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Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to direct the Office of Management and Budget

Silvia,

... moving from Walmart Foundation to OMB, most likely not as much money (in OMB), but Thanks for your service.

FlatIron...

Nietzsche said, Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Don't be dogMaTic, focus on what works. That's pragmatism, supposedly one of the core principles of conservatives. But many of you conservatives have forgotten about pragmatism, you guys are too dogMatic. By sticking to your dogma in the name of principled opposition, you conservatives have forgot about your core principle of pragmatism.

I think this qualifies as a h0lY sh!t moment!

Obama has found someone who will give him the numbers he wants and spin the facts supporting them.

Piggy sooner see your comment on this news article

The United States said on Sunday it would give Egypt $250 million in budget aid after Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi promised to take the painful economic reforms needed to secure an IMF loan.

Remember all the jobs we are losing because of the sequestration

Apparently you couldn't find this link, so here it is

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/03/17170433-us-offers-egypt-budget-aid-after-mursi-assurance-on-economic-reforms?lite

Reply to #1.6

Sequestration will lead to losses of about 750,000 jobs. I thought Boehner promised to create jobs when he became the Speaker 2011. But obviously, Boehner's refusal to work out a compromise with the President on the sequester has led to more job losses. Ironic?

Such hypocrisy- one minute you oppose Wal Mart but since Barry made the appointment it must be ok.

By the way, Boehner nor the gov't as a whole creates any jobs. It's not up to him to do anything but his job and if that means disagreeing with the dems lack of strategy to avoid this sequester then that's not a gop problem. Typically, you weak minded libs run into to play the blame game- such a shame you're always making up excuses for your party's own shortcomings which is displayed continually.

KKKwilson

As usual, nothing but worthless BS from you. Man, you always fail to surprise me. We keep lowering the bar for you and yet you still trip over it. Well KKK, at least you're living down to your reputation.

HELP...

I am under siege by rwnjs. Why ... all of sudden ... have these nuts come out of nowhere and swarm here?

Am sure she will be great - bringing her experience of spending other people's money on charity and theoretical projects. Her real business experience is nil. Another liberal spender to fit in with the Obama Regium.

Hey, RAW-316448

...she is a liberal spender? U R kidding, right?

Philanthropy and charities are conservatives' magic bullet in solving the nation's ills. When the government asks for more taxes, corporations say they have donated to charities. When the government wants to help the country, corporations say they have already solved the problems with charities.

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By hiring her, the President is moving further to the right.

You gotta be kidding right? You blindly support this treasonous Walmart POS just because Obama picked her? How about seeing the bigger picture as to how this is going to destroy the economy even more as this bich continues to do Walmart's bidding in the form of helping them skirt laws and reap the rewards of other forms of upward wealth distribution now that she is in a position to do so!

I can't believe this appointment. WalMart is the biggest buyer from the biggest violator of human rights in the world. I'm sure her allegiance will continue to be for WalMart and will do nothing to bring back manufacturing to the US. I suppose since Chinia and the Far East area has taken over most of the world manufacturing using slave labor she might show us how we can do the same and bring some jobs back. Ha! It seems that most all appointments by this administration have been to incompetents. Look at Homeland Security as most other agencies. A sad day. I am an Independent and belong to neither party and only hope we someday can elect people that care about the US.

Any liberal who didn't hate Walmart as an evil corporation before praising this selection by Owebama, raise your hand.

Any liberal who wouldn't have gone nuts on George Bush for being in bed with the evil corporationns had he made this selection, raise your hand.

No hands raised - just as I figured. That's ok - it's only one more example of the liberal hypocrisy. I'm starting to think more and more that a good laugh is all you're good for.

I raised my hand...for the first part of your commnt#1.15, Realist17.

But can I still be a liberal hypo? Hypo is short for hypocrite.

Sequestration will lead to losses of about 750,000 jobs

Wrong!!! So much to cover. It's difficult to cover so much stupidity.

1. According to smart Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the sequestration will lead to 170 million job losses. Poor woman doesn't even realize how many people are actually employed.

2. Just read an AP article stating the US is giving Egypt (the country in which our embassy was attacked) $250 million taxpayer dollars. Let's see, $60 million to Syrian rebels and now $250 million to the backstabbers in Egypt.

