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Donald Trump accused Carly Fiorina of being a terrible businesswoman. Here are the facts
Washington compost ^ | Danielle Paquette

Posted on 09/19/2015 8:36:24 AM PDT by amnestynone

Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, is running for president on her business smarts. She led the company from 1999 to 2005, the first female head of a Fortune 50 firm — and controversies from her high-profile tenure resurfaced Wednesday at the Republican debate.

"Yes, we had to make tough choices," Fiorina said on the prime-time stage, "and in doing so, we saved 80,000 jobs, went on to grow to 160,000 jobs. And now Hewlett-Packard is almost 300,000 jobs. We went from lagging behind to leading in every product category and every market segment."

"The company is a disaster and continues to be a disaster," Donald Trump responded later in the night. "They still haven't recovered. In fact, today, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, they fired another 25 or 30,000 people saying we still haven't recovered from the catastrophe."

Trump is among a chorus of increasingly vocal Fiorina critics. Before her team could grab the space, a cybersquatter purchased CarlyFiorina.org,

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fiorina; repositorycarly
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To: Lizavetta

No - HE did not. Not personally - he filed chapter 11 which is a business restructuring. I do wish people would educate themselves on issues and stop parroting what the MSM feeds them. Garbage in - garbage out,.


21 posted on 09/19/2015 8:50:41 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: relictele
Golly, if I didn’t know better I’d think there was a centrally coordinated effort to pump up Fiorina while denigrating Trump.

That's been happening since 6/16/2015. It just gets more intense as Trump continues to dominate those who are pre-paid and owned.

22 posted on 09/19/2015 8:50:44 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: theoilpainter

“...THE DONALD, who was born wealthy and stayed wealthy...”

That’s incorrect. He was born wealthy, at one point his net worth dropped to less than 0, then he became vastly more wealthy than when he was born.


23 posted on 09/19/2015 8:51:04 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: theoilpainter

Yes, except who trusts the Compost to be the ones to that, unless they have an agenda to choose the GOP candidate?


24 posted on 09/19/2015 8:51:38 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“Carly started the downfall,, Whitman is finishing HP off.”

Looking at HP’s stock price now compared to five and fourteen years ago, you are correct.

But things could always change. They could get another exec who might turn it around.


25 posted on 09/19/2015 8:52:31 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Lizavetta

“Didn’t he declare bankruptcy a few times?”

Are people allowed to make mistakes in business?


26 posted on 09/19/2015 8:53:24 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: amnestynone
The liberals are scared to death of Fiorina. A strong Republican "woman" candidate.

It destroys all of their myths about the democrat party being the party of women, minorities, middle class.

Carly has a hard edge to her. No doubt.

Both she and Trump would be like hiring professional mercenaries, hired guns. To paraphrase George Washington: " Like fire, they would be dangerous servants and fearful masters."

27 posted on 09/19/2015 8:56:59 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

They should have merged with Larry Ellison.


28 posted on 09/19/2015 8:57:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: amnestynone

Donald Trump is an entrepreneur who risks everything on projects he believes in and has lost big and won big.

Carly is an EEOC bureaucratic ladder-climber who was an HP Human Resources affirmative-action project.


29 posted on 09/19/2015 8:57:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: Calpublican

“Few business articles about her mention the changes into the product line during her tenure. The changes harmed the brand.”

I was doing IT at the time. Everyone in the industry knew Compaq was a doorstop.


30 posted on 09/19/2015 8:58:25 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: oldbrowser
The liberals are scared to death of Fiorina. A strong Republican "woman" candidate.

No they're not, she's easy pickings.

31 posted on 09/19/2015 8:58:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BigEdLB

CNN had that lady Lucent employee from Trump’s rally on live yesterday giving her horror story about Carly. She was wiped out and lost a half million dollars in stock thanks to Carly.


32 posted on 09/19/2015 9:01:44 AM PDT by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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To: All

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/16/Interactivity/Images/GOP_debate_composite_2016b.jpg

What’s the deal with the illustrations on that article, Ben Carson looks a bit like, well, a lot of people actually: https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/16/Interactivity/Images/GOP_debate_composite_2016b.jpg Most of the others are okay.


33 posted on 09/19/2015 9:02:07 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Lizavetta

Personally no!
Companies he owned may have like GM.


34 posted on 09/19/2015 9:03:08 AM PDT by Kozy
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To: Catsrus

Lighten up, Francis. I was merely asking.


35 posted on 09/19/2015 9:04:43 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: amnestynone

Bankruptcy can be used as a negotiating tactic.

If you are a skilled negotiator.

It is used to determine how loss should be allocated between borrower and lender.

Business runs in cycles.


36 posted on 09/19/2015 9:05:57 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Calpublican
"Few business articles about her mention the changes into the product line during her tenure. The changes harmed the brand."

Which changes?? Spinning off Agilent? Destroying the "HP Way" culture? Or drastically and negatively affecting the quality of the products that HP kept??

I think the last one is the most damaging. The HP "brand" once stood for absolute top quality products. "AF" ("After Fiorina"), HP products were no longer "top of the line", but "middle of the pack" at best.

When I first got into the "PC" world, the only printers I would buy were HP (early BW inkjet, early color injet, BW laserjet). Then "AF" I had the misfortune to get an HP"all-in-one", which was a piece of absolute ****. I switched to Canon for the "all-in-one" functionality, and it is still going strong.

My perception from outside is that "PF" ("Post Fiorina"), that the quality has gotten better.

37 posted on 09/19/2015 9:06:49 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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To: Lizavetta
Trump has never declared bankruptcy. Four of his hundreds of business ventures went belly up, bankrupt. One of his better lines “My casino in Atlantic City went bankrupt because I had an all you can eat buffet in the same state as Chris Christie".

LOL, you just have to like Trump.

38 posted on 09/19/2015 9:07:40 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: mrsmel

Agree. The Compost will ultimately endorse the Dem for Pres, without regard to who the Rep candidate is.


39 posted on 09/19/2015 9:09:55 AM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: Catsrus

Cankles has had some “work” done...just not enough.
When she “hit her head” was likely when that occurred.


40 posted on 09/19/2015 9:10:38 AM PDT by Mountain Mary ("Where Liberty Dwells, There Is My Country". Ben Franklin)
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