Comments on: Why John Mackey is My New Best Friend

By: rdwood

rdwood — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:04:03 +0000

Obama likes hamburgers! See him ordering his lunch at a couple burger joints:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcp7qwF_r_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19w5TSTjcg&feat...

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:29:02 +0000

This is the question that pisses me off to no end,”Why should I have to pay for someone else's health care”? I served my country in the ARMY and worked as a merchant marine for over 20 years. I made very good money and probably paid way more taxes than you will ever come close to paying. I was badly injured on the job a couple years ago and now live on disability and have Medicare as my health care provider. I get so tired of people looking down their nose at me like I'm draining their pockets. I paid my taxes, as far as I'm concerned it was like paying insurance and now I'm collecting. I know lots of rich people that don't have insurance and don't think they should have to buy it, let them get hurt and see how fast they scream for help. If they're too tight to pay health insurance, they damn sure will cry when they have to pay a huge hospital bill. Watch how quick they suddenly love and want to buy into a public health care option.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:28:54 +0000

Your narcissistic love-affair with Mackey is naively blissed out and ignorant. For one thing, a raw foods diet isn’t for everyone (or anyone, in my opinion). For another thing, many diseases are genetic, or at least have genetic components. Also, if you believe cooked foods poison the country, then whole foods is doing a great job of contributing to that because Whole Foods just an overpriced grocery store (with more of the same), which promotes a different flavor of gluttony and desire.

Furthermore, promoting independence and self-reliance is a wonderful thing, but it’s not going to in REALITY decrease the costs of health care. So once you step out of your vague, esoteric ideals and get into the real world, we will still have problems and people will still be suffering needlessly, whether or not it’s their fault. Some people (day laborers, cashiers, etc.) are necessary for the survival and prosperity of our society, but we aren’t taking care of them.

If you were under different circumstances, you wouldn’t have written this.

By: Laurel Emmons

Laurel Emmons — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:58:34 +0000

@Mary Pardon me – I failed to mention that mine is a low-income family. Others pay higher rates of tax than we do.

Low-income (for now) and still willing to pay our share.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:25:03 +0000

The previous entry mentions that the Canadian tax is 35 percent. That is less than most people here pay. When we get our national politicians responding to national issues and letting States take care of state issues, our taxes will reduce, too. It is easier to control costs at a more local level, where people can more quickly petition their officials out of office and vote someone else in.
I like this method of a raw foods diet even if i don’t agree with all of the politics involved amongst the raw-food eaters/readers. I am so glad to hear positives about the Canadian system. I hear negatives a LOT.