3. Guess the Obama admin. is doing the "I scratch your back if you scratch mine" game. I was wondering why Walmart backed Obama in the campaign. It's clear now.

It's too bad Walmart is more than happy to hand money to anyone but their employees.

It should be noted that Burwell also worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Burwell is administering a charitable foundation, not outsourcing jobs. However, I would have hesitated to take any job from Walmart. I do believe they are a soulless corporation, using the taxpayers to subsidize their underpaid labor force. So I do have questions about why someone with choices would elect to work for them in any capacity.

However, just because you have been employed by Walmart, doesn't mean that you will be operating as a shill for them in your position with the OMB. She is clearly knowledgable, has a record as someone who does care about people.

I suspect she will be good at her new job. And let's be realistic, the right wingers would disapprove of Jesus Christ if Obama nominated him for a position in this administration, so there is little hope that they will greet any name with joy. It's a knee jerk kind of thing. Rather than examining her background and abilities, they automatically assume she is no good just because Obama has put her name forward. They can't help it.

Pigotry:

Hey, RAW-316448

...she is a liberal spender? U R kidding, right?

She is a liberal Democrat. Wasting other people's money is what they do and not very well. Do I hear $20 Trillion????

Philanthropy and charities are conservatives' magic bullet in solving the nation's ills. When the government asks for more taxes, corporations say they have donated to charities. When the government wants to help the country, corporations say they have already solved the problems with charities.

What does that have to do with her abilities?

By hiring her, the President is moving further to the right.

How funny and so stupid...

Jo Ann-666954:

Sequestration will lead to losses of about 750,000 jobs

Wrong!!! So much to cover. It's difficult to cover so much stupidity.

So true!

1. According to smart Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the sequestration will lead to 170 million job losses. Poor woman doesn't even realize how many people are actually employed.

Darn that G W Bush - he did it again...

2. Just read an AP article stating the US is giving Egypt (the country in which our embassy was attacked) $250 million taxpayer dollars. Let's see, $60 million to Syrian rebels and now $250 million to the backstabbers in Egypt.

That is only a down paymnent. The total is $400 Million.

Why does anyone even bother to reply to Pigotry? She has to be the most delusion F U C Ked up person on the entire internet. She sits and prays that the her terrorist buddy OBAMA will collapse the entire USA!

Obama had to go to the Corporate sector to get this appointee. They know how to fudge the numbers really well.

Besides, all the POS left overs from former administrations are already engaged in furthering the ruin of this country. (Aw, where is Larry Summers or Alan Greenspan when you need them?)

After all, why go to one of the brilliant minds of economics only to have them embarrass you when they tell you how it REALLY is.

Because she OINKS loudly. Oink enough and people will believe it. She learned that from Obama.

Obama suggested sequestration. He previously said he was focusing on jobs. I guess he was focusing on getting rid of jobs.

I wonder if she can do math as well as Lew, and claim Obama's budget won't add to the deficit. How much did Walmart donate to the Obama campaign? It costs a half million to get an audience with Obama, so how much does it cost to get an appointment to budget chief?

"record of fighting for working Americans"

Really at Wal-Mart?

In the past, Obama was far more to the right behind the scenes than most think, he did all kinds of things to benefit corporations in sectors you usually think of as Republican... he did troop surges, expanded drone programs dramatically, didn't reign in crazy boondoggle defense spending like the Trillion dollar F-35 and the LCS, both of which don't actually work, did nothing to close the money gushing uselessly in the WOT and aid to the Paks and Iraqis, did nothing on gun control, jobs are still in the crapper..... in fact, he basically did almost nothing for his lefty constituents... much less the rest of us

Obama has been on the defensive his entire Presidency, outside of the Affordable Care Act he hasn't been able to lead to a consensus on anything.... granted he has had some real lunatic teabaggers to deal with... but the President is supposed to lead and he doesn't get a pass, that's just the way it is if you want the job

What has he really been doing besides selling out to corp America? looking for a critical national issue to distract everyone from the reality that NOTHING will get done in his second term. This isn't a new problem... everyone basically knew if he got a second term, the right would just run the clock out on him... so he started latching onto issues trying to make one catch fire and take over the national mindset... Trayvon Martin didn't explode enough, gun control is somewhat doing it, but he's already lost that fight and before you know it there will be another disaster that will get way over blown into a Presidential issue so he can seem busy.

