Goodbye Twinkies

Quadzilla99 · Dec 5, 2012

Jacob said:
Awwwwwww...I'm tearing up here. As I said..there are many many ppl who would kill for such jobs these days. But now..as is the case many times- thanks to unions..those jobs are gone.

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I've already commented on that. I've also said- the unions were the ones in the end that killed it..and that let those clowns start up their own businesses and pay killer wages and benefits etc- see how long they last. Do you think the unions are blameless? What about the Solyndra's of Obama's world? They couldn't make it even with gov't help...and I seem to recall executives getting plenty of $..even after they fried up.

I said before there's plenty of blame to go around. The workers were represented by two separate unions depending on what job they were doing; the teamsters and the bakers union. It was the bakers union that ****ed them. The teamsters even complained about how ridiculous the bakers union was being multiple times: http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2012/11/teamsters-urge-secret-bakery-union.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/hostess-liquidation-teamsters-bakers-union_n_2145851.html

As for the Solyndra stuff...lets not get lost in a maze of moral relativism.

HughJass · Dec 6, 2012

Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn attempted to blame the company’s collapse on its workers and, in a move that seems calculated to add insult to injury, today asked a bankruptcy judge permission to pay executives $1.75 million in bonuses to oversee the dissolution of the company (and 18,000-plus union jobs). And that’s after a round of executive pay raises earlier this year.

So the workers took serious cuts to their pay and benefits while the bosses showered themselves in gold. But it was the worker's fault. Or Obamas. Or socialism's. Or the UN's.

luvin' that conservative 'personal responsibility'

LawOfThelema · Dec 8, 2012

Yep, most of political narrative is just empty words and slogans which no longer mean anything. Or they are only very selectively and opportunistically applied.