Obama taps Walmart Foundation head as budget chief
Source: NBC News
President Barack Obama will nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to direct the Office of Management and Budget, a senior administration official confirmed to NBC News on Sunday.
Burwell, 47, runs Walmart’s philanthropic arm and served as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration.
Obama will announce the nomination on Monday. Pending Senate confirmation, Burwell will take over for acting OMB director Jeffrey Zients.
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CountAllVotes
(22,215 posts)HMPH!!!!
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)
Tempest
(14,591 posts)She's not a Walton family member and has nothing to do with their retail side of the dynasty.
She's only been in the position at the foundation for less than 2 years. She also worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
And she has worked for a previous Democratic administration.
Orrex
(67,111 posts)Everything about Walmart, including everyone who's ever been associated with the company or has walked into a store, is evil and must be shunned.
Try to stay current, okay?
Tempest
(14,591 posts)
awake
(3,226 posts)Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart for 6 years. Wal-Mart paid her $18,000 each year she was on the board and $1,500 for every meeting she attended. She accumulated at least $100,000 in Wal-Mart stock.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/hillary-clinton-and-walma_b_93638.html
I am in no way defending Walmart, it is on my boycott list. However your response to this post sounds like something the Tea Party would post.
Everytime that I start to wonder if the [font color=red]sarcasm[/font] smiley should be retired, someone comes along and demonstrates that it's still necessary.
This afternoon I'll open the door for someone whom I love deeply, my wife. Same as I would for anyone of you, love or not.
dick and w and that crew of war criminals is the only people I've ever felt hate for and I'm damn near 65 years old. Says a lot for me, huh 
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)has done a lot of outstanding work on vaccination programs, they are very much involved in the "privatization" or public schools.
Putting corporate shills in charge of the budget is selling us out.
glinda
(14,807 posts)Gates and MonsterMonsanto.
Selatius
(20,441 posts)That fact alone is a big issue for a lot of progressives, especially progressives in labor unions.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)If we set the bar high enough, everyone who has had a management job in the last 20 to 30 years can be disqualified from any leadership position in government.
Ran a BP gas station 15 years ago? On the shit pile with you! Shift supervisor at Sam's Club? You oligarchy supporting slimebucket!
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)Wal-Mart and charter schools, together at last.
treestar
(82,383 posts)It is tiring to see all this demonizing of every person who has anything to do with a large company in any capacity at any time.
No one experienced in the field could take the job.
It's just more shit stirring up of hate.
madokie
(51,076 posts)some people are going to give the President hell no matter who he nominates. I say to President O you pick who you want to work with and not worry with the naysayers.
GOBAMA
Have I told you all lately how much I love my President, well its a whole fucking lot
wundermaus
(1,673 posts)F'ing Walmart?
MyTwoSense
(46 posts)Yet Michelle Obama was on the board of TreeHouse Foods, a company that was a supplier to Walmart. Now we're getting the Walmart Foundation's head appointed to a senior government position. And Michelle is using Walmart's food section as a backdrop for healthy eating. I'm confused...
KoKo
(84,711 posts)
Rewrite of everything.
Beacool
(30,518 posts)In this so called "Democratic" site the Clintons are trashed on a daily basis, sometimes using the same talking points I read at RW sites.
Pathetic...........
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Making donations for Tea Party rallies? Giving to the NRA? Funding 'charities' that promote forced prayer in schools? Aren't there any normal people he could have appointed?
MyTwoSense
(46 posts)but all I could find was stuff like hunger, women's empowerment, sustainability, and natural disasters. The NRA and forced prayer are probably under "special interests. See http://foundation.walmart.com/
Journeyman
(15,448 posts)Hunger Relief & Healthy Eating
In 2010, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation launched “Fighting Hunger Together” – a $2 billion cash and in-kind commitment through 2015 to help end hunger in America.
Sustainability
The Walmart Foundation concentrates on helping people understand how families and communities can live better by using fewer natural resources, as well as growing healthy food in a more sustainable way.
Women's Economic Empowerment
Our Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative will improve the lives of women around the world. We are supporting this initiative with more than $100 million in grants.
Career Opportunity
Living better means greater access to opportunity. We support initiatives that provide opportunties through job training and placement, and greater access to resources that help people become self-sufficient.
Special Interests
We partner with organizations that create opportunities for our nation's heroes and help our communities around the world overcome natural disasters.
http://foundation.walmart.com/our-focus
The Walmart Foundation offers scholarship programs that benefit qualified Walmart associates and their high school senior dependents. While our scholarships are not available to the public, the Walmart Foundation also provides opportunities for aspiring students by supporting organizations such as the American Indian College Fund, Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Thurgood Marshall College Fund and others.
http://foundation.walmart.com/our-focus/associate-scholarships
Of course, this all comes from the Walmart website (and they couldn't post it if it wasn't true, right?), but it gives an indication of the direction in which their public support runs.
However, I'm inclined to agree with you, AA -- surely there are equally qualified people without the taint of Walmart . . .
dflprincess
(29,341 posts)Journeyman
(15,448 posts)Hunger, that is. Money is what it's all about on Walton Mountain.
