Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Steve Poizner are just the beginning: The merchant princes and princesses of Silicon Valley are sure they could do a better job running the country
Maybe it was the warm spring air and the double Jack Daniels, or maybe I was just bored. I dozed as I listened to former tech execs Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner spar in a televised debate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California. And I had a dream ...
SACRAMENTO, May 6, 2011 -- California Gov. Meg Whitman and U.S. Senator Carly Fiorna today announced their plan to bring the state "into line with Silicon Valley as it moves into the second decade of the 21st century."
The two ex-CEOs turned successful politicians said in a joint statement "that merging California and Nevada will not only allow us to build on the synergies between these two great states, but will allow us to realize a savings in governmental costs of at least $25 billion a year."
Sen. Fiorina, who led the 2002 merger of Compaq into Hewlett-Packard, said she will apply those lessons as she helps govern the new state of Calivada. "When you dial 911, you'll no longer have to wait for some government bureaucrat to come to your aid. The calls will be routed to a private outsourcer based in Mumbai, who will respond to your request with all the blazing speed computer users have come to expect from India-based help desks."
The proposed Calivada would join MassaHampshire and New Texazona as the first U.S. states to issue their own visas; approximately 50,000 workers a year will be admitted under the new H1000B-1 program, designed says Secretary of State Larry Ellison, "to alleviate the critical shortage of coders, developers, and file clerks that has crippled our high tech-industries."
Meanwhile, Attorney General Steve Jobs defended the use of waterboarding to extract confessions from two Web journalists who allegedly found a prototype of the iPhone 5G at the Cupertino city dump. "Their possession of that information was a ticking time bomb. There was no time for Miranda rights and other wimpy excuses," he said.
And in Washington, D.C., California's other senator, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, hailed the passage of the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealing all laws related to electronic privacy. "Privacy? You don't have any. So you might as well get over it," he told the reporter for the Times-Post-Journal-Today, America's last major daily newspaper.
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