More To be Thankful For

One more reason to be thankful this holiday season. Thank someone that you haven't been stuck with a catastrophic injury. Everyone is always ripping on the lawyers for personal injury suits well I say the more they get the better. Because whatever they get you probably won't be enough. Just take a look at this poor family

JACKSON, Mo. -- A collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago left 52-year-old Deborah Shank permanently brain-damaged and in a wheelchair. Her husband, Jim, and three sons found a small source of solace: a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company involved. After legal fees and other expenses, the remaining $417,000 was put in a special trust. It was to be used for Mrs. Shank's care.

Instead, all of it is now slated to go to Mrs. Shank's former employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Working people are officially at the bottom of the corporate food chain formerly known as the United States of America. If you think for a minute that there is some sort of safety net for the people of this country think again. Every document you sign there will probably be a clause buried somewhere deep where even if you read it you wouldn't understand it anyway that will take away anything that might have value to whomever such documents were signed for.

It doesn't seem like science fiction that some day soon when you no longer have value to the machine that you'll be taken to a vast and immense pit and be thrown in along with the rest of the useless. That might be a better option than the hell the Shank's are going through.