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In reply to the discussion: Whole Foods CEO Rethinks Decision To Compare Obamacare to "Fascism" [View all]southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)38. Well the man still said it and he meant it. It's only PR that he is taking it back.
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Whole Foods CEO Rethinks Decision To Compare Obamacare to "Fascism" [View all]
octoberlib
Jan 2013
OP
+1. I had stopped going to Whole Foods before due to the CEO's earlier comments
yardwork
Jan 2013
#49
And I can still not shop at wholePaycheck, because I think the CEO meant exactly what he first said
peacebird
Jan 2013
#3
LOL. "One of the great examples that I point people to is what they’re doing in Switzerland..."
phleshdef
Jan 2013
#4
this is CORRECT! On basic health insurance, the western European countries don't allow for
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#34
so tell me how any company can profit for providing health care for people who really need it?
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#36
I don't shop at Whole Foods, but know people that do. The typical customer seems to
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#31
Doesn't know what fascism is and doesn't know squat about Swiss healthcare...
joeybee12
Jan 2013
#24
Ah, but you see, it doesn't happen to people like them only 'parasites.' Problem solved!
freshwest
Jan 2013
#60
Well the man still said it and he meant it. It's only PR that he is taking it back.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#38
Does that fuckin' idiot think that the word "fascism" was a dictionary word prior to
MNBrewer
Jan 2013
#40
Does this guy have Tourette's or something? He's said something like this and retracted it at
Politicub
Jan 2013
#48
... but we've already seen the "power of free enterprise capitalism"...
surrealAmerican
Jan 2013
#50
I heard that interview on NPR and almost vomited. Could not believe his spew.
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#58
"What I do believe in is free enterprise capitalism, and I’d like to see our healthcare system..."
Snarkoleptic
Jan 2013
#64