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https://reason.com/podcast/202...sts-are-taking-over/ The 'conscious capitalism' innovator on overregulation, COVID mandates, and why he will be speaking his mind much more freely when he retires. "My concern is that I feel like socialists are taking over," Whole Foods CEO John Mackey tells me on today's show. "They're marching through the institutions. They're…taking over education. It looks like they've taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they've taken over the military. And it's just continuing. You know, I'm a capitalist at heart, and I believe in liberty and capitalism. Those are my twin values. And I feel like, you know, with the way freedom of speech is today, the movement on gun control, a lot of the liberties that I've taken for granted most of my life, I think, are under threat." For many reasons, he says he couldn't speak his mind on various issues, especially what he sees as a dangerous drift toward more and more control of everyday life, commerce, and speech. That all changes in September, he said, and we should expect him to be even more outspoken in his celebration of capitalism, which he considers the greatest anti-poverty program ever created, and many other issues. More at link _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | ||
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Welcome to the party, pal. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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The lefts response: "Heresy, he's evil burn him at the stake, probably racist too!" You know there will be boycotts to follow, even if not an organized one, he probably pissed off a good amount of his customers. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Haha. Yes ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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Feel the force young Padawan … much to learn there is. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Well, he is brave today in saying these things because he is retiring from his CEO job in a few weeks. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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I’d lay odds that 95% or more of Whole Paycheck’s employees and customers vote democrat. Democrats are socialists are communists. | |||
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Good for him for taking their whole paycheck… "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Rip Van Winkle just woke up after he fell asleep for 20 years . | |||
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Yeah, basically he's just a coward. Q | |||
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Guys like john are the target of socialism. I’m surprised it took him so long to say anything. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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He still said it. Look how many remain silent. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Went in there once. They had a cucumber slice in a plastic bottle of water and wanted like six dollars for it. I left and have never returned. While I agree with some of his comments, his stores are trash. Marketing for leftists and they lap it up. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Stupid should hurt, that’s what I believe. | |||
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He's been the center of controversy in the past. Anyone remember the "Hey Mackey" flash mobs way back when the healthcare system was being reformed? | |||
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