Comments on: Fiorina: I Received Only A $21 Million Severance Package — Not $42 Million

By: MrSquirrel

MrSquirrel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:19:33 +0000

Are we now officially living in an Orwell novel?

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:33:58 +0000

AAWWWW, can we pass the hat around for the poor thing? She’ll wind up homeless and having to sleep in her Rolls Royce!

About six years back, the two top men in CitiCorp made over $100 million each. About i/4 billion dollars together in one year! And the rich think they are the victims of class warfare and pay too much taxes!

By: robert.waldmann

robert.waldmann — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:21:54 +0000

As quoted Wasserman-Shultz is exactly correct (to rounding error) about the size of Fiorina’s severance package and Fiorina is certainly misquoting her. “$45 million including a $21.5 million severance package.” is a $21.5 million dollar severance package plus an additional separate $23.5 million aside from the severance package. 21.5 is consistent with “about 21.4″ and 23.5 is actually consistent with 21.1 given the difficulty of marking complex assets to market.

Fiorina’s version of what Wasserman-Schultz said is, in contrast, just not what Wasserman-Schultz said.

By: LiberalVoter

LiberalVoter — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:16:58 +0000

42 Million is what she left with. She screwed HP out of a lot more than that during her reign of terror.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:00:11 +0000

Depending on a technicality, Fiorna adds 21 + 21 and gets 21. Sounds like Enron math.

And of course, I really would feel sorry for her had she actually gotten only 21 mil which is only 4 times what McCain defined as the dividing line for the middle class.

By: LiberalVoter

LiberalVoter — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:19:27 +0000

Fiorina can’t help but lie. She is scum.

By: acv

acv — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:14:51 +0000

Wasn’t HP famous for sending jobs overseas?
Wasn’t Fiorina at the wheel when HP tanked?
Is she an example of yet another CEO who profits without accountability?

By: IBTunion4obama

IBTunion4obama — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:27:29 +0000

Fiorina drove HP right into the sh*t hole. She doesn’t deserve a dime.

By: helenahandbasket

helenahandbasket — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:18:56 +0000

Fiorina follows the bush-model. She gets millions for incompetence.
Heck of a job, Carly

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:33:38 +0000

And the wealthy Fiorina won’t scruple to spy on any American without legal authority either!

By: DutchHenry

DutchHenry — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:30:33 +0000

Wow Wasserman-Schultz said that(McCain sounds like Hypocrite)you go girl.

By: margerine

margerine — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:28:52 +0000

“Well he sounds like a hypocrite because he has got a group of lobbyist and corporate interests running his campaign including Carly Fiorina, who walked away when she left Hewlett-Packard with $45 million including a $21.5 million severance package.”

I’m confused. He’s not saying she had a $45 million severance package. He’s saying she received around $45 million in total, part of which was the $21.5 million severance package.

Am I missing something? Because if that’s the case there wasn’t a mistake at all.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:28:23 +0000

Carly is about to get yanked off the air, given her major gaffes.

By: T R L

T R L — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:27:36 +0000

Fiorina should’nt talk so much She isnt logical and she lacks common semce

I couldnt disagree more she should be put out there alot more by mccain and show why john mccain is the Pathetic.Out of touch.Warmonger and she does speak for the mccain camp even tho john mccain doesnt she’s a perfect fit for his campainge

By: tarazan

tarazan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:27:30 +0000

What makes her final payment questionable,whether it was 21 millions or 42 millions, is the fact that Hewlett Packard was not doing well when Fiorina left, and the stock was declining sharply.
She was pressured to leave due to less than staisfactory achievment that lead to decline in the value of the company’s stock.
Fiorina and other CEOs like her leave companies with tens of millions of dollars ,some with hundreds of millions of dollars in their final payment while leaving behind failing companies either about to go under or approaching that critical point.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:26:57 +0000

They spied on board members they suspected of leaking confidential corporate information. I did a few commentaries on it in fall of 2006. A link is below for those interested.

http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/search?q=HP

By: pete

pete — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:24:23 +0000

Wasn’t she fired, in part, for illegally spying on HP employees?

Yes, Bobwurst, I believe she was.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:21:50 +0000

Given her two feet in mouth insertion today, Carly better invest that $42 million well.

If McCon-Pullin’ aren’t qualified to run a major company, they’re surely not capable of running the Executive Branch of our federal government.

By: Bobwurst

Bobwurst — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:08:02 +0000

Wasn’t she fired, in part, for illegally spying on HP employees?

By: Bobwurst

Bobwurst — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:06:41 +0000

And if Fiona finds my post sexist, then how about this, her response is like a republican who says he always wears a condom when he sodomizes a pig…