Yeah, right.
Like many of his fellow health food fanatics, Joshua said he will no longer patronize the store after learning about Whole Foods Market Inc.’s CEO John Mackey’s views on health care reform, which were made public this week in an op-ed piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.
Sample some of the comments here for a taste of that sweet sweet “progressive” tolerance.
*I’m sure Mackey’s view on healthcare coincides with yours entirely, and I think you’re both disgusting people. I still can’t get over your comment the other day about how if one wants health care, it’s one’s “responsibility” to make sure to get a job with good benefits*Tonight, I will pray that a blood vessel bursts in that ugly bald head of yours. I want you to experience pain and trauma and the reality of what happens when you lose your health in this country.
*In my view, you’re mistaken when you claim that your health care (or tax dollars, or whatever you’re referring to) belongs to you. So much of what we take for granted in modern life is a social good that flows from all of us living in civilization together. Social spending on health care is an investment in that civilization. It really doesn’t make sense to talk about private ownership in that context.
Boycott Whole Foods brought to you by “Single Payer Action”. Heh.
Mackey leads his Wall Street Journal diatribe against national health insurance with a quote from one of his heroines – Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”And the problem with Mackey’s campaign is that it results in the deaths of 60 Americans every day due to lack of health insurance.
Mackey is responsible for these deaths as much as anyone.
Good lord and hand me a drink, TPM reader blog does [mostly] common sense (of course with a little obligatory bashing of non-leftists with the sexual term “tea bagger”)
Comment by Matt on 8/14 @ 9:37 pm #
How about that. Who would have thought Id start shopping at whole foods? Go fig
Comment by pdbuttons on 8/14 @ 9:39 pm #
i like the part where the monkey’s touch that big black thing..in 2001
then pick up bones
and beat the shit out of the other monkeees..
and the strauss waltz
Comment by JD on 8/14 @ 9:42 pm #
Looks like I am going to Whole Foods.
Single-payer. Whatevs.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/14 @ 9:42 pm #
I am willing to bet all of JD’s money that 95% of all whole food patrons are the creme de la creme of fucking pussies in America. Well, at least before the big guy’s op ed. Tell me why again, we said that beatings are bad form?
Comment by JD on 8/14 @ 9:44 pm #
I would rather you not wager my meager sustinence, OI.
Comment by Larkin on 8/14 @ 9:47 pm #
“Good lord and hand me a drink…” Great idea. I’ll be right back.
Okay…chilled Woodford’s in hand, I’d like to say that I agree with Matt. I’ve made it a practise to not support Whole Foods in the past, all the better to avoid the Joshuas of the world.
So, if the coast is clear, I may venture by.
Comment by pdbuttons on 8/14 @ 9:47 pm #
paper
or plastic?..
mm
whatever kills more dolphins
Comment by happyfeet on 8/14 @ 9:49 pm #
I usually just get tasty vegetables and salad thingers from their deli whatever. I don’t get stuff like shampoo there or chocolate what comes with tasting notes.
Comment by pdbuttons on 8/14 @ 9:51 pm #
i shop at half
foods..
it’s scrummdelicious..
but somehow always leaves me wanting..
more..
Comment by pdbuttons on 8/14 @ 9:53 pm #
dumpster juice is like..
well not quite..
carrot juice for the soul
Comment by happyfeet on 8/14 @ 9:55 pm #
sometimes if I need wine I play this game with the wine person where I’m like if I leave here with one bottle of wine which one should it be… and if they ask me a question like well what kind of wine do you like I say nevermind, mostly politely, like I thought of something I forgot on another aisle. It’s cause for real I want you to tell me what wine to buy I don’t don’t DON’T want to discuss it with you and if you want to be all chatty I’ll just stop at Vendome on the way home. I think the wine person has only ever won that game a couple times. Wine people are sort of cheesy and stupid, often, but moreso at Whole Foods it seems.
Comment by Abe Froman on 8/14 @ 9:55 pm #
I am willing to bet all of JD’s money that 95% of all whole food patrons are the creme de la creme of fucking pussies in America.
They’re sheep in addition to being pussies. It’s the easiest psychographic to market to that there is.
Comment by JD on 8/14 @ 9:56 pm #
They have a good fresh seafood selection, and prolly have much in the way of arugula.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/14 @ 9:56 pm #
Sorry, JD. I can’t wage negative net worth, so I used you as my wager. Come on, though. That’s a sure bet as there is, though.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/14 @ 9:58 pm #
Abe is right. This is why the new Insight looks exactly like a fucking Prius. Sheep.
Comment by JD on 8/14 @ 10:05 pm #
Fair enough, OI.
