FUCK YOU WALMART Part Two

Again, Just cut and paste, otherwise I will sink into nothing more then a ranting lunatic.

From http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/
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I wonder if Hillary still cuts any ice with Wal-Mart’s board of directors?

Yeah, I’m in the zone and am chomping at the bit to type up what little of my novel I had time to write at work today but then I came across this story and was reminded once again that virtually everything in the world is more important than my rock-n-roll novel.

Debbie Shank is a sterling example.

In my three plus years as a political/social blogger, I’ve read and have written about some incredibly outrageous stories that had tempted me to try to alter my DNA so I could no longer be considered human even at the genetic level. Because what Wal-Mart is doing to this family, one that seems to attract tragedy like a magnet attracts iron filings, makes me ashamed to be a terrestrial human.

I’ll give you the abstracts:

Debbie Shank, former Wal-Mart employee, was hit by a semi eight years ago. To this day, she has no short term memory, is incapacitated and will live in a nursing home for the rest of her life. Her husband, just recovering from prostate cancer, has to work two jobs to pay for her medical costs.

Or, should I say her ex-husband, because he divorced her just so she could get more disability benefits.

When Debbie was almost killed by that semi, Wal-Mart’s health insurance paid the medical bills promptly. However, what they didn’t go out of their way to tell Debbie when she first signed on for that coverage was that the company (a self-insured entity, in case you’ve yet to come to that conclusion) reserves the right to recoup all the medical bill money if they receive a settlement, which in this case was $417,000.

When Wal-Mart got wind of it, they immediately sued the Shanks for that amount plus $51,739, making nearly $470,000 in all. The trust fund opened for Debbie now contains roughly $277,000, far short of the money Wal-Mart, which pulled down $90,000,000,000 (that’s ninety billion) in retail sales in their last quarter alone, is trying to squeeze out of them. In fact, Wikinvest states that Wal-Mart’s annual revenue, based on the 2008 fiscal year, would place it in the world’s top 25 nations’ GDP.

If Mr. Shank were to somehow magically pull the other $200,000 out of his ass, not only would the family be broke and unable to pay Debbie’s medical expenses, their 17 year-old son wouldn’t be able to go to college.

Oh, and a year and a half ago their 18 year-old son Jeremy was killed serving in Iraq.

But the law is the law, Wal-Mart’s flaks keep saying, so that means we can and should completely fuck over this tragic family.

Here’s an article from the St. Louis Dispatch. I’ll save you the time in case you’re pressed for it: The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the family’s appeal to overturn the lower court’s decision. A week ago, the right wing, pro-corporation Supreme Court refused to even hear the case without deigning to give an explanation.

If you shop at Wal-Mart, stop. Stop now. Stop bloating these already bloated Bentonville fucks and running buddies of Hillary Clinton and email them, call them, voicemail then, fax them and otherwise tell them why you will no longer shop there. It’ll mean supporting your local economy and merchants but oh well, sacrifices will have to be made. If you’re hurting as much as the Shanks, which is impossible for me to imagine, then compromise and shop at K-Mart.

It’s not very often that even Wal-Mart makes me madder than the GOP (although there may not be a difference) but do not let them maintain this sickeningly cloying and incredibly dishonest PR campaign that bills them as a family-oriented company. Let them know you’re onto them, let them know that you know about what they’re doing to the Shanks and let them know why they’re losing your business (Why stop at costing them $470,000?).

(I can’t find an embed code for this video (the only one on Youtube is for some reason unavailable) but this link will take you to the original CNN.com video.)