The day after Hostess went bankrupt last month the morning crew at Good Morning America were joking about it.
16,000 people lost their jobs, and our national media were laughing.
Hostess represents Twinkies, Hostess Bread and several other brands. Twinkies bore the brunt of their jokes – living walking saturated fat bars. I guess they don’t like Hostess Bread either. What? You’re buying bread? How dare you! You should be at McDonald’s buying bread the way everybody else does!
I wonder if they’re still laughing?
16,000 people and 16,000 families struggling to find an ounce of hope this Christmas with no job. Yesterday Speaker Pelosi lambsted the Republicans for taking food away form babies, seniors and disabled by not passing Speaker Boehern’s Plan “B.” I guess Pelosi was laughing with the Good Morning America clouns, then and now.
The business shows are still raking unions over the coals. They love how Michigan is now a right to work state. They hate unions. Unions suck up profits and hurt competitiveness.
For all the good unions do their members, they dropped the ball on this one. They forgot their people and caved on their “principals.”
The unions had things so fouled up that a driver of a delivery truck could only drive. Somebody else had to accompany him on his routes to offload the product into vendor’s businesses.
The same “delivery person” couldn’t stock Twinkies and Hostess Breads at the same time because the same delivery truck couldn’t carry Twinkies and Hostess at the same time.
Of course their business went down the drain. What store owner wants to deal with three deliverymen with three sets of paperwork and three bills to pay?
Unions need to pause to think about those 16,000 jobs lost. They need to think about the Mexican billionaire who’s planning to buy the remaining assets and to rebrand Hostess, to hire illegals to run the operation – and make a few more billions.
NAFTA is alive and well.
