You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

They have two sons. According to final reports Whitman spent $144 million from her own personal funds. The comment came in connection with the disclosure that her campaign had paid far above market rates for advertising on a conservative political blog.

3 billion in 2010 Meg Whitman spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178. Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4 1956) is an American business executive. In the 1990s Meg Whitman served as an executive for DreamWorks Procter & Gamble and Hasbro.