Whole Foods Single Payer Protest

Single Payer Action Boycott Protest
Whole Foods Store
P Street NW Washington, D.C.
August 21, 2009 12 noon

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• whole foods
• john mackey
• russell mokhiber
• single payer
• health care
• boycott
• protest

[c20995]

They keep saying he attacked them, attacked their health. What article did they read? Don't they understand that if they succeed with the boycott and Whole Foods closes, the CEO will still be rich, but the 50,000 plus workers will lose their jobs, benefits, homes and where would the millions of liberals get their healthy food then? Who will support the now thousands of unemployed single mothers. The protesters will go back to their cushy jobs and town homes with a evil smile on their faces.

[WhoIsJohnGalt4279]

Whole Foods provides HSA's for their employees. A program that advocates better health and individual responsibility must scare the heck out of single payer advocates. The whole idea of millions of Americans with tax-free FDIC insured health care nest eggs that can be passed from generation to generation is the antithesis of their being.

[Bulldog22031]

Ask any Whole Foods full time employee if they like their health benefits - they will tell you it's probably the best they've ever had, or even the best they could ever have.

[ab1tchslap]

Are you seriously talking to me?

Well, you see, things cost money. When a person goes to school and gets real smart it costs money. That person uses their smartness to help people, but helping people also cost money. Do you get it now? Those people need to give the smart doctor money, because he's saving them time by going to school for years to save their lives. Do you see? Do you see?

[trenticle]

Like the right to an education, or, the right to an attorney, I think everyone should have the right to health care. I think it is a moral, civic and christian duty. And "single payer", can be done more cost effectively that our current system without leaving anyone out. I think that you should educate yourself about economics. Drugs and prostitution are not regulated. But everything else is to protect the public. Price gouging/fixing, transportation, utilities, commodities, all regulated.

[dreamstatewave]

Why do we think healthcare should be treated as a business? Why is it that our country thinks health is a privilege of net worth? And quit slamming liberals.

[ab1tchslap]

Why is it that liberals think health care is so different from every other good that is provided by the free market?

[mmsayre]

I suppose this is all just far too complicated for people which aren't as smart as you to understand. You see, people which disagree with you are all very unintelligent, so they have to resort to over-simplifications in order to interpret their world. I have actually never heard that big evil corporations have been abusive. That totally shattered my world view.

Now I realize that the iron fist of govt can rid the world of all these problems. It has worked so well every time it's been tried.

[mmsayre]

Don't forget to stop using oil or products shipped using oil products. Those oil types are real right wingers.

No more products or materials "made in China", they have a horrendous human rights record.

You should probably investigate the political ideology of the producers of everything you consume.

Or you could realize that you can appreciate and patronize the services of people from all backgrounds, ideological and otherwise.

I have never heard of a racist rejecting peanut butter, 4 example.

[mmsayre]

The private health care which doesn't suffer from being insured, and has a cost sensitive consumer, improves in both quality and price.

Elective procedures where people react to price, like Lasik and cosmetic surgery are perfect examples of the market functioning as it should.

The US system is not ranking poorly because it's private, but because it's expensive. People from all over the planet go to the US for care if they can afford it. Price sensitivity would fix the US system.

[mmsayre]

You're guessing wrong. I attacked some guy that said women make terrible leaders a few days back. This guy was a obviously a staunch conservative, so I asked him how he felt about Thatcher.

So now you've gone 2 for 2 in guessing someone you don't know fits into a little box you have created for people that don't agree with you.

[mmsayre]

Might it be possible that this guy is not a republican or member of the GOP. Not everyone that disagrees with you is the same.