Rim Country Gazette: Add Papa John's to boycott list

Rim Country Gazette: Add Papa John's to boycott list:

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So-called "Obamacare" is not the solution to US healthcare that I would prefer--I would rather see something more like what Canada, the U.K., and other nations not generally lambasted as "communist" are doing. But the for-profit healthcare "industry" would never permit this. And for all the people bitching and moaning about "socialism", ask yourselves this: would you rather have a privatized military (Blackwater and similar tax-payer gouging ripoffs notwithstanding)? Probably not. Fucking socialist hypocrites!

I am not, nor will I ever be, a Papa John's Pizza customer--because I don't like their pizza. (I do like pizza.) But if I were, I probably would have stopped giving them my business when their owner started whining about how much less wealthy he would be as a result of providing his underpaid workers with health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Sorry Mr. Schnatter--but you are acting like a total dick.

Years ago when Washington state attempted to pass a "death with dignity" (read: euthanasia) law, my then-employer, Providence Health Plans, owned by the Sisters of Providence, a Catholic sister (nun) organization, strongly advised us to vote against it. But they didn't threaten our jobs--how could they, short of following each one of us into the voting booth and looking over our shoulders? Even so, many of us were offended that they were sticking their noses into our private affairs. It wasn't a two-way street, after all--our employers would have had little patience for any complaints we might have about other policies of their church. But that was small potatoes compared to the veiled, and not-so-veiled threats from Obama opponents being floated since before, and now after, the recent election.

This is America, of course, and John Schnatter is entitled to run his business anyway he wishes. But we don't have to help him. I don't want to see any of his employees out on the street either. But I don't think it's too much to ask an employer to dial-back their greed a couple of notches for the common good.