eaglesdare

I'm never one to get political, but I'm going to toe the line with this journal.  My aim is not to put down anyone's views, but, rather, to point out the ridiculousness that is humanity.  And now that my disclaimer is over...

If you pay attention to politics (and you should, whether you can vote or not), you know that there's a big fuss over this thing called health care.  

It's undeniable that some kind of reform is needed (when is it not?), but people have been getting mighty hot under the collar about President Obama's proposal.  The concept of 'universal health care' is ideal, no?  Everyone gets taken care of and we're all happy.  But, this is the ideal and not the real.  Like anything in this world, there are pros and cons to this idea.  Plus, we're pretty damn broke right now and this stuff is expensive!

This is where I'm going to stop.  If you want the politics, you can read these articles (you can start with this one and this one, and remember that nothing is ever unbiased).

Now let's turn our attention to Whole Foods Market...

On August 11th, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods, John Mackey, wrote an article for the Wallstreet Journal.  In this article, Mackey offers 8 tips for health care reform.  A few of the suggestions come from the health care plan that Whole Foods uses to cover their employees who work over 30 hours a week.

But Mackey's article has upset some of his Whole Foods customers, who are now boycotting the store.  

Fine, this is America and the market system is built upon consumerism; businesses that people support will flourish and businesses that don't make money fail.  Such is Capitalism.  

What this whole journal has been leading up to is the quote of one disgruntled ex-Whole Foods shopper, Christine Taylor (sorry, I had to do this).

In the ABC article, Taylor said, "I will no longer be shopping at Whole Foods.  I think a CEO should take care that if he speaks about politics, that his beliefs reflect at least the majority of his clients."

Whole Foods Market is not a representational body.  You are not its political constituent.  Whole Foods owes you nothing but food.  And it's fine if you wish to boycott the store for its CEO's political views, but we're dealing with food.  If you want political representation, you've got a congressman for that.  Whole Foods will represent your needs for organic, soy yogurt, not healthcare.

But you know, as long as we're headed this direction, I'd probably be a good thing to demand education reform from Apple.  But I shouldn't joke, because knowing them, they would. iLearn, here we come.