Racist
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/14 @ 10:10 pm #
I just sacrificed a toggenburg goat. It was white. Racist? Hardly.
Comment by -Ed. on 8/14 @ 10:29 pm #
Single Payer Action? Hell, I haven’t been able to get any kind of action lately. I’d even consider some Married Payer Action if they pay in cash. But I digress.
Can’t help wondering — exactly how did that fool determine that 60 Americans die every day due to lack of health insurance? And does the other side of that fool’s coin say that 304 million Americans do not die every day due to lack of health insurance?
Comment by B Moe on 8/14 @ 10:37 pm #
Stop taking shit for granted. Seriously, that is where all your problems start, dude.
Comment by geoffb on 8/14 @ 10:47 pm #
A guy on another blog was spouting that line but pegged it at 20,000 per year and had the cause as insurance companies not approving treatment and lack of insurance. A new talking point arises.
I said companies are pikers compared to Governments.
Comment by dicentra on 8/14 @ 11:04 pm #
In my view, you’re mistaken when you claim that your health care (or tax dollars, or whatever you’re referring to) belongs to you. So much of what we take for granted in modern life is a social good that flows from all of us living in civilization together.
And all of us living in civilization together enhance our standard of living through COMMERCE and SPECIALIZATION and massive supply chains that eventually loop back on each other.
Social spending on health care is an investment in that civilization.
Is it? How so? Most of the people on the public dole will never do more in life than live and die on the public dole, all the while popping out another generation that lives and dies on the public dole.
I don’t think you understand the meaning of the word “invest,” sweetie. No ROI, no investment.
Comment by dicentra on 8/14 @ 11:05 pm #
Oh, and I denounce myself.
Comment by The Monster on 8/14 @ 11:13 pm #
The Bride of Monster needs to stock up on vitamins and such anyway, and I can refill the reverse-osmosis water jugs there instead of at Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (it’s only a few cents a gallon more). I plan on seeking out someone in management and telling them that I support Mackey’s position protecting all those fine Whole Foods employees’ health insurance arrangements.
Comment by B Moe on 8/14 @ 11:20 pm #
I have recently discovered a really tasty, cheap French table wine, but I honestly can’t remember the name right now because I am drunk and I left the bottle at a friends house.
Will get back to you with the name tomorrow.
Comment by Darleen on 8/14 @ 11:29 pm #
Comment by dicentra on 8/14 @ 11:04 pm
Amazing how “Progressives” don’t even want to pretend anymore that they support private property rights. When you to your job and put in 8 hours, your salary really belongs to the great “whole” … Looter mindset, nothing more.
Comment by dicentra on 8/15 @ 12:53 am #
Looter mindset
Paging Ayn Rand.
They keep thinking that people will keep pulling the wagon no matter how many people climb aboard. It’s been tried in situations large and small. Nobody is virtuous enough to be the puller when they perceive that the riders are mostly freeloaders.
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/15 @ 3:37 am #
Is it possible the Dems’ are hurrying health care because of “the next crisis?” Still-unresolved toxic assets held by banks? Especially commercial real estate? Some of you financial smart folks please comment. JHo? Others?
Elizabeth Warren, “We Have a Real Problem Coming.
The Next Wave of Financial Crisis.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 8/15 @ 4:47 am #
So, for the record, people who like to pay $48 a pound for shrimp want me to pitch in and foot the bill for their AZT prescriptions?
They’ll be moving into your house Dr. Zhivago style before long.
Comment by ghost707 on 8/15 @ 5:43 am #
Commercial loans/leases defaults are getting ready to hit. The Banks (all of them I’m sure by now) have been playing the stock market, raising everyone’s credit card interest rates, banking fees etc to cover for the coming wave of commercial defaults.
The dollar is going to shit and when they all start unloading hundred of millions of shares on the stock market to cover their asses, it won’t be pretty.
Enron dissolved partly due to mark to market accounting – which seems to be accepted practice now.
But hey, when you can buy off the White House and Treasury – no worries.
Socialize the losses and privatize the profits.
Oligarchy Baby! Banana Republic! Yeah Baby!
Comment by Pablo on 8/15 @ 5:47 am #
I had no idea that one could die from an insurance deficiency, nor that a grocery CEO could cause that. You learn something new every day…
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/15 @ 6:11 am #
“Looter mindset”
Ayn Rand was a fucking Cassandra.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/15 @ 6:12 am #
“Social spending on health care is an investment in that civilization.”
So where does the money come from?
Unicorn farts?
Comment by Carin on 8/15 @ 6:23 am #
Happy, it’s unfair you don’t tell the wine folks your ground rules. If someone asked me what wine, I’d first have to know red or white.