Dropping party / right /left for a minute... I'm an American who, like all of you, has been victimized by our elected leaders on both sides.... Congressmen thinking 'I don't care what happens to America, I'm not going to work with Obama' is clearly unconscionable.... and the President whining to the people that he can't get his job done / dog ate his homework is ridiculous and getting very old.... meanwhile our money is flying out the doors at an unbelievable rate.

We are on the verge of having our entire government, at one of the most dangerous and critical times in our history, take an ENTIRE 8 YEARS OFF of work to play games with each other while we bleed money non stop.... think about that.

Pigatory, that's Mutinational Corruption Coorperation in my view. I would rather pay a little more and get something made with some quality to that I can use a lot longer made right here in the USA. People locked in fire hazardous Factories making shirt fo 15 Cents and hour. Walmart says it has a company that checks to see that this doesn't happen, Poppycock!!! That is just Smoke and Mirrors for the American Public. Have you heard that they are changing Companies that do this type of work/service for them? Honestly I haven't.

Business as usual , the hypocrisy of the liberals and their war against evil corporations. For liberals evil corporations are the ones that do not give them money, libertads criticise Kocks for their contribution to Republicans, mocking about "corporation are people" but they have no problem when this administration, start a new PAC to get money from corporations to support Obama's agenda. The cynicism and hypocrisy from libertads are been exposed everywhere.

And another myth is created today. "The official stressed Burwell’s history as a bipartisan problem solver who helped craft the budget surpluses seen in the 1990s." The surplus was a direct result of the Contract with America. Clinton helped because he was not the ideologue that Obama is. Clinton, more than any President in my lifetime, was in love with the idea of being President and the privileges that brought. I never liked the guy and thought he was a used car salesman at Honest Injun's Used Car Lot from the moment I saw him. But, the fact is that he was more favorable to the repubs than W ever was. If Clinton had been Obama, we'd be $50 trillion in debt now.

The reality is that the budget surplus was the work of Newt & Co. The Welfare Reform Act did more for America than anything since then. I realize the libs don't believe that, but it is the truth. The thing about libs and conservs is that they approach things from different angles. Libs look at government programs and think how wonderful it is that so many people are being helped by government, and therefor we are successful. Conservs look at how many people don't need government programs and therefor we are successful. That explains why libs love Obama. We have more people dependent on government than ever before and they think that is great that we are helping so many people.

This should be an easy job considering we haven't had a budget in over 4 years.

So pigotry... based on your elation over this pick and looking at your comments we can assume that the capitalist loving, NON-UNION, ACA EXCLUDED Walmart is a good thing - in fact you said go with what works...

But of coarse you show elation over everything this President does - I imagine he picks his nose on occasion, I bet he does it better then GW Bush ever could.

It's wonderful that so many white people have found employment in the Obama administration.

And, let's give a cheer to Walmart, a simply lovely corporation who treats its employees right.

The Obama Economy Logic

A New Study shows - 45% of recent college graduates - are living at home - with their parents - PATHETIC!

Worst President in US History = Barack Obama

Professor "NO CLUE" to the rescue

This is very sad and disturbing folks - very sad

Does this mean that even more money will be exported to China, along with more jobs ?

The United States said on Sunday it would give Egypt $250 million in budget aid after Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi promised to take the painful economic reforms needed to secure an IMF loan.

You mean like the girl power in Egypt

Well, again, foreign aid is only 1% of the federal budget...not much ...but it buys some good will around the world. And with such foreign aid, US corporations have an inside track to get lucrative operations there.

Egypt is one of the most important allies in the Middle East, having helped stabilize the notoriously unstable part of the world.

Usually there is bipartisan consensus in foreign policy.

You sound sexist piggy.....

What, a company that doesn't support a union? Your a hypocrite too...

King Richard III

I thought you were dead for centuries. Welcome back ... at least in the news.