Javaman
(65,711 posts)I can bet you they don't give anymore than they have to.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Corporate welfare and subsidies is the norm since this country is owned and controlled by them.
Proletariatprincess
(718 posts)All those items listed on their website are either calculated for PR effect or for tax purposes or both. Walmart is a horrible company. Obama's appointments just demonstrate whose side he is on...no ours.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)I can tell you that Most of the money the corporation donates does NOT come from the profits of the corporation. It collects money from customers and employees, then funnels those funds collected to charities.
So, don't go thinking the profits from the corporation are spent on charity. Most of the money Wal-mart sends around to charities is from either their underpaid employees or their overcharged customers.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)Probably why he picked her.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)OBAMA is Past Three Dimensional Chess...he's into the CORPORATE VOODOO LAND!
HEY HEY!
Let's Gather Round and Have Some FUN!
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)I'm not really surprised by this. I don't know enough about Burwell to know what kind of work she will do, but the mere fact that she is so associated with a corporation like Walmart speaks volumes. The philanthropic arm... of Walmart. Hmm.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." ~Benito Mussolini
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glinda
(14,807 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)lives to making our country a better place for non-corporate citizens into positions of power within our government.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Sylvia Mathews Burwell (born 1965) is president of the Walmart Foundation having assumed that post in October, 2011, and was previously the president of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. While at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation her program focused on combating world poverty through agricultural development, financial services for the poor, and global libraries. She was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Foundation prior to its reorganization in 2006. She came to the Foundation in 2001, after serving as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., from 1998.
Biography
Born and raised in Hinton, West Virginia, into a Greek-American family[1] Mathews is the daughter of Dr. William Mathews, a retired optometrist and Hinton Mayor Cleo Mathews. She began her career while still in college, serving as an intern for West Virginia Congressman Nick Rahall, as governor's aide to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, and working on the Dukakis/Bentsen and the Clinton/Gore campaigns. Ms. Mathews served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998, and was Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin from 1995 to 1997. She also served as Staff Director for the National Economic Council from 1993 to 1995. Prior to that, she was an Associate at McKinsey & Company from 1990 through 1992. She is a Member of the University of Washington Medicine Board, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Aspen Strategy Group and the Nike Foundation Advisory Group.
In addition, Ms. Mathews is a Governing Council Member of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Ms. Mathews received a bachelor’s degree in government, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1987 and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Ms. Mathews has been a Director of MetLife and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company since January 2004. She often returns to the Mountain State and to WVU to speak, and recently a scholarship was established in her honor to support aspiring WVU political science students. In 2005 Mathews was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of The 50 Women to Watch -- 2005 world wide.[2] She was mentioned as a possible candidate to replace Patty Stonesifer, who had announced plans to step down as CEO of the Gates Foundation in 2008. [3] However, on May 12, 2008, the foundation announced that Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes would assume the CEO position. Reportedly, Mathews and the foundation's other presidents approved of Raikes' appointment. [4] Mathews was named Obama-Biden Transition Agency Review Lead for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. [5]
She married attorney Stephen Burwell in February 2007. They have one child. [6]
On March 3, 2013, it was announced that President Obama will nominate Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget.[1]
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)She had nothing to do with any business decision of the Walton family.
and was with Mike Dukakis, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates among others.
Mike Dukakis is one of the most liberal people in the world.
Amazing this six degrees of Kevin Bacon stuff.
w4rma
(31,700 posts)That support helped make the Waltons some of the wealthiest people on the planet at the expense of regular Americans' livelihoods.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)He has singlehandedly kept for a decade, Walmart out of Manhattan.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)was a prime mover and shaker pushing NAFTA, the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, and the evisceration of AFDC. The Gates and Walton foundations are the bucks behind the assault on public education and the advances of GMO agriculture. They have become so big and so powerful that their former employees are almost as ubiquitous in Washington as Wall Street's.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)If we don't push back starting NOW, we're sunk.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)The Foundation and the Corporation are completely different entities.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)when the foundation makes investments in a company and then funds that company's programs?
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)It was reasonably enough explained.
harkonen
(36 posts)Like the "hot bath?"
or are you ready to get out and stay out of it altogether? Take a giant step outside your mind...Va Pour Sa!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I actually remember seeing it in the theater when I was about 16. It's one of those strange movies that just sticks with you.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Every time you steal a person with a thinking cap from the opposition it's one less brain they have to work with.
On edit: It might also occur to you that she saw better opportunities and so applied for the job. I personally would much rather that a mover and shaker be working for the government than for a Walmart. Hell this could have even a bailout for her. I have had many jobs in the past that i wished i never applied for
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I'm glad to see someone chime in and give a different point of view.
Agony
(2,605 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)They really tie the room together
AllyCat
(18,842 posts)Good God, this is unbelievable.
he's becoming a fucking cliche
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Javaman
(65,711 posts)L0oniX
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OhioChick
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blackspade
(10,056 posts)More of the 1% in the Obama cabinet.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)Just to put another "friendly" face on economic destruction.
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)we need corporations to not be involved with Government, that dude is a shrill for for corporations.
mimi85
(1,805 posts)being just a bit hypocritical as we post our outrage on devices assembled in shitty Chinese factories?