W/o knowing that … c’est impossible.
Best cheap wine? Barefoot.
ranges from 7-10 buck a bootle. At times it goes for around 5.
Comment by LTC John on 8/15 @ 7:18 am #
“Two Buck Chuck” $2.99 Charles Shaw, at Trader Joe’s.
Comment by Rusty on 8/15 @ 7:21 am #
Trader Joes, happy. Theres the red flavored stuff and the white flavored stuff and its 4 bucks a bottle.
Comment by Rusty on 8/15 @ 7:22 am #
beer
Comment by fmfnavydoc on 8/15 @ 7:24 am #
But…but…but…where will the Orgasm go to get his arugula???
Comment by Eben on 8/15 @ 7:50 am #
60 a day is a bargain. Wait until you get community health care, more like 600 a day.
Comment by hoss on 8/15 @ 7:56 am #
In other words “gimme gimme gimme”
What isn’t a “right” to be provided by the govt?
I am starting to refer to far leftists as govt fundamentalists or govt fundies for short. Just like they mock those who are religious, I am going to mock their faith that everything would be alright as long as the govt just ran it.
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 8/15 @ 8:04 am #
“Single Payer Action?” Sounds like the only way most of those losers can ever get laid.
Comment by JD on 8/15 @ 8:19 am #
Run to the ample saggy bosom of mother government, bitches
Comment by geoffb on 8/15 @ 8:42 am #
Gov Botherers.
Comment by FreakyBoy on 8/15 @ 8:45 am #
How crushing for the arugula munching left to discover the CEO of their progressive lifestyle confirming supermarket is a capitalist.
Profiteer!
Comment by sdferr on 8/15 @ 8:49 am #
Boycotts seem to be all the rage as the fashion goes. Don Boudreaux asks the left, do you have a principle? He also links to J. Stossel’s take on Mackey here.
Comment by geoffb on 8/15 @ 9:01 am #
Yep.
Comment by rrpjr on 8/15 @ 9:07 am #
Right, we’ll see how that boycott goes. Good luck standing between a lefty and his olive bar and hemp shirts. But I’m glad to hear about Mackey. I’m a newly inspired Whole Foods shopper.
A bit of a non-sequitor, but I live in Hollywood and shop at two places, a multi-ethnic bargain supermarket patronized by lower-middle class on the edge of town and a Whole Foods in the chi-chi district. It’s fascinating to note the difference in the tone and character of the experiences. The bargain market is a loose, friendly atmosphere. When I’m in a line with one or two items someone invariably offers me a space in front. The clientele are mostly immigrants and many wear patriotic clothing or accessories. The clerks are cheerful. Whole Foods is another story: Shoppers don’t make eye contact or smile. While there’s a smattering of neutral or pleasant clerks, many seem to have chips on shoulders. I’ve never seena person yield space in a checkout line. Commie-hip fashion and Obama paraphernalia are common. Parking lot is a passive-aggressive battle zone.
The affluent liberal in America these days seems unhappy, tense, scared.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 8/15 @ 10:04 am #
“Like many of his fellow health food fanatics”
Man, talk about bad journalism. “many” does not mean “me and my buddies who hate Republicans.”
Comment by Spiny Norman on 8/15 @ 10:10 am #
Mackey’s WSJ piece seems perfectly sensible to me. Why the outrage on the Left?
Is the very idea of “personal responsibility” something like kryptonite to them?
Comment by Spiny Norman on 8/15 @ 10:15 am #
What kind of recreational drugs are those “Single Payer Action” twerps using? Damnit, they are fucking insane.
Comment by dicentra on 8/15 @ 10:33 am #
The affluent liberal in America
these days seemsis unhappy, tense, scared.FTFY
I was without insurance for two years after I quit my job for health reasons. I continued to see a doctor about once a month, got blood tests, bought meds (including antidepressants from Canada).
And it was still cheaper than paying the premiums for the public pool.
As for Glenn Beck, Fox News isn’t losing money because of the boycott: they merely shifted their ads to other programs on the same network.
But McCain is right: the Proggs have no shame.
Comment by geoffb on 8/15 @ 10:41 am #
“Affordable High Quality Health Care”.