I am not going to repeat myself in answering you. You can see my reply to your #2.3 in my comment #1.3

One it shouldn't matter that she is a woman. I applaud Obama for hiring someone from such a successful corporation as Walmart. I hope she does well and stands by her own convictions. I am not likely to agree with her as I am conservative and she most likely will be liberal. (just because she is the presidents choice. nothing to do with being a woman) Still I wish her luck in her post.

Pigotry: "I am not going to repeat myself..." Thank God !! We have heard enough from you already.

Obama has Wall Street executives, lobbyists, and big greedy corporations running our government. Aren't liberals constantly claiming those are the exact people that run the Republican party? The Democrats really are the party of hypocrites.

Harvard Grads - the smartest stupid people you'll ever meet.

What's actually going on, ragequitter, is that a handful of corporations run the government.

No one on capital hill writes their own bills - lobbiests write them. And that's a fact too... No congressman has written their own bill since the 70s.

Sylvia Burwell is not a closet lib (whatever that means) - she's someone who gets ahead in life.

Are you starting to see how this game is played? We haven't been a democracy since the 1920s.

But... wait... how does this prove that Obama is a Marxist Socialist Commie Libtard Dictator? Help me out here.

Septic, It just proves we have a Croney Corporate Fasicist state. Hillary joined the Walmart board in the last year of ole Sam. She and Bill were instrumental in turnin around Walmart from buyin American to bein the Red Chinese Tradin Post. Got to love it. LOL!

Wonder what Postion he is going to offer to the ex governor of Washington State????

Mac, how were they instrumental? Do you have any facts? Links? Quotes? Or just a good rant?

Liberals want everyone to believe that only Republicans are puppets of big greedy corporations, and here we have another example of the same story on Democrat side of the isle.

Ragequitter:

I just can't resist, so here goes:

Must have been a closet lib all her life to affiliate with comrade obama.

Yes, that ol' Comrade Obama. Damn him!

• Three Chiefs of Staff from Wall Street Banks
• Publicly Defending & Praising Wall Street Predators as "Savvy Businessmen"
• Obama's DOJ: Not enough evidence to prosecute anyone on Wall Street
• Publicly Called for Renewing Bush's Patriot Act
• Publicly Stated During Debates: "Corporate Taxes Are Too High"
• Publicly Stated his Healthcare "Reform" is the same as Romney's (aka Conservative Heritage Foundation Policy from the 90's)
• Pushed through more Free Trade Job Offshoring (Panama, Columbia, S. Korea)
• Pushing through MORE Free Trade via Trans Pacific Partnership
• Appointed a Monsanto Executive / Lobbyist to the FDA
• Prosecuted more whistleblowers than Bush
• Bernanke, Summers, Geithner, Holder
• Pushing through the Keystone Pipeline
• Shielded BP, allowing them carte blanc in the Gulf
• Pushed through more drilling licenses for big oil

Yeah. That Obama. Such a Communist, eh? So vastly different from Bush, eh?

You know why America continues to go down the drain? Because too many of its citizens are fed a diet of ignorance and think they're having an epiphany.

Tag, just google it, ya know, the search engine in cahoots with the NSA. Numerous articles stating she was on the Walmart board for 6 years. If ya want to go further ya can see how many connections Clinton/Gore had with the Red Chinese and how he signed NAFTA. Both parties work for da BANKSTERS. Just see who got da bailouts and who got richer in the last 5 years. LOL!

Or that Walmart pays min. wages & employee more part time the full time employees. Bet the Unions aren't liking this one.

they haven't forgotten, its only ok if Barry does it. Gotta love the lib mentality or lack thereof.

Nietzsche said, Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Don't stick to your dogma, please focus on what works. Be pragmatic - one of the core conservative principles. But many of you are too dogmatic, having forgotten about pragmatism. By sticking to your dogma in the name of principled opposition, you conservatives have forgot about pragmatism - one of your core principle of conservatism.

The Walmart Family members are BIG Republican donors. I have no idea what that implies but it is just a fact.

So Pigotry has learned her economics and politics from Nietzche. Draco too ?? Great sources !!

