Whole Foods CEO John Mackey sowed the wind in a recent WSJ
op-ed favoring free-market health care reform, and now
apparently he's reaping the whirlwind of his urban, elite,
left-leaning clientele.
ABC News reports,
Joshua has been taking the bus to his local Whole Foods in New
York City every five days for the past two years. This week, he
said he'll go elsewhere to fulfill his fresh vegetable and
organic produce needs.
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,
"I will never shop there again," vowed Joshua, a 45-year-old
blogger, who asked that his last name not be published...
Needless to say, John Mackey is quaking in his
boots.
It is a little ironic, though. The Joshuas of this world want to
punish John Mackey for his ruthless capitalism by taking their
grocery dollars elsewhere... i.e., ruthless capitalism.
I did appreciate this quote, though:
"You should know who butters your hearth-baked bread, John,"
wrote the commenter. "Last time I checked it wasn't the
insurance industry conservatives who made you a millionaire a
hundred times over."
Hearth-baked bread... delicious. And if anyone did in fact butter
John Mackey's hearth-baked bread, it would have been a Whole
Foods employee for whom, as we find out in Mackey's op-ed,
...Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums...for our
high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to
$1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through
deposits into employees' Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as
they choose on their own health and wellness.
Wow, sounds like this guy really hates the working class. Sounds
like he's a real free-range, 100 percent organic
anti-union, libertarian dick.
UPDATE: I see that Doug Bandow
beat me to the punch by seven minutes. Oh well, I'll
apologize to him for doubling up on this topic in the check-out
line at WF.
