I too am annoyed by all of the OMG SOCIALISM coming from the right, because it fails to split apart  welfare state policies and command economy policies.  Command economy policies have failed so spectacularly that almost no one does it, and those that do have ruined economies.  Anyone that purposes command economy policies should be punched for being a moron with a complete and total inability to learn from the past and present.  Thankfully, the president isn’t a moron and hasn’t proposed any command economy policies.  

Welfare policies have shown that you can smooth over social strife, make your population happy (which is the only thing that matters in the end if you ask me), but you have to be careful to balance how much you spend.  That isn’t OMG SOCIALISM, that is welfare state policies.  It deserves a critical eye so we don’t spend ourselves to death, but it isn’t the next step to resurrecting Stalin.

Is it purely some word association because the USSR had the word Socialist in it that therefore everything socialist is evil, pinko, commie,scum?

Socialism seems to work well here, and in places like Canada, the UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland and quite a few other European countries but I see the the word Socialist being bandied about like it means the Anti-Christ.

I won’t ask you to consider the idea that you might actually be wrong on this one.  I can see it’s beyond your observational and contemplative capacities.

But good luck to you anyway, and keep banging the rocks together.

Cheers!

and he is wrong-in-spirit if not in fact on the Global Warming thing, 

Fact.

More importantly, he buys into this “the amount on your paycheck is what you are actually worth to society” bullshit.  And there’s the fact that he would rather have society led by an unaccountable corrupt private sector (including himself, surprise surprise) than a barely accountable corrupt public sector.

What annoys me most about this latter-day anti-socialist fervor is how often it seems to ignore the fact that a great many US policies have been and are pretty damned socialist.

Do you think all those people are crazy and/or lying and that you are the only one taking your suggestion seriously?  Or can you consider the idea that you might actually be wrong on this one?

If that is not fascist I don’t know what is.

This is fascism.  Note the complete lack of resemblance to what you’re trying to call fascism.

Nope. Not “taking out”; conveying through. I’ve been the “low-level worker”. Didn’t mind it at all.

Apparently you believe taking out your grievances on a low-level worker magically alerts to CEO to your grievance via some sort of voodoo transitive property.

There are effective means of protest. The described scenario is not one of them. The only thing it could possibly accomplish is the venting of the “protestor’s” spleen, at the expense of the worker who has to clean up for that impotent, self-indulgent little stunt.

The only aspect of the gesture that might actually make its way into the CEO’s ken is the lost sale, which can be just as well accomplished without the ill-conceived histrionics.

I guess by that logic no one should ever boycott for fear we may be misunderstood.

Shortened that for you.

Glad to see it’s working out so well for you.

You mean your broken link? Nope, it doesn’t work. Here, I’ll teach you how to use stock market quotes like business people do.

Meanwhile, Kroger takes lead from Whole Foods. We’ll see if this trend continues and increases with the boycott down the road where people begin taking their money elsewhere.

Meanwhile, because of the pressure from people threatening boycotts across the country (on their Facebook page, twitter, etc.), the Whole Foods board has obviously forced the CEO to begin retracting some of his statements… (too little, too late though). You seem to think it doesn’t matter, but for some strange reason the Whole Foods board felt they needed to address the issue on their Facebook page.

Being the business-savvy person you are, I’m sure you would know that it’s too early to see what effect the boycott will have on the company’s valuation. We’ll just wait and see, won’t we?

Also, if profits begin to drop in 2013, I guess we won’t be hearing back from you again, will we?

Also, thanks for reminding me to print out some stupid shit the CEO says and put it on the front door of my local Whole Foods for the customers to see as they walk in. I hope you’ll do the same. ^_^

Who cares if the extra hours are counted against management. They can simply report the problem. It still lands squarely in the lap of the CEO.

Your experience may not have been the same, but that’s no reason to throw the accusation of lying.