEO was because they were fired. Meg has let go 55,000 people at HP since she took over nearly double Carly and she isn't getting hammered. You do what you have to do to keep the company moving forward. Not every decision you make is a going to pan out either. It's the nature of business it's brutal.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R) was among the Florida state legislators who voted for the so-called "Scarlet Letter" law in 2001 that required single mothers to publish their sexual histories in the newspaper in order to place their babies up for adoption.
Five U.S. congressmen -- Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R), Lois Frankel (D), Jeff Miller (R), Gus Bilirakis (R) and Dennis Ross (R) -- were state legislators at the time and voted for the controversial bill. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), Frederica Wilson (D), Daniel Webster (R) and Bill Posey (R), who were also state legislators back then, voted against it.
The law, which passed with overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, required unwed moms who wished to put their babies up for adoptions to post details about their recent sexual encounters in the newspaper in an attempt to contact the father, even if the woman was a victim of rape or incest. The purpose of the bill was to inform estranged biological fathers that their children were being adopted and give them the chance to intervene.
The "Scarlet Letter" law gained media attention this week after The Huffington Post reported that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) had advocated for the public shaming of unwed parents in his 1995 book. Bush allowed the controversial law to go into effect in 2001, but signed a repeal of it two years later after it was successfully challenged in court.
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Dr. Jill Stein officially launches her campaign as a Green Party candidate for the 2016 presidential race. "I have a people-powered campaign," Stein notes. "I am running with the only national party that does not take corporate funding." Stein, a physician and activist who first ran in 2012, outlines her platform. She joins the fray as the race for the Democratic Party nomination heats up. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, has emerged as Hillary Clinton’s main rival for the party’s nomination, as his poll ratings have surged in recent weeks.
Everything they find on Rubio is ancient history like them going after his tickets then his house and 'luxury' boat which is a standard fishing boat. They need something more then 15 years old and obscure.
Everything they find on Rubio is ancient history like them going after his tickets then his house and 'luxury' boat which is a standard fishing boat. They need something more then 15 years old and obscure.
Washington (CNN)As Vice President Joe Biden slowly returns to official duties in Washington following his son's death, a decision on mounting a third presidential bid looms in the not-so-distant future.
In just more than a month, Biden will determine whether or not to make another go at the top job. And while many Democrats say they're doubtful he will launch a presidential campaign, his supporters are holding out hope he decides to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
As he steps back into public life, Biden has set an early August deadline for making his intentions known, said a Democrat familiar with his thinking.
He’s dismissed by the political professionals, but there is no denying that the appetite for Donald Trump among Republican primary voters is real. The New York developer and reality television star is second among 2016 presidential candidates in a new Suffolk University poll of New Hampshire Republicans – behind only former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The poll of 500 likely GOP presidential primary voters found 14% back Mr. Bush. Mr. Trump is right behind at 11%. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio come next, with 8% and 7%, respectively. The poll tested 19 GOP candidates – a rare survey that included ultra-longshots like Mark Everson and former Govs. Bob Ehrlich and Jim Gilmore. While Mr. Trump is experiencing a bump in popularity after announcing the launch of his campaign last week (he filed formal Federal Elections Commission paperwork Monday), he remains the most disliked GOP candidate in the field. [...]
KENNER, La. — Gov. Bobby Jindal, who is Louisiana’s first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction but whose popularity plummeted as the state struggled with a $1.6 billion shortfall, announced Wednesday that he is running for president in 2016.
Mr. Jindal, 44, an Indian-American, joins the crowded field of Republican contenders in what even his supporters call a long-shot candidacy.
Standing before a giant American flag at an event center in this New Orleans suburb, Mr. Jindal presented himself as a policy writer whose résumé — as a two-term governor and a former congressman who once led the state health agency and the University of Louisiana system — sets him apart. He said that Louisiana cut the number of “government bureaucrats” by more than 30,000 positions, and that the state now had the highest population in its history, with more people moving to Louisiana than leaving it.
