EVIL EMPIRE

Let me start by saying that I am not a protester by nature, in fact I have never been involved in one at all. These stories have changed all of that, and I felt compelled to share them with the people who come upon my blog. I am not asking anyone to join me but to just read and think about this Evil Empire that almost all of us are supporting each month.

The first horrifying story
My Husband came home last night and told me this horrifying thing that had just happened to a co-worker of his. His Co-worker calls on Wal-mart's Corporate office in Bentonsville Arkansas. while he was down there this week, he pulls into the parking lot and sees a two year old child wandering around clutching his blanket. All the child can say is Mama. When he goes inside to see if anyone knows the child or can help he hears this response, "We don't care, you can call the police if you want to but leave us out of it."He proceeds to ask FOUR different Wal-Mart Corp. employees in Multipul buildings in there office complex and gets the same response. So he goes back outside with the child and someone from across the street comes over and says that child has been wondering around Wal-mart Corporates parking lot for 2 hours! So my husband's co-worker proceeds to call the police and the child was taken by DHS. Just think about the amount of people that must have walked by this child all alone in a parking lot and did NOTHING! I know the first response is to say well this is probably just just a few bad people who works inside wal-mart's headquarters, however read story number two and decide if this is characteristic of Wal-Mart as a whole.

Story number 2
A women who is an employee of Walmart is hit by a 18 wheeler and has sever brain damage and has to live in a nursing facility. The family wins a law suit against the trucking company that in the end amounts to $400,000. Wal-Mart sues the woman for $400,000 because they had in fine print that if their insurance paid for something that was later won in a law suit they could come back and collect. So what they did was legal, but was is ethical? The woman is not wealthy, she was using this money to pay for the nursing care. Her son was killed in Iraq shortly after her accident. Wal-mart paid $300,000 in legal fees to win the $400,000 suit! Wal-mart makes BILLIONS of dollars each year and is worried about what amounted to $100,000?! Since this story made the news this week Wal-Mart decided to let the woman keep her money but doesn't this demonstrate to all of us what kind of a company this is?

I say all of this because I could only think, what if this had been my child in story number one and no one would help him? How could a company pride it self on helping the community and then encourage its people to have no compassion? Wal-mart will probably still make billions of dollars of profit this year, but it won't be with any help from me.