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January 2009 
Do we live in a Wal-Mart world?
Posted on Mar 30th, 2008
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Allison
Allison
Nothing has bothered me more than the most recent story of the inhuman, and truly evil acts of Wal-Mart. I am sure everyone has heard this horror story by now, but just in case you haven't let me share it with you.
Eight years ago, 52 year old Debbie Shank, was in a traffic accident that left her with extreme brain damage. The trucking company responsible awarded her $1,000,000. After legal fees and what not, $417,000 was put into a trust fund for her care. She needs round the clock care and now lives in an assisted living center.
Because of a despicable claus in her insurance policy from her former employeer wal-mart, wal-mart was able to sue her for $470,000 which they had paid for her medical bills through the insurance policy at the time of her accident. And because of the claus in her policy, Wal-Mart won.
This woman's dear husband is working two jobs and actually had to legally divorce his wife so they could receive more medicare assistance. I find it important to note that Wal-Mart's profits last year were $11 billion.
This is truly the worst story i have heard in sometime. How is there not a rational, humane person at Wal-Mart that has stepped in to stop this?
The story actually gets harder to bare. Just one week after the settlement in the case, the Shank's 18 year old son, a soldier, was killed in Iraq. And despite attending her son's funeral due to her brain injury Debbie asks everyday how her son is doing, and everyday as they tell her he has died, she cries as if hearing the news for the first time.
I don't want to live in a Wal-Mart world.
Here is the link to a recent article on CNN
Eight years ago, 52 year old Debbie Shank, was in a traffic accident that left her with extreme brain damage. The trucking company responsible awarded her $1,000,000. After legal fees and what not, $417,000 was put into a trust fund for her care. She needs round the clock care and now lives in an assisted living center.
Because of a despicable claus in her insurance policy from her former employeer wal-mart, wal-mart was able to sue her for $470,000 which they had paid for her medical bills through the insurance policy at the time of her accident. And because of the claus in her policy, Wal-Mart won.
This woman's dear husband is working two jobs and actually had to legally divorce his wife so they could receive more medicare assistance. I find it important to note that Wal-Mart's profits last year were $11 billion.
This is truly the worst story i have heard in sometime. How is there not a rational, humane person at Wal-Mart that has stepped in to stop this?
The story actually gets harder to bare. Just one week after the settlement in the case, the Shank's 18 year old son, a soldier, was killed in Iraq. And despite attending her son's funeral due to her brain injury Debbie asks everyday how her son is doing, and everyday as they tell her he has died, she cries as if hearing the news for the first time.
I don't want to live in a Wal-Mart world.
Here is the link to a recent article on CNN
"WAL MART": What A "SCHMUCK"
Access: Public
Argh!!!!
I don't shop at Wal-Mart for many reasons (see Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Prices for a few hundred good reasons that don't even begin to scratch the surface of the atrocities this corporation, with our help, unleashes on the world).
One day I realized I needed a new kitchen trash can. It took me forever to be able to find in any other store what Wal-mart has an entire aisle full of. It was the wrong time of year for Target to have them. K-mart didn't have them. Ace hardware only had big cans. I finally found one at Sears. One.
It kind of freaked me out that I could not find something as simple as a plastic garbage can. No one else carries them because they can't compete with Wal-mart.
What are we doing???