Carly Fiorina runs for Senate

OK, priorities are:
1) Low taxes
2) Decreased regulation
3) Access to credit
All right, we had 8 years of George Bush & Co. which pushed these same priorities. How'd that work out?

Question for Ms. Fiorina:

1. What are your views on the causes of poverty

2. What is your view on the exponentiality of wealth and how does that relate to your view of progressive tax?

After the 2004 election, Barbara Boxer supported and co-signed complaints from the US House of Represetatives regarding election irregularities (including voter supression, electronic voting machines and lack of adequate voting facilities in certain voting districts). Boxer was the only Senator to do so. I would like to know if Ms. Fiorina would have co-signed those complaints if she were in office at that time. Will she sign and support complaints of similar election irregularities if they occur in the future?

Medicare has a 2-3% administrative cost. We can have our own opinions but not our own facts. Good luck getting your breast cancer treated in a low-cost health clinic.

Is she serious? "Government hasn't shown they can run health care"? Ask the people who have no coverage how private health care has done for them. I would put the Veteran's Administration or Medicaid againt private insurance any minute of any day!

Ms. FIorina just said that seniors like Medicare and are worried about losing it. Huh?

I'm challenging her statement that the U.S. government has shown it cannot provide good healthcare. Ms. Fiorina said "ask the veterans." Uh, I've heard veterans by and large are quite satisfied with their system. (Maybe not the current soldiers returning from overseas overwhelming the system with head injuries, I don't know.) Also, I don't see lots of complaints about medicare either. Medicare for all would be the ideal system. the private insurance system is bankrupting us at the profit of some people at the top. It's not changing because the congress is pretty much paid off by these companies. It's a broken system.

Larry: I appreciate your efforts to be a friendly and patient listener, but some of us would like you to be a bit more like Jon Stewart and challenge the ridiculous things that your guests say.

Carly took HP from 44 billion to 88 billion, making stockholders very happy while causing 3 of my family members to lose jobs in her merger of HP and Compaq. One of my sisters who lost her job sunk into a deep depression when she, a very hard worker, could not get hired anywhere for several years due to her age --she wss in her 60s. And losing her job meant she had no means to pay for mental health care.

So, when Carly Fiorina talks about job creation, she needs to give full disclosure. Sadly, numbers of job lost under her tenure do not fully explain the personal losses suffered by those individuals.

44 billion was just not enough revenue for her.

Thank you for that, Teri. It's the hypocrisy that gets me sometimes.

Wow, she really stepped into it and revealed just how much she doesn't know about current clinic safety-net systems across the country. Ms. Fiorina, have you ever heard of Federally Qualified Health Centers? In 2002 dear old Georgie W initiated a multi-year initiative to increase the number of FQHCs across the country. There are also many non-FQHC free and community clinics nationwide. Why recreate the wheel, Ms. Fiorina, why not invest in existing infrastructure proven to work?

As for the loan repayment programs for doctors, another wheel she wants to recreate. As stated above, why not propose to inject current programs that work with extra dollars?

Ms. Fiorina has a lot of homework to do. Today's interview was a whole lot less than impressive.

The misrepresentations that Mr. Mantle let go without so much as a peep were astounding to me. Fiorina says that the health care plan passed in the House is government take over of health care and compared the result to the VA. First of all the plan does no such thing and satisfaction with the VA is pretty high. Are there problems with the VA? To be sure. Then she goes on to say that the plan will possibly reduce Medicare payments or quality for seniors - on what does she base that?

She also compared setting up a plant in Ukraine with setting up a plant in California. So is that what we want Carly? To be Ukraine? No safety for workers, no health and environmental checks against polluters? No anti-discrimination laws? Tom Campbell says the same thing. I'll stack California up against Ukraine any day of the week. Remember Chernobyl is in the Ukraine. Can we streamline regulations? No doubt but we don't want to be Ukraine.

So, Fiorina is basically in lock step with the Republican line--she and Meg Whitman are pretty much the same person. From their plans to save the state to their tortured stance on gay marriage. I can't see any reason to vote for either of them.

@Gerry "Larry: I appreciate your efforts to be a friendly and patient listener, but some of us would like you to be a bit more like Jon Stewart and challenge the ridiculous things that your guests say."

I totally disagree with you on this. Larry's journalism is above reproach, and unbiased. If you listened carefully, you may have heard Larry's question about private insurars congregating to states with fewer regulations. Fiorina definitely stumbled there. A journalist doesn't always have to point out the obvious. That's what's so great about listening to his show. It's for a more sophisticated audience.