We always knew there was something totally not cool about Whole Foods – besides the grocery store chain’s ridiculously inflated prices.
This is what Whole Foods founder John Mackey told NPR’s Steve Inskeep about President Obama’s healthcare law:
Technically speaking, it’s more like fascism. Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn’t own the means of production, but they do control it – and that’s what’s happening with our health care programs and these reforms.
This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2013.
It sure is awful that a corporate head does not agree with the president. So manyy conflicted hippies left in the wake.
fascism
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the state, unquestioning obedience to its leader, subordination of the individual will to the state’s authority, and harsh suppression of dissent. Martial virtues are celebrated, while liberal and democratic values are disparaged.
Now which party does that sound like?