It´s what the citizens voted for.

18,500 jobs lost. Unions and Obama voters. Keep your job with a pay cut or drive your company out of business and join the unemployment rolls. Genius.

Greddy capitalists bakers were just making people fat anyway. If they would have stayed in business Obamacare would have put a cap and trade regulation on Twinkis and Ho-Ho´s, then only people like Michael Moore who could afford to buy other peoples rations of the yummie treats could have all they want with no limits. PLus he won´t need O-care because he can afford to go to doctors in Mexico and Cuba rather than wait in long lines at an O-clinic with the rest of the poor people in the country.

When you lie down with dogs (unions), you get up with fleas (no jobs)! Very good union workers! I hope your unemployment benefits are enough to keep your homes! Fools!!!

Hostess is dead, White House congenital lying is alive.

Who knew we were at a Twinkie Cliff.

Ironic isn´t it, since this POS has been re-elected unemployed benefits go back to 29 weeks in January 2013! Poetic justice for obamabots!

Now if the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce

could similarly...SHUT DOWN.

Old union joke - A union member would rather be out of a great job than work at a good job. It´s not a joke anymore. I feel bad for all who lost their job. My first hostess treat was a snowball. I fell in love at first bite.

You asked for it, you got it Toyota! Well.. in this case Twinky.

Discovered in the ration pantries of 1960s-era fallout shelters, these tasty morsels have often been found to be still edible. So there is still time to run down to your local Pak and Sak and buy up a lifetime´s supply. I know Micheal Moore will be.

just kidding.

Hope. Change.

/sarcasm off

5,000 refused to work with the company and it cost the other 13,500 their jobs. Just think the Liar in Chief is refusing to work with the House..refusing to cut the real fluff..refusing to cut spending for the few for the better of the many...anybody else see the irony?

I got a feeling we´re going to see a lot more of this kind of thing.

I went out an bought a box for Thanksgiving. I grew up with twinkies but not sure my kids did. So that will be our TG treat. At least I will know they enjoyed the same childhood delight I knew. Welcome to the age of the soviet revolution inAmerica. From a land of plenty to hoarding distant memories.

Elizabeth Warren will start a pemican factory..jobs..very little wampum to start.s/

Expect lots of ´´disability´´ claims, which means they´ll never be counted as unemployed.

In today´s new America no job is better than any job.... the goverment will keep paying those who do not work....

This is what you get when you vote for democrats.

The Hostess brand is too valauable to waste away. Look for an investor (like - gasp - Bain Capital) to buy the assets in bankruptcy and resume productioon within a few months.

Actually, I see the unemployed unionist sponging off the Amerikan people, now.

Not to worry, as another poster said, they have a shelf life of many years. I never liked the dern things. My Sis and I made better concoctions with our own made up recipes.

The sad thing is, these people weren´t union members; they were workers in the retail outlet stores.

Just one tip of the proverbial iceberg.

There is going to be an avalanche of layoffs coming. This is only the beginning.

Merry Christmas, workers! Love, your union

I already see people blaming Hostess for the shut-down. As if anyone wants to go bankrupt and shut down their whole business. This isn´t a threat. Congrats, Obama electorate.

Rush said, at the end of his program today, that the WH has a petition up on its "we the people" site asking that Obama nationalize the Hostess Company. Kid you not.

Haven´t been to the site, but it apparently gives the impression that "the people" want Obama to "save twinkies".

Rush said (somewhat sarcastically) that he wouldn´t be surprised if Obama bailed out the Hostess company, and turned it over to the unions.

This is part of Obama plan to destroy small business and nationalize the name brands like Hostess and turn them over to his union thugs.
If hostess is nationalized aka bailed out -it will go the way of gm.

Little Debby stock skyrockets.

#23 Sad? You must be misinformed. They walked out on strike. The company warned them. They did not come back to work. Hostess is done negotiating.

John Galt, call your office.

#30, no, I´m not misinformed. Those facilities in Mass. that shut down were non-unionized retail outlet stores. The company informed the retail outlets that they´d close (along with everything else)if the union wouldn´t agree to a new contract. The union refused, and the non-unionized workers all lost their jobs. So, yes, I do feel sorry for them. They weren´t union, and they didn´t ask for this.

#27, that was my first thought when I heard the news, every company that fails will be "saved" by the government and turned over to the unions.

The "Detroit-ing" of America.

Nothing funny about this except

when Hostess is bought out and moves the Jobs to a Right-to-work State, eliminating Socialist Union thugs...