Well, this kinda proves what many people have been saying all along, if it weren't for the Evangelical Christians messing up the GOP with their politics of hate for women, homosexuals, and trans-gender people, Obama would be a moderate Republican (like Eisenhower)

that and if the President weren't black :-)

Wow just plain stupid but I'll give it to you - you know how to spin those talking points you get in return for your welfare freebies from the taxpayer!

So what you are saying is that we will all be working at Walmart?

Nothing to do with Obama haters. The "philanthropic arm" was/is funded by money from Walmart and good ole Sam Walton-a Republican capitalist of the first order.

Let's not confuse people and corporations. (somehow that sounds familiar) people make decisions for themselves, corporations make decisions for the bottom line. du Pont (Charles maybe?) is known for having had environmental sensibilities and saying things about not harming the earth. the corporation bearing his name has done as much harm as any.

No, the key here is that Obama has always been a Centrist Corporatist at the beck and call of Wall Street. That's kind of the definition of a modern Chicago Democrat.

Plenty of money for that 'philanthropic arm' when you don't pay your workers a livable wage or give 'em health insurance (and pass that on to taxpayers!)

Try the veal. It's delicious.

Ah how cute a Barry lapdog yipping on the msg board.

Walmart has done more for public education in NWA than any other entity in history of the state. Also major donations to overall education through Crystal Bridges museum and University of Arkansas. Northwest Arkansas would be nonexistent and had it not been for Walmart and the Walton family. You know those destroyers only developed and funded entire communities that no one else bothered to consider. Wouldn't want any facts to get in the way of your blind hatred and total lack of an open mind though. It's good to be "Progressive" and liberal without actually having to be bothered with those annoying live and let live type philosophies.

THAT's good jk Walmart should be doing something good with the money that they have been robbing the public and their employees for years.

She is a charity leader, not a business leader. She was inked to be able to preach the liberal gifting programs and sell them as a good business decision. She is not a corporate leader as promoted. She will definitely work to maximize spend.

Actually they haven't forced anyone to do anything. Free will allows people to choose where they shop, where they work and whom they work for. Also Walmart actually pays people to work for them and hires many elderly and disabled just to stand in front of a store and say hello. No other company bothers doing that, but again let's not bother with facts, let's just go on blind emotional hatred. And sorry that being a stock boy or a cashier doesn't pay enough to satisfy you but those should never be jobs that someone views as anything other than a stepping stone. If you think those jobs should be able to support a family then I don't know what type of society, other than some unrealistic Utopia, could exist under those circumstances.

My wife works at walmart. We get a 10% discount on most things. She keeps health insurance on us all through walmart. She also has profit sharing that has let her take vacation plus vacation pay. Sure she could probably find something that pays better. But she enjoys working with the people that she works with and the customers that she has. But the truth is this woman started with walmart in 2012. She had nothing to do with where walmart is in the world.

Great. Now our country is going to run like Walmart. Lord help us all. Welfare recipents will be treated great and the rest of us will have to wait on them, just like we do at Walmart. What is this country coming to. It does not take a genius ti realize we need to stop spending and maybe our goverment should pay their own health care and have to work 25 years in order to retire with a pension instead of a two year term and set for life. We need not to send money to Serbia and take care of home. WOW doesn't that make sense.

Yes, this is pig's entire life -to wait with baited breath for any opportunity to spew propaganda nonsense about the party of spend spend spend.

Pig, Pest and Pro, put the pig on ignore so long ago I can't remember. And I'm as liberal, if not more so, than whoever he/she/it is.

"Explain how Walmart isn't the evil empire"?

Really?

Who ever said it wasn't?

Is it so hard to grasp the idea that someone doing charitable work with funding from any source must make money work as hard as possible, and has no hand in the policies by which that money is made?

Walmart desperately needs a charitable arm, just as utilities, oil companies, Monsanto, DuPont, and other mercenaries in the American economy need charities, and for the same reasons.

It may be mere whitewash on something which will always be uglier than a mud fence covered with toads, but it's an effort to justify the means by making at least some of their ill-gotten gains do good- and even if it's only 1 or 2 percent (or less) of their net, it's still a lot of money to those in desperate need.

