Just in case you missed it, John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, let loose with a very out-of-touch op-ed in the Wall Street Journal the other day. Yep.

He starts out with a quote from Margaret Thatcher:

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

Then it gets worse:

…the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment.

I have to say, with Blue Shield at my back I feel TOTALLY empowered!! Especially when they deny payment to a doctor I went to, referred by the Emergency Ward, because they were not my doctor. Broken foot: broken wallet.

Darksyde, at DailyKos takes on Mr Mackey and vows never never never to shop at WholeFoods until he gets his head screwed on right.

Since no one at Whole Foods Market Inc., can tell CEO and co-founder John Mackey just how bad he screwed up, I will. Mr. Mackey, your extremist views on employee benefits and unionization have, lucky for you, mostly flown under the progressive radar to date. Which is why pushing that luck with this screed on healthcare suggests you are either out of your flippin mind or have suffered a lapse in business acumen not seen since New Coke. And in the WSJ no less: