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Rest easy, Hewlett Packard employees, retirees and the legions of Coloradans laid off by the technology giant. Ex-CEO Carly Fiorina has some words of wisdom for President Barack Obama on how to run a business.

Fiorina criticizes the president’s mandate on capping executive pay following public outrage over loosey-goosey compensation standards among the Wall Street firms bailed out by taxpayer dollars.

In a guest commentary posted at CNN.com, she offers these pearls:

I don’t think this is the answer, although it is an understandable reaction. It’s arbitrary: Why not $400,000 or $600,000? It’s incomplete. It only applies to institutions that will receive more government assistance going forward.