Carly Fiorina Promises To Cut Federal Jobs, Just Like She Did At HP | ThinkProgress

PolitiFact's analysis of the 30,000 claims is quite interesting as it shows her rationalization of the facts,

In its response to the Boxer ad, the Fiorina campaign claims the only numbers that are relevant are the ones that show that in October 1999, HP had about 84,400 employees worldwide; and in October 2005, the company had 150,000 employees worldwide -- so that under Fiorina's leadership HP nearly doubled its number of employees worldwide.

It's not that simple. For one, there was the Compaq merger. Pre-merger, the companies had a combined workforce of 148,100.

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, was grilled Sunday by Fox Chris Wallace about her record of laying off about 30,000 employees over her tenure. Fiorina suggested she would bring the same job elimination approach as president.

Wallace noted to Fiorina that Democrats had successfully defeated former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) in 2012, in part, by highlighting his record of layoffs over his time at Bain Capital and asked how she would avoid the same fate if she were the nominee.

Fiorina responded by pointing out that “not all businesspeople are the same,” just like not all politicians who run for president lose.

She then suggested that “the vast majority of Americans understand that in tough times, sometimes tough decisions have to be made.”

Carly Fiorina Promises To Cut Federal Jobs, Just Like She Did At HP | ThinkProgress