Expect that the definitions of “Affordable”, “High Quality” and even “Health Care” to
evolvedevolve,progressregress over an amazingly short time period if this monster of a bill passes. Obama, defining “Health Care” down for the benefit of… well himself.Comment by McGehee on 8/15 @ 11:03 am #
Not yet. That won’t happen until almost eighty years ago.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/15 @ 11:06 am #
Is Obama going to use the public option health care?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/15 @ 11:17 am #
Acorn rent-a-mob in Central PA:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/08/14/dems-bus-in-city-acornunion-mob-to-rural-pa-town-hall/
Oh the irony of the astroturfers complaining about astroturfing.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 8/15 @ 12:07 pm #
About 8 people a day die for lack of a kidney. I blame all the selfish bastards that insist on keeping both of theirs. You know who youare.
Comment by Carin MD on 8/15 @ 12:12 pm #
well, whew. At least I’m innocent of that.
Comment by sdferr on 8/15 @ 12:19 pm #
Does the coming universal unhealthcaresystem logically demand that possessor’s of only one kidney (having donated their other already) now enroll themselves forthwith on a kidney receiving list in light of the possibility that their one remaining kidney might fail one day and the waits will no doubt be long and possibly fatal?
Comment by Walknot on 8/15 @ 1:15 pm #
I’m gunna hit Whole Foods this week. They seem to carry Bell’s Oberon all year. Gotta respect that.
Comment by -Ed. on 8/15 @ 1:30 pm #
Gaetano D’Aquino bottles a superb pinot grigio, about $5 per bottle. I’ve found it at Trader Joe’s and at World Market. Really nice stuff for the price.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/15 @ 1:42 pm #
It is an unfair game, Carin, but it’s just I live in a retail world I didn’t create. It’s like how I got two pair shoes the other day and I was in and out of DSW in less than eight minutes. My friend J says one of the pair is ugly. She says they’re Armo shows. That’s a racist term for Armenian. I like them though. Sometimes I’ve shopped for like a half hour at Ralph’s and then seen an insulting Soviet-era line to checkout and just written down the stuff in my cart that was a must buy and went back at 5 a.m. cause I still saved time on the dealio like that. It’s not the most attractive aspect of my personality but there it is.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/15 @ 1:43 pm #
oh. Armo *shoes* I mean.
Comment by JD on 8/15 @ 2:44 pm #
Never heard that term Armo before.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/15 @ 2:47 pm #
Me neither I think it’s ugly. The sullen Armenian yoot at my dry cleaners are hot is all I know.
Comment by Carin MD on 8/15 @ 3:08 pm #
Does the coming universal unhealthcaresystem logically demand that possessor’s of only one kidney (having donated their other already) now enroll themselves forthwith on a kidney receiving list in light of the possibility that their one remaining kidney might fail one day and the waits will no doubt be long and possibly fatal?
Alas, I fear as I age … I may be deemed, cost-benefit analysis wise, too risky. I see a blue pill in my future.
Comment by PMain on 8/15 @ 7:13 pm #
Shop @ WholeFoods once a week – girlfriend’s choice, prefer Trader Joe’s. I always remember to wear my USS Ronald Reagan cap though, & a smile.
Comment by rrpjr on 8/15 @ 8:39 pm #
#65 – I’m with you. I try to wear one of my right-wing T-shirts or caps, always smile. Love the furrowed brows and averted glowers.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/15 @ 8:52 pm #
OBAMACARE
Finally, Democrats embrace the death penalty !!!
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 8/15 @ 10:47 pm #
I’ve known quite a few people who’ve lost their health in this country and 95% percent of the pain and trauma they suffered was the result of the disease, injury or condition that robbed them of their health or the treatment thereof. Losing your health is painful and traumatic and that is the reality. Thinking that changing the way we pay for treatment of disease etc will make all the pain and trauma go away is just magical thinking.
So you want to substitute force (which is what government is all about) for the voluntary cooperation (much of it profit or self interest driven) that is civilization. Makes sense, NOT. God damned barbarian.
All that and the people dying for lack of medical coverage moonbattery. The only conclusion to be reached is that the community based reality is not much fun to be in.
Comment by B Moe on 8/16 @ 6:39 am #
You should loan them to your friend so she can walk a mile in them. Supposed to help, what I hear.
Comment by rrpjr on 8/16 @ 10:23 am #
The Left wants you to die if you don’t agree with them but simultaneously exalts the flowing social goods of their version of “civilization.”
And nothing you say (at least nothing I’ve ever said) will bring them to examine or question this pernicious incoherence.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/16 @ 11:05 am #
#33 Carin:
Try the St. Julian and Leelanau Cellers wines.
Very good,
Comment by Rusty on 8/16 @ 11:07 am #
#70
I don’t like their version of civilization. It’s all round corners in grey and toupe with predictable results. I like my civilization hard edged, brightly colored, and spontaneous. You know. Fun.
Comment by Yackums on 8/17 @ 3:18 am #
Mackey 2012!