“There are a lot of great talkers running for president already,” Mr. Jindal said, adding: “We’ve had enough of talkers. It is time for a doer.”
Mr. Jindal, who took office in 2008, has kept a low profile on the national stage compared with Jeb Bush, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and other Republican candidates and likely candidates. And his approval numbers in the state have fallen sharply as he nears the end of his tenure amid criticism that he has been more focused on laying the groundwork for a presidential run than on Louisiana’s fiscal troubles.
Mr. Jindal’s announcement came two days after a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found him sharing the bottom of a list of 16 candidates. In the telephone survey, zero percent of Republican primary voters said Mr. Jindal was their top pick to be the nominee. Mr. Bush earned 22 percent.
Low support in national polls may have especially significant consequences: Fox News and CNN are limiting the first two major debates to candidates who rank in the top 10 in polls.
“I don’t think anybody in Louisiana thinks he can win,” said Roy Fletcher, a Republican political consultant in Baton Rouge who was deputy campaign manager for Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000.
In his speech, Mr. Jindal, who was raised as a Hindu but converted to Roman Catholicism, made a forceful appeal to Christian conservatives, accusing liberals of putting Christianity “under assault.” Before he took the stage, a pastor led the audience in a prayer asking God to fill Mr. Jindal “with the purposes and the plans that you have.”
“I know that some believe I talk too much about my faith, but I will not be silenced,” Mr. Jindal told supporters. “I will not be silenced in order to meet their expectations of political correctness. They don’t seem to accept the idea that you can be both intellectual and Christian.”
Mr. Jindal struck another theme popular with social conservatives, blaming President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for “leading America down the path to destruction” economically, culturally and internationally. He also went after Mr. Bush, criticizing him for saying, as he described it, that Republicans need to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election. “What Jeb Bush is saying is that we need to hide our conservative ideals,” Mr. Jindal said. “But the truth is, if we go down that road again, we will lose again.”
Mr. Jindal’s campaign strategists acknowledged his poor showing in national polls and lack of name recognition, but they expressed confidence that he had a message and a path to victory, casting him as the youngest candidate with the longest résumé in a wide open Republican race. They said that in such a crowded field, all it takes to win Iowa, and alter the dynamics of the race, is 26,000 votes.
“You don’t have a leader sitting at the top,” said Curt Anderson, Mr. Jindal’s chief strategist, adding, “We start from nowhere, and we’re completely fine with that.”
Unmentioned in Mr. Jindal’s speech, however, were some of Louisiana’s hardships.
The state has the seventh-highest unemployment rate and the third-highest poverty rate in the country. In February, Moody’s Investors Service, the credit-rating agency, revised the state’s financial outlook from stable to negative, citing its structural budget imbalance.
“Governor Jindal has failed Louisiana in every way possible, and there’s no reason to believe he will have any more success as a candidate than he did as governor,” said State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, the chairwoman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.
Mr. Jindal’s drop in popularity in Louisiana is a reversal of fortune of sorts. He was elected in October 2007 largely in reaction to the failures of his Democratic predecessor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
And he had the reputation of a kind of wonky boy genius. At age 24 in 1996, he was appointed secretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, the biggest department in state government, and he quickly went to work cutting jobs and slashing its budget.
Yet over two terms as governor, Mr. Jindal’s approval ratings have dipped in part because of his handling of the state’s budget woes. Policy experts and lawmakers attributed the budget shortfall, the state’s worst in decades, in part to the downturn in oil prices that hurt Louisiana and other energy-producing states and in part to the Jindal administration’s fiscal policies.
This month, lawmakers reached an agreement to close the $1.6 billion shortfall that, because of a complex arrangement of tax credits, allows Mr. Jindal to technically claim that the state passed a balanced budget without raising new tax revenue.
Republicans called the governor’s tax credit plan, centering on an “assessment” on the state’s public college students that no one will actually pay, “money laundering” and “nonsense.”
Mr. Jindal and his aides defended his record and his tax credit plan, saying the budget that was passed protected higher education and health care but was in line with his philosophy of reducing the scale of government.