Granted, this MUST be done before Obama sics the DOJ on the Company like he did with GM and force a Union controlled Equity majority on the company, which will bankrupt them all over again.

I would wager that most of those in Mass. that lost their jobs voted for Ø . Massachusetts is famous for voting for liberals. That school system must be something else.

Unfortunate for everyone involved, including, I fear, the American taxpayer. But it is a lesson for those willing and able to be instructed. This is the kind of thing that is necessary to get the attention and penetrate the skulls of a substantial number of citizens, most if not all of whom are Obama supporters. Of course one painful collision with reality will not be sufficient to get the point across to most. A single instance can be explained away, blamed on someone else, or rationalized somehow to preserve the underlying fantasy structure. There will have to be many more such rude awakenings before a sufficient number of American sleepwalkers finally awake and realize that yes, Virginia, there really is something called reality. This means, among other things, that one cannot always have everything one wants and to which one feels entitled. It means that the relationship between reality and fairness, while it exists at some level, is by no means linear or 1:1.

It is impossible for the economy to recover under a tax and spend, soak the rich, regulation-crazed administration. Advanced degrees in economics are not needed to grasp this. They may even be a handicap for many.

And of course Obama´s confusion about international relations means that the latter will continue to deteriorate, violence will escalate, and wars will break out.

It is a hard, painful, costly way for American voters to learn, but there are no social promotions and no cheating in this course. If you don´t learn the lessons you just keep repeating the course.

Maybe they can apply for jobs at General Motors. Better yet, they can get jobs in the Green Energy field. Now *those* jobs will last!

/s

Obama told them they didn´t build it anyway and Obama and his minions for darn sure shut it down.

Ah poor blue state union worker. I feel so bad for you!

According to Treacher at Daily Caller, via some other site, all the principals of the company were dim bigwigs. Heh!

Obama told us just before his 2009 inauguration that he wanted to fundamentally change our country, and he´s well on his way. We may see many more bankruptcy filings by companies. I believe this person living in our WH wants to take our country down so he can rebuild it and reign as dictator in chief.

If the workers at the plants were smart (alas, there´s the fly in the ointment), they would get together with their union and make an offer to buy the company. The union has tons of money and Hostess is going to be sold to somebody so it might as well be them. I´m sure Obama would guarantee the loan.

Re 42
A union buyout with taxpayer guarantees would delay the final destruction of the company and cost taxpayers money.
Any union buyout will be chick fil a´d aka not buying government twinkles.

I think they called it a "mandate".
When you lie down with dogs, you sleep with the fleas.
Bon Appetit

What would Archie Bunker say?

And am I the only one affected by these delayed ads that are coming on in sequence? I would rather have the popups.

Nobody wins here. The union just lost the dues of 18,500 workers. The workers lost their jobs. The government just lost 18,500 taxpayers. The rest of us will be asked to support them with less money. John Galt is looking smarter every day and it´s only just begun.

Merita Bread just layed off hundreds of employees.

How´s that union working for you ? Or are they using you to keep themselves in business ?

The strike should be against unions instead of employers.

My son just told me there´s a #hostessshrugged on twitter.

Rand thought it would be oil and steel and rail. Who could have known it would be Twinkies?

I see this as part of the resistance, albeit a natural part. The motivations for being in business in this country are all but gone. If a company hits even the slightest obstacle, it makes sense to shut down and live off your savings. We´ll start seeing much more of this, I suspect.

Take a 8% pay cut for a year then going up 3% for 2 years then 1% in the 3rd year. Cut in pension 2%.

You said no to a company in bankruptcy!!
Now you all have a 100% pay cut and probably lose your pension.

The union boss still has his job as he has other suckers paying his salary.

#20 is right. I think Bain would do good to buy the brand. None of the workers would be re-hired as they are too stupid.

Stuff like this has consequences beyond just Hostess Brands. 18,500 jobs lost is just a start. All those other companies that furnish Hostess with ingredients and other supplies will be adversely affected by loss of revenue.

That Twinkie in the White House may have Just lost the Twinkie vote. Do Wookies eat those things?

Sorry, my earlier post was incorrect, here is the article about Hostess EVIL CORPORATE OWNERS. Heh!




http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-16/hostess-liquidation-curious-cast-characters-twinkie-tumbles

Own it....!

Print the names and addresses of all the Union Local leaders and the National Management of the Union, you know, so the unemployed can thank them PERSONALLY, if ya´ know whut I mean, bada bing.

This is the new tactic. Union workers have been told that Obama will pull a GM & give the company to the union. They really do not think the company is closing.

al-Qaeda still alive, Hostess dead way to go Obama union thugs

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