I'm not sure how these boycotting liberals imagined John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, Inc., but I believe it went a little something like this:
He gets up around 1pm, combs his long gray hair, plays a little ditty on his mandolin before sliding his feet into his Teva's, throwing a Che Guevara T-shirt over his head, and slipping into some hemp sweatpants. He gets into his car, a 1977 Volvo, and strolls into work around 2:30, a cup of fair-trade coffee in one hand, a Bob Avakian book in the other. He sits in his office, speaking, just a decibel above the Phish tune he's pouring out of his radio, about how this Country needs to start caring about poor people again. He's there for about an hour, at which time the spirit moves him to clock out. Oh, wait. You're right. I don't think he uses the time-clock. I bet he volunteers there.
WAKE up, folks! John Mackey is a libertarian. He runs a company that panders to a very large and growing group of health-conscious People, and he does so with free-market values.
He's got great ideas about health care reform, which he wrote about on his blog. In so doing, he revealed his true Red, White, and Blue colors to the American People.
He's an opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act, but the only liberals who have a problem with that are the ones who AREN'T WORKING FOR HIM. That's because Whole Foods employees have terrific benefits. No intrusive government act necessary!
You know, we cry and carry on about how corporations just won't listen to us. They won't respond to our needs and desires for quality goods and services. Then, finally, a company falls from free market heaven, answering our prayers for a grocery superstore that supplies us with a fresh, organic, free-range, antibiotic-free, hormone-free smorgasbord, and what do liberals do? Boycott it!
Well, I think Mackey is doing a fine job. He's couragous, too, putting his opinions and values out there while catering to mostly liberal customers. He's saying to them, "I am opposed to big government. We, the People, are responsible for our own lives and our own health. Whole Foods customers reap the rewards of a capitalist society."
These liberals...(and, here, I get to use one of my favorite phrases) don't know whether to shit or go blind.
So, they boycott.
He gets up around 1pm, combs his long gray hair, plays a little ditty on his mandolin before sliding his feet into his Teva's, throwing a Che Guevara T-shirt over his head, and slipping into some hemp sweatpants. He gets into his car, a 1977 Volvo, and strolls into work around 2:30, a cup of fair-trade coffee in one hand, a Bob Avakian book in the other. He sits in his office, speaking, just a decibel above the Phish tune he's pouring out of his radio, about how this Country needs to start caring about poor people again. He's there for about an hour, at which time the spirit moves him to clock out. Oh, wait. You're right. I don't think he uses the time-clock. I bet he volunteers there.
WAKE up, folks! John Mackey is a libertarian. He runs a company that panders to a very large and growing group of health-conscious People, and he does so with free-market values.
He's got great ideas about health care reform, which he wrote about on his blog. In so doing, he revealed his true Red, White, and Blue colors to the American People.
He's an opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act, but the only liberals who have a problem with that are the ones who AREN'T WORKING FOR HIM. That's because Whole Foods employees have terrific benefits. No intrusive government act necessary!
You know, we cry and carry on about how corporations just won't listen to us. They won't respond to our needs and desires for quality goods and services. Then, finally, a company falls from free market heaven, answering our prayers for a grocery superstore that supplies us with a fresh, organic, free-range, antibiotic-free, hormone-free smorgasbord, and what do liberals do? Boycott it!
Well, I think Mackey is doing a fine job. He's couragous, too, putting his opinions and values out there while catering to mostly liberal customers. He's saying to them, "I am opposed to big government. We, the People, are responsible for our own lives and our own health. Whole Foods customers reap the rewards of a capitalist society."
These liberals...(and, here, I get to use one of my favorite phrases) don't know whether to shit or go blind.
So, they boycott.
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