she's all Walmarty

Or something about Walmart...maybe she shops there?

Unacceptable.

It's more like taking someone from the belly of the beast. Walmart accounting has done such wonders for communities.

What could possibly go wrong?

Point out and Budget or Accounting practice that has had any impact whatsoever.

the effort to privatize education. Busting teachers unions in order to funnel tax money to corporations/ charter schools. That probably figured into this choice as this administration is pro privatization of education.

Walton family foundation backs privatized education. Walmart foundation is different organization. But IMO that doesn't change anything. Both are spawned by Walmart corp.

Brave enough to fight for better pay and working conditions.......well, I guess you at least now know where you stand with this administration

is not Walmart

Do you think that the operational goals and management of the charitable foundation are the same as the operational goals and management of the chain of stores?

How does the foundation management set store employee hiring, human relations, and unionization policy?

set store employee hiring, human relations, and unionization policy?

The answer is that it doesn't.

like anti-unionization, low wages, and gender discrimination, just because she ran the Charitable Foundation - THAT'S weak.

The Walmart foundation deals primarily with hunger issues.

ooooh....scary!

Hunger and housing they would pay their workers a livable wage with health insurance. They don't. They would much rather run corporate PR with charities. Costs less. She is a bad pick because she comes from the sleaziest corporation in the country. Walmart.

and what Walmart cares about may not be what Burwell cares about.

If Walmart came to you and said "here's a fucking truck load of cash, give it away"

Would you tell them to keep it, or would you do your best to see it gets into the hands of the neediest?

I bet you'd tell Walmart t keep the money, right?

She was on THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of Walmart.

And yet, there are people here who supported her Presidential campaign in 2008.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, had a problem. He was under growing pressure from shareholders — and his wife, Helen — to appoint a woman to the company’s 15-member board of directors.

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Mrs. Clinton’s six-year tenure as a director of Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest company, remains a little known chapter in her closely scrutinized career. And it is little known for a reason. Mrs. Clinton rarely, if ever, discusses it, leaving her board membership out of her speeches and off her campaign Web site.

Fellow board members and company executives, who have not spoken publicly about her role at Wal-Mart, say Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program, despite being Wal-Mart’s only female director, the youngest and arguably the least experienced in business. On other topics, like Wal-Mart’s vehement anti-unionism, for example, she was largely silent, they said.

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and Obama-Biden. But...Aspen Strategy Group who has Dick Cheney as member Emeritus and Walmart.

Doesn't sound like she's much of an idealogue

Obama-Biden are selling us out to the financial interests. Clinton-Gore pushed NAFTA.

All I was saying was that she has associated herself with both sides, meaning she is likely not an ideologue.

Who is out there now that broke a specific law/reg that Obama/Biden refuses to prosecute? I really want
to know. Obama said that part of the problem is that it is difficult to find a specific way that the law was broken

Walmart has a group that eases their workers right into food stamps and Medicaid, because Walmart, of course, doesn't pay enough for most of their workers to afford food and medical care or insurance, and WalMart has already got a waiver from Obama so they don't have to provide insurance benefits.

And then yank Medicaid, so we can all share the pain of paying for the 1%ers tax breaks and the wars and the bailouts.
Who better qualified?

I am kinda leery of "making big things happen", y'all.

What's that got to do with the management of the Walmart Charitable Foundation?

that does not benefit WalMart.
But that's just my cynical little self.
In any event, done deal, of course, just sitting back and watching.
How I feel doesn't change reality for better or for worse.

So, yeah.

new demands? Shouldn't it depend on what you did in corporate America, or are you forever tainted by association? I know some liberals think only ideologues should be appointed to cabinet positions, but there's one problem with that, it's called CONFIRMATION. Ask Elizabeth Warren, and countless other Obama nominees how that worked out?

...what'd you expect a moderate 1980's Republican to do???

- I suppose we should thank him for being truthful. That's so rare in a politician these days......

K&R

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Ya like people working for minimum wage,and collecting welfare at the same time.

gave us NAFTA.

Good to see he's again showing his gigantic support for the working people of America.

Thanks Mr Prez, you're a real peach.

"...1990s that led to a budget surplus."

Yeah, that sucked.

I guess I'm missing something here.

and theirs is attached to a fine steak! COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (CCFR)!!!

I'll never sleep again.

I couldn't have said it better myself...

Really. Please explain it.

Really. Please explain it.

Well, I do.

It won't because:

Running the Walmart Foundation is entirely different than running Walmart
and even if the above were not true,
Having run the Walmart Foundation does not dictate who Burwell is
and even if the above were not true,
Burwell will not dictate what "the government" is.

and this particular one is part of a virulently anti-SS foundation.

Maybe you don't have a problem with that. I do, and I don't need to explain myself to your or anyone.

She's from the Walmart Foundation? What, was everyone at the CATO Institute too busy?

nearly identical in fact

Apparently not. Good for you for pointing it out, though.

What resumes are Democrats allowed to have?

Don't play right into freeper hands that we are all unemployed and unsuccessful.

Sid

Keep laughing as America goes downhill, because it's just so amusing to you huh?

held personally towards all people who've ever held a high level job of any kind.

Note the assumption that rich and successful Democrats can't possibly be honest ones. I guess that includes FDR and JKF. Or it should.

Like being qualified for such a job alone proves a person so evil.

