Hillary Clinton and Wal-Mart: What About Debbie Shank?

[southern_belle]

Years ago while {Debbie} was working for miserable wages as a shelf stocker at Wal-Mart Ms. Shank was the innocent victim of a terrible automobile accident when a big rig slammed into her on a Missouri freeway. She suffered severe neurological damage that has permanently impaired her memory and motor skills and has made it impossible for her to function outside of the constant care of a nursing home.

Shank and her husband, Jim (who is recovering from prostate cancer and works two jobs), were awarded about $750,000 in a lawsuit against the trucking company. After the Shanks paid their legal fees, $417,000 was placed in a trust to pay for Debbie's long-term care. Wal-Mart sued the Shanks for $470,000 in medical expenses. :cry:

The behemoth corporation that made $11 billion in profits last year claimed the Shanks owed it the money because of a fine-print clause in her employee health benefits package that stipulates that Wal-Mart would recoup all medical costs if any court settlement had been reached. A Republican judge ruled in favor of Wal-Mart and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ruling will completely clean out (and then some) the trust that was set aside for Debbie Shank's long-term care.

Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart for 6 years. Wal-Mart paid her $18,000 each year she was on the board and $1,500 for every meeting she attended. She accumulated at least $100,000 in Wal-Mart stock. This might be the reason she refuses to release her tax records even though Barack Obama has done so. Maybe it's time we demand that she give back this blood money?... Maybe Hillary Clinton should visit Debbie and Jim Shank in Missouri and tell them how sorry she is for what her lovely Arkansas corporate campaign donor has done to them.

:mad:

More at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/hillary-clinton-and-walm_b_93638.html

[leftofcool]

1. Wal-Mart Board and Wal-Mart Health Insurance are

two different things. Maybe we should see who underwrites their health care package and go after them. Ya gotta read the fine print in those packages.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. FUCK Walmart and their BoD

If you want to claim that Wal-Mart and their Billionaire owners and Wealthy BoD members
are helpless and have NOTHING to do with the policies of Wal Mart, then you think
the public is dumber than they are.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. Debbie Shank's son was recently killed in Iraq

Brain-damaged woman at center of Wal-Mart suit - CNN.comJACKSON, Missouri (CNN) -- Debbie Shank breaks down in tears every time she's told that her 18-year-old son, Jeremy, was killed in Iraq. Debbie Shank ...
www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html

[futureliveshere]

4. but...but...isn't HRC fully vetted??? K&R...n/t

[Omaha Steve]

5. K&R

I too want to see the tax return.

[chocome]

6. Hey Obamamanicac..lies, lies and more lies..fuck off !!!

http://facts.hillaryhub.com/archive/?id=5620

[jorno67]

7. Hillary, Walmart, and Mrs Shank

It is all well and good to throw up a screen shot of a pro-Hillary website but the reality of the issue is that she must address this issue. For her to sit there and say nothing about this horrible but legal injustice makes her no different than Bush and Chenney and their various business interests.

[Vinca]

8. As much as I dislike both Hillary and Walmart,

I don't think Hillary can be nailed for the disgusting treatment of Mrs. Shank. We should all be emailing Walmart, though. What a corporation of greedy pigs.