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kpete

(71,990 posts)
Sat May 19, 2012, 10:17 AM May 2012

Mitt Romney praises Meg Whitman as she prepares to lay off 30,000 workers

Mitt Romney praises Meg Whitman as she prepares to lay off 30,000 workers


WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/18/1092849/-Mitt-Romney-praises-Meg-Whitman-as-she-prepares-to-lay-off-30-000-workers
Meg Whitman never said she liked to fire people, but on the same day that news of her plans to lay off 30,000 Hewlett-Packard employees leaked to the press, Mitt Romney felt inspired to lavish praise on her managerial skills . .

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Mitt Romney praises Meg Whitman as she prepares to lay off 30,000 workers (Original Post) kpete May 2012 OP
Mittens has never felt so good while still having his clothes on. lpbk2713 May 2012 #1
What's wrong with the picture is that the word "No" is missing from the "Jobs For America" pacalo May 2012 #2
OK, so . . . . just in case you didn't get the memo, that's "JOB CREATORS". HughBeaumont May 2012 #3
cut from the same cloth as me grandfather would say. mulsh May 2012 #4
Well, he does like firing people ... zbdent May 2012 #5
Should Ann be jealous? gratuitous May 2012 #6
Naw...remember he is not "stiff" Lochloosa May 2012 #7
interesting comment following the article Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #8

pacalo

(24,721 posts)
2. What's wrong with the picture is that the word "No" is missing from the "Jobs For America"
Sat May 19, 2012, 10:25 AM
May 2012

banner. They're very good at taking away jobs.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
3. OK, so . . . . just in case you didn't get the memo, that's "JOB CREATORS".
Sat May 19, 2012, 10:40 AM
May 2012

[font size="7"]"Job Creators"[/font]

This after she squandered, what, 100 million on an abyssmal failure of a political campaign? Then she picks right back up after "eating some humble pie" (more on that later), goes into the private sector and "Job Creates".

This makes, what, 100 thousand people laid off from HP in the past 12 years between Chainsaw Carly, Mark Hurd and now Meg Whitless?

What did these workers do to deserve this fate? Who would want to work for this company? What would be the point?

Here's another question: If it was proven positive and public that you somehow blew 100 grand, NOT 100 Million like she did, would you become a high-paid executive at a major corporation involved in making financial decisions?

So, once again . . . "Job Creators", for those not paying attention.

mulsh

(2,959 posts)
4. cut from the same cloth as me grandfather would say.
Sat May 19, 2012, 10:42 AM
May 2012

Seriously I've never seen two greater examples of MBA-armed corporate drones than these two.

 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
8. interesting comment following the article
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:34 PM
May 2012
meg whitman has got kids - young adults actually - to whom the comparison of hitler jugend is only the slightest of hyperbole. they have spewed their anti-semitic, misogynist, racist filth here in the bay area and in new jersey, where one was accused of rape. to call them bullies and thugs is to besmirch the name of bullies and thugs everywhere.

mitt romney kindly whisked away these two very shocking deficits to the whitman campaign, hiding them somewhere in massachusetts where the press wouldn't get at them.
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