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   ConserveGov said, 6 months ago

   Neither one was willing to adjust.
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   Pearl Deans said, 6 months ago

   A—I loved Twinkies as a kid. Now when I think of eating one, I get nauseous.
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   BrassOrchid said, 6 months ago

   Twinkies are a luxury. The failing corrupted monetary system destroyed both Hostess and the Union ultimately. But the arguments over who was to blame were fun. It is easy to get them to turn on one another. It is natural to them.
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   wolfhoundblues1 said, 6 months ago

   If the union members think the company can make money, then why doesn’t the union reps buy the recipe and keep making them?
   Socialism only works as long as there is someone else to rob.
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   Tigger said, 6 months ago

   Once again The Union Brass cost their Members their Jobs. When will Union Members learn to stop listening to the Union Brass telling the Members to stay off the production lines because the Company is bluffing?
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   greyArea said, 6 months ago

   As a corporation, Hostess was obviously in death throes. Concessions, in this case would be similar to pumping air into a tire with no sidewall.
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   coraryan said, 6 months ago

   The answer, obvously, is B. The unions have driven business out of this country, and are too stuborn or corrupt (or both) to admit it. They had a purpose at one time, but that time has passed.
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   greyArea said, 6 months ago

   To nearly quote something I heard recently, “Unions are people too.”
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   Ian Rey said, 6 months ago

   Debt. The vulture capitalists took a profit making company, loaded it with debt, and the market could no longer sustain the margins. Like Mitt wanted to do to America.
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    The corporate thieves at the top destroyed the company.
    The union wouldn’t bend to mgmts regressive demands.
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    Jon88 said, 6 months ago

    “The private-equity owners had loaded the company down with debt, the CEO had tripled his pay, the union had previously taken a big, big pay cut…” http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12928-hostess-failure-not-unions-fault
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    onguard said, 6 months ago

    What killed the Twinkie???…..No Brainer…..The Nanny State using their Go-fers
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    Tigger said, 6 months ago

    @Radish

    The Corporate Thieves at the top of The Auto Industry would have destroyed The Auto Industry had Obama not bailed them out.

    Why is Obama not bailing out Hostess to save 18,000 Jobs?
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    Norton99 said, 6 months ago

    @coraryan

    Because it’s not as if a market economy needs a middle class, after all.
    Oh, wait…
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    @Tigger

    Maybe Michelle hates cupcakes.
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