Wal-Mart Drops Shank Family’s Debt

Thank God for public pressure.

This is a great day for the little guy. I’m glad that Wal-Mart decided to do the right thing for this family.

I just read the letter from the Shank’s son about the constant high costs of keeping Deborah in a nursing home.  Is there a website or would walmartwatch.com set up one for people who’d like to help with a donation?

I knew Walmart couldn’t take the pressure.  All of the people including myself who were refusing to spend one dime in their business because of their greed are the real heroes in this story. Without your comments, letters, phone calls and public outrage Walmart would still be beating up the
“little guy”. 

I am soooooooooooooooooo happy for the Shank family.  To not have this financial pressure must be overwelming.  Please everyone keep donating money to the Shank family.  That money will not last long.  Let’s start to help this country one family at a time.

Great Job Everyone!!!!!  I am so proud of everyone who helped.

God bless everyone.

I am a former Wal-Mart distribution employee who has had a similar experience. In 1998 my wife was hit head on by a man who had passes out for medical reasons and crossed center line on a two lane road. My wife still is slightly disabled from this accident, enough to qualify for lifetime SSDI without even trying. We got a lawyer and sued the other drivers car insurance and family for well in excess of $50,000 dollars in medical costs, lost wages etc.. In 2001 after almost 4 years of dispositions, abritration etc. the car insurance of the other driver settled for about $5000 dollars after attorney fees.
Within a month or two Wal-Mart started calling me about reimbursment of monies paid out in subrogation by Blue Cross/Blue shield and demanded the entire amount of this meager settlement. Wal-Mart then pulled back insurance payments and leins were put on my house, took me 5 years to pay back the debts once paid by my medical insurance plan.
I left Wal-Mart in 2007 after 15 years of service. The only good thing I can say about them is they maximize profits at the expense of their associates, benefitting most of the upper echelon executives.

Matt Whelan
Greeneville, Tn

Matthew,

“I left Wal-Mart in 2007 after 15 years of service. The only good thing I can say about them is they maximize profits at the expense of their associates, benefitting most of the upper echelon executives.”

Gee, and it only took you ‘15 YEARS’ to figure that out, right?

RDS:You have repeatedly slammed unions for some time now. Yet,you were a union truck driver for 11 years.Just what took YOU so long to figure out you didn’t like unions?

ddrb,

“You have repeatedly slammed unions for some time now. Yet,you were a union truck driver for 11 years.Just what took YOU so long to figure out you didn’t like unions?”

First, I don’t slam ALL unions, there are many smaller unions who take care of their members, it’s the ‘big unions’ that cause the problems!!  As to why it took me 11 years to figure it out, it was mainly because I started at age 18, so I was still young and stupid and bought into what they were trying to sell me!!

Part of what woke me up, was when the UAW put American Motors Corp. out of business, with their high demands, much the same as they have been doing to GM and Ford!!

You people might figure it out, when a cheeseburger costs you $10.00!!  ALL pay raises eventually come back as inflation and require more raises to catch up with constantly rising prices caused by the inflation!!  Raises affect the entire economy, not just the people getting the raise (there’s a domino effect that ripples throughout the economy)!!

RDS: You mean like the exorbitant raises and benefit packages received by CEOs of major corporations,rewards for a job NOT well done?

ddrb,

CEO pay is just a pin prick to the economy, as there aren’t that many of them!!  Workers pay is a shotgun blast to the economy, because there are so many of them!!

You tend to react to the amount of the pay, instead of the impact on the economy, like I said before, if Lee Scott were to get paid $1.00 per year and the rest of his salary were divided between all the other employees, each employee would recieve $3.33 each for the year, hardly enough to make any significant difference to their lives or the economy!!  As for a “job well done”, if the company is still standing at the end of the year, the CEO did his job, it is not possible to reap ‘great rewards’ every year!!  In Lee Scott’s case, sales and profit have increased every year since he took over!!

Lee Scott’s case, sales and profit have increased every year since he took over!! RDS----------------------------------------------Just out of sheer curiosity,could you post that list of sales and profit since Lee Scott became CEO? I can’t find it on the net. Thanks.

ddrb,

Check the WMW archives, Nick used to post these quite often!!  What I do know, is Wal-Mart has increased sales and profits every year for the past 45 years!!