Tallahassee: There’s a box of Twinkies in that grocery store. Not just any box of Twinkies, the last box of Twinkies that anyone will enjoy in the whole universe. Believe it or not, Twinkies have an expiration date. Some day very soon, Life’s little Twinkie gauge is gonna go… empty.
At the White House petition site:
We petition the Obama Administration to:
Nationalize the Twinkie industry
We the undersigned, hereby request Barack Obama to immediately Nationalize the Twinkie industry and prevent our nation from losing her sweet creamy center.
Created: Nov 16, 2012
Issues: Civil Rights and Liberties, Human Rights
Signatures needed by December 16, 2012 to reach goal of 25,000 22,422
Total signatures on this petition 2,578
Also at the White House petition site:
We petition the Obama Administration to:
The Hostess company has been forced to shut its doors because of an employee strike that crippled its operations. With Hostess closing, over 18,000 people will be out of work.
Big Labor Boss Richard Trumka heads up the union responsible for this. Trumka boasts he visits the White House two to three times a week. Shouldn’t he be protecting his members instead?
Now, more than 18,000 people will be out of work as Hostess Brands is forced to liquidate due to a prolonged strike by union workers.
It’s time to ban Richard Trumka from the White House until he starts protecting workers, and stops playing politics.
Created: Nov 16, 2012
Issues: Economy, Job Creation, Labor
Signatures needed by December 16, 2012 to reach goal of 25,000 24,440
Total signatures on this petition 560
Because workers should never expect that our corporate masters actually pay decent wages.
It looks like Twinkie nationalization is winning.
Via Twitter:
Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone
There is no justice in this world if Hostess goes down while Little Debbie lives on. 11:33 PM – 16 Nov 12
Exactly.
Who is responsible?:
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Hostess Brands Inc.
November 16, 2012What’s happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor. Crony capitalism and consistently poor management drove Hostess into the ground, but its workers are paying the price. These workers, who consistently make great products Americans love and have offered multiple concessions, want their company to succeed. They have bravely taken a stand against the corporate race-to-the-bottom. And now they and their communities are suffering the tragedy of a needless layoff. This is wrong. It has to stop. It’s wrecking America.
Uh, yep.
And the usual suspects blame unions and workers.
many years later, his mother tried to please him by providing “homemade” twinkies. That creamy filling? Crisco and sugar. It was at an earlier time, I’m told, lard and sugar. No real surprises there.
I did like Hostess snowballs when I was ten … but wouldn’t eat one on a bet now.
CEO’s giving themselves 300% raises before shuttering the company – and blaming it on the unions – it wasn’t just the product that was vile.