Carly and Boxer - Democrat Tactics

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The attacks by Barbara Boxer against her opponent, Carly Fiorina, have been brutal.

What liberals tend to do is take the truth and twist it. Boxer's attack ad against Carly Fiorina is a great example of that. The Barbara Boxer ad that is blanketing the television and radio right now says that "As CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina made a choice to lay off thousands of workers while she shipped jobs overseas and took huge bonuses and perks for herself."

The truth is, Carly Fiorina's decision to lay off thousands of workers and ship jobs overseas was a necessary business move when she was head of Hewlett-Packard Co. Even more interesting about the business move is that it was made necessary because of liberal environmentalist regulations.

Hewlett Packard was disallowed from manufacturing a particular plastic piece for their computers in the United States because of environmental regulations put in place by Democrats. Faced with no alternative, the production operations of the plastic parts were transferred to a facility overseas. By eliminating this function stateside, the company found themselves with excess employees and were forced to lay them off. However, Carly Fiorina first placed an option on the table with the employees to implement shared labor. In other words, those being layed off could remain with the company, but on less hours, if those remaining would be willing to take less hours too and share the total workload with the outgoing employees.

The workers voted the option down, and the layoffs commenced.

Hardly the big bad mean corporate snake that Boxer was trying to make Fiorina out to be. And in reality, this was just another example of how it is actually liberalism that is destroying our economy, and forcing jobs overseas.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary