Carly Fiorina’s Promise–To lay Off As Many Bureaucrats As She Laid Off HP Employees [Picture]

Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is rising in the republican polls even as she continues to take heavy criticism for her tenure as the CEO from Hewlett Packard, a job from which she was fired. Critics point to the troubling financials of the company while she was running, botched mergers, the computers that she was illegally selling to Iran, and the fact that she laid off a high number of HP employees. Now she says if she becomes President she’ll put even more people out of work.

Appearing on an interview with Fox News, Fiorina attempted to defend her record at Hewlett Packard, pleading ignorance on the Iran controversy and claiming that she had no idea the sales were happening under her nose while she was CEO. But her most eyebrow raising answer may have been when she defended the massive layoffs she triggered at HP by saying that she wants to become President so she can lay off numerous government employees instead. Or as she puts it, “there are some jobs that have to go away.”      source