Walmart is an evil empire which promotes and supports real, honest-to-god, kids-crushed-under-tanks socialism by selling more Chinese goods than any other single retailer in the United States- so anyone who shops at Walmart is, in their own terms, a pinko who supports socialism.

Regardless of their employment with Walmart, this person also worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation- and had the same job- which involves finding the most leveraged application for the money available.

You're assuming that those on the left- or moderates like myself- are hindered by the same absolutism that blinds so many fanatics on the right.

If there's any hypocrisy involved, it's in assuming those like me believe anyone associated with or working for anyone like the Walton family is irremediably evil.

Most of us understand that responsibility for evil lies with those in charge, and can often be ameliorated or to some degree nullified by those beneath them.

Just because you can spell the word Socialist does mean you know what it is.

If you don't come with 7 figures nobody gives a damned about what you think, do or support.

The strings on this puppet are not visible but I am sure they are there.

And you don't know what a Communist is

tracy, he has no strings but he sure grabbed a handful of Boehners..

I'm surprised at You Trolls (NOT!). She is a person that just crunches numbers, a Bean Counter, an Accountant with a High Degree. She also has something you don't, People Skills. Since you only have a GED you probably don't have any idea of what a Degree is. Unlike you she has done more than sling buns at Micky Ds.

Let me guess, Northern Irish. You've seen history, and don't want to see it repeated here.

Too bad some Americans, think emulating the British empire , is absolutely great policy.

Love It,

I am quite willing to concede that I may be wrong in my interpretation of your statements on Socialism. However, my understanding of Socialism (and/or the Socialists therein) is that Socialism is an economic system wherein the government owns/controls the business enterprise and the distribution of any proceeds therefrom.

Capitalism, on the other hand, is an economic system wherein the (an) individual owns/controls the business enterprise with a focus on maximizing the profits of said enterprise, and, therefore, enriching the owner(s)/shareholder(s) through the distribution of profits from said enterprise.

Using the definitions above, I am unable to perceive that Buffet and Gates are Socialists. However, I would agree that both of these men are philanthropists of the highest order. In fact, I would challenge anyone to name a person (or persons) in a Socialistic society who has been so generous in working to benefit mankind of all colors, creeds, countries, etc.

These people are not socialist. They are Capitalist first, foremost, lastly and always. The only reason they give away money, to a point, is so they get that much Tax break. I do charitable things of donations of money and items for a tax wrrite off every year. I can usually do a couple or so hundred but these guys can do 2-3 million and not feel the loss of :pocket change".

Remember that 3 milliom Tax error on Romneys Part? He got that back this year as one has three years to correct an error on something like that.

Plapen, what's it called when you screw the man that was your partner in developing the home computer like Gates did? I guess that one could say that inside every capitalist is a little back stabber.

LOVE IT - obviously you understand socialism first hand. You can tell who is a 3rd generation and beyond American by their response and misunderstanding of what socialism really is, as opposed to a thin textbook definition they are taught to recite.

Dave, I don't usually look at stuff like this but it is a fact and has been for yeaars now that Money, is in part, running Washington. Look up New World Order (NWO). It will surprise you on when and how long it has been going on. As for the report on what has been done, it is like he said PROPOSALS, there is nothing that can be done with a propesal except talk. It is a long way from becoming aa Bill and a Bill has a long arduous trail before becoming a Law. I don't see nothing wrong with closing loopholes on gun sales to keep guns from getting to where they shouldn't be. Everybody talks the words Gun Control, Ultimately people are not looking at the definition of gun control. To me Gun Control is in the hands/responcibility of the owner. Like driving a car, the responcibility of the operation is in the hands of the driver not the passenger.

Either you are being sarcastic or not up to date on just how much money Bernanke has been printing since 2008. He didn't get the moniker "Helicopter Ben" for nothing. You should check out how much money has been printed and funneled to European banks since Sept 2012 and that will really make your head spin.

Oh, intercourse Walmart....

She certainly has had a lot of impressive titles, but what did she do?? What are her accomplishments?

Her jobs and their titles all are surrounded with wealthy donors. Wealthy donors make what they want to happen...happen. What has she done herself to promote jobs for the working people.