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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (264637)	6/17/2002 1:29:04 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Six (6) interest rate increases between 1999 to 2000. The markets would have stabilized as a matter of course, but Greenspan sucker punched the market with his artificial deflation (as in collapsing the tech bubble). This left the individual investor vulnerable as brokers moved their heavy hitters out of harm's way. The CFO's and executive managers head what? Corporations and Bush wanted to give corporations what? Tax rebates, right out of your pocket and mine so they could continue to get rid of employees and send work overseas... As to Fiorinio's CPQ/HP merger, that was in the works over a year ago. For the first time in HP's history, employees were worried. In the past it was HP's policy not to let anyone go. Under Fiorino as of September 8, 2001, the word was out that with the merger 40,000 employees would lose their jobs.