21 November 2007

WalMart looks out for shareholder value

The retailing behemoth successfully sued a former employee who, after having been hit by a lorry whilst working for the company, received 470K USD (£230K) from a lawsuit against the trucking company. WalMart sued to recover the monies it had spent on the woman's medical care and now Deborah Shank, who is in a nursing home, has no money left for ongoing care and her family has to rely on Medicaid and other socialist programmes to pay her bills.

The free market in action is truly beautiful to behold.

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