Whole Foods CEO Says No to Socialized Health Care? Boycott. Boycott.

Let me get this straight.

Last Wednesday, John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods, took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to opine that “we clearly need health care reform,” but arguing against the solutions being put forward by the administration: “The last thing our country needs is a massive new health care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health care system.”

Gasp.

Here's a guy who sells high-end, luxury-quality organic foods and products produced mostly by small operations of independent, for-profit farmers and for-profit businesses, shipped by for-profit truckers, to the stores in his for-profit luxury grocery store chain, shares of which (WFMI) sell on the for-profit Nasdaq Stock Market to customers who carry thin credit cards attached to thick bank accounts and investment portfolios.

And he thinks they don't back socialized medicine?

Silly him.

As of this writing, 11,000 of those customers have gone to Facebook to sign onto a boycott of Whole Foods Markets in retaliation for Mackey's opinion.

I can't wait for socialized grocery stores, can you? Organic grocery customers following Dr. Ezekel Emanuel's "complete lives" plan? Twenty-one-year-olds get any food they want, forty-year-olds get the day-old stuff, and seventy-year-olds get to rummage through the dumpsters. Four-year-olds with their noses pressed against the bakery window sign up for a lottery to see who gets to taste the organic chocolate napoleons. Food for free! The rich pay.

Okay, businesses pay. All right, everybody pays. Except illegal aliens.

But not everybody eats.

In the words of presidential health care advisor and brother of Rahm Emanuel (so we know he won't be going anywhere anytime soon):

When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.

After all, seventy-year-olds were twenty-one-year-olds once, right? They used to eat.


Hat tip: American Power: Whole Foods Boycott: Leftists Don't Want Discussion
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Ichthyological curiosity of the day:





Napoleon fish (Cheilinus undulatus).

Mainly found in coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region.