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Leadership

R. Nicholas Burns, Director
Joseph Nye, Co-Chair
Brent Scowcroft, Co-Chair

Group Members

Madeleine Albright
Richard Armitage
Zoë Baird
Stephen Biegun
Robert Blackwill
Susan Collins
Richard Danzig
John Deutch
Richard A. Falkenrath
Peter Feaver
Dianne Feinstein
Stephen Friedman
Michael Green
Richard Haass
Chuck Hagel
Jane Harman
Arnold Kanter
Nicholas D. Kristof
Richard Lugar
Leo Mackay, Jr.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Sam Nunn
Thomas O'Gara
William J. Perry
Jack Reed
Mitchell Reiss
Condoleezza Rice
Carla Anne Robbins
David Sanger
Wendy Sherman
Marin Strmecki
Strobe Talbott
Fareed Zakaria
Philip D. Zelikow
Robert Zoellick


Emeritus Members

Michael Armacost
Judith H. Bello
Lael Brainard
Sam Brownback
Kurt M. Campbell
Ashton Carter
Dick Cheney
Eliot Cohen
Richard N. Cooper
Kenneth W. Dam
Thomas E. Donilon
Michele Flournoy
Stephen Friedman
Robert Gates
David Gergen
Al Gore
Margaret Hamburg
Jim Hoagland
Kay Bailey Hutchison
David C. Jones
Robert Kagan
David Lipton
Jan Lodal
Jane Holl Lute
Jessica Mathews
Judith Miller
Janne Nolan
William Owens
Susan Rice
Alice Rivlin
Dennis Ross
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Walter B. Slocombe
James B. Steinberg
John W. Warner
William Webster
Christopher Williams
Paul Wolfowitz
R. James Woolsey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Strategy_Group


The "let's bomb iran" crew.

and the bill gates "let's privatize global education & put everyone into debt" crew.

gad. what a horrorshow.


in fact, looking at her resume, it's pretty clear she's been groomed from day one; probably because of the sponsorship of the rockefeller family via jay rock in w. va.:

born 1965
1987: BA Harvard/Oxford (government/philosophy, politics & economics)
circa 1983-1987: intern for W Va Congressman Nick Raha
circa 1983-1991 aide to MA Gov Dukakis
circa 1987-1992: staffer on dukakis/bentsen presidential campaign.
1990-1992: McKinsey & Co. associate (Big 3 global consulting firm)
1992: Clinton Gore campaign; led his economic transition team
1993: staff director for national economic council
1995: Chief of staff for treasury sec robert rubin
1997: Clinton Deputy Chief of staff
1998-2001: Deputy Director OMB
2001-2011: Gates Foundation
2004- present: director MetLife
2008: Obama transition team; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Review Team Lead
2011-? Walmart foundation, President

Member of:

Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations
Aspen Strategy Group
Trilateral Commission
Advisory Group, Nike Foundation
Advisory Board, Next Generation Initiative
Advisory Board, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Professional Advisory Board, ALS Association Evergreen Chapter

Many ghouls on that list. Lots of bloody hands.

The same old Greedy Creators of So much that is wrong---IS Wrong! And No Accident.

Other Professional and Leadership Experience:

Member of:
Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations
Aspen Strategy Group
Trilateral Commission
Advisory Group, Nike Foundation
Advisory Board, Next Generation Initiative
Advisory Board, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Professional Advisory Board, ALS Association Evergreen Chapter

https://www.metlife.com/about/corporate-profile/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/index.html

what could be better experience?

Does she advise on policy, or on organizational issues? Do we know?

This is very similar to accusations thrown against her WalMart Foundation work.

ergo she's a pete peterson advisor.

or should I say, at the sheer AUDACITY of HOAX.

I voted for the Big O, but he is a corporate centrist who calibrates himself every morning, or as he described himself, a 1980s Republican.

Oh, wait. Nevermind . I hate it when reality trumps my prejudices.

Reality Based Community prejudice is not prejudice, its just common sense!

nt.

Can we slap some Wal-Mart smiley faces on the front and back? Would look good on the front of an attack sub. Just saying at discount prices, I know she is not the master planner for the Walton's Evil Empire. But still hell why not see if she can work us out a deal on tanks and aircraft parts. A happy discount with a happy face.

Welcome to Wal-Mart Industrial Complex.

My main concern is when oh when will Ronald McDonald get his due? The USS Ronald McDonald serves billions of hamburgers around the world...

I'm not sure what to think on this one. I'm not inclined to trust anyone involved in any sort of upper management associated with Walmart, even if it is the philanthropic arm. Still, she's certainly qualified for the position she's been nominated for. I just can't help but suspect it's more business as usual for Washington. Knowing the right people, having the right corporate and financial connections... being a member of the "proper class", for our dear nobility.

Eh. It's not just Walmart that's the issue anyhow, I can't think of any politician that I actually trust, including the President. In a contest of two evils, the democrats get my vote... but they are basically as corporate friendly as the republicans. I wonder how long it will be before we nominate former Walmart executives (of the *corporate* arm) to such positions.

What difference does it really make? Did anyone honestly expect to see a real progressive, or working class American nominated for this position? I sure didn't.

I don't see any reason one cannot be appointed.

To see a real progressive nominated for such a position of financial stewardship, so to speak. I just don't think it's going to happen. With a few exceptions like (perhaps) Elizabeth Warren, I don't see many people in office pushing for progressive financial or tax policies. I don't see much support for unions, the working class, or what few decent public institutions (such as libraries) we still have. I'm of the opinion, at least generally speaking, that our politicians are long since bought and paid for by their favorite corporations - I don't think that the majority of them are interested in moving things forward for the working class.

charitable organizations? Maybe she is an evil corporatist. Or maybe she is a person that used the organizations to bring about positive social change.