Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican presidential candidate, spoke at a house party in Londonderry on Monday night. Fiorina, as the lone female candidate in the growing pack of Republican candidates, has attracted attention due to her willingness and ability to criticize Hillary Clinton. For many disgruntled voters, the fact that she is a political outsider is also a plus. Fiorina discussed how her situation is really not the opposite of Barrack Obama’s skill set when he became president. Many feel that Obama was a skilled politician who lacked executive experience. Carly Fiorina does have a wealth of business and executive experience, but she also feels that she has enough political experience to be job ready on day 1.
One proof that Fiorina is politically savvy would be that she has enough sense to avoid the third rail of politics–Social Security. She believes that before government attempts to reform important entitlement programs it needs to fix or eliminate poorly performing agencies. She is critical of the Small Business Administration which she says does nothing for small businesses. She also singled out the Job Corps Program as a failure. Other priorities for President Fiorina would be to fix the Veterans Administration and the legal immigration system. She believes that government needs to show that it can be competent before the people will trust it to reform the entitlement system.
