The campaign donations made by Whole Foods Chief Executive Officer John Mackey show that the man is a rightward-leaning libertarian whose views are likely more in vogue with nineteenth century thinking. Mackey's views are even arcane enough that he supported radical Libertarian Presidential candidate Harry Browne with financial gifts to Browne's campaigns. This proves that Mackey's economic views are extremely classical and in many ways anti-working class or poor. The fact that he strongly opposes the Obama health care plan should surprise no one.

The real question is whether or not the millions of young people who supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign would ever follow through with a boycott of Whole Foods to show their displeasure with his extremely adamant and open anti-Obama rhetoric. If these young people do not take action then nothing will happen. Of course Mackey came out with his own health care proposal which is centered around the false premise that tax credits will often be enough to provide health care for the poor and the underpaid. Mr. Mackey's proposal just parrots more right wing talking points about enacting tort reform and enacting Medicare reform without going into specifics.

Of course Mr. Mackey would say that it is not his job to come up with the specifics, but indeed the job of legislators. This is correct, but so many CEOs are always screaming that a political outsider with business credentials can always do a better job of legislating than any representative within the territory of Washington D.C. This is why I invited Mr. Mackey to step up to the plate and offer specifics. Of course Mr. Mackey also references the tax code again and says we should just make it easier for affluent people to donate to causes to help the uninsured, as if a few rich people sitting in a room writing a check is going to fix the issue.

People on Daily Kos and other left wing sites have vowed to never shop at Whole Foods again due to Mackey's position on health care reform. I guess this way Mackey will see the tort reform that he was given that there will less people in his stores so thus less of a chance you will end up getting sued. I don't know if the Daily Kos crowd will follow through on their threats, but they at least need to point out to him that tort reform has already been enacted by many state legislatures around the country.