This is the Obama way. Same kind of thing he has done over nad over. Reward those that distroy and distroy those that build. Its the anti-Americian way that Democrats thrive for.

This country has nobody to blame but itself for this disgusting situation!

Throw your job out the window and slide right onto the public dole....the new normal.

Disgusting. There are not words to describe what is happening in this country.

They are getting paid unemployment for less then half of what the made working. Those benefits will run out soon enough and they will not have any jobs to go to. They lose.

Union That Helped Bring Down
Hostess Gets to Snack on
Taxpayers´ Marrow

I doubt if the bakers at Twinkies were asking for the world. When was the last time you bought a Twinkie? The company´s corporate leadership may not have been making the right decisions, who knows? Are we to judge by what little the media tells us? We do know this, despite what Bernanke says, there is rampant inflation. Just go to the grocery store, restaurant or gas station, or rent an apartment to figure that out. So keeping wages frozen is a ongoing paycut. American workers are getting paid with an ever-shrinking dollar in this high regulation, high tax, crony-capitalism economy that Obama, Reid and Bernanke are running. This mess starts at the top.

What exactly are they going to retrain as? Is there a job classification that´s hiring alot? They´re getting union scale unemployment and a some worthless "retraining". And they´ll be worse off that if they´d kept their jobs - I´d bet on it.

Studies show that that´s exactly the case. THe program is worthless and leaves workers worse off than had they never been laid off. The primary difference is that they get lavish benefits compared to other laid off workers. They get special privileges. Hostess bakers made as much as $22 an hour. Average bakers make $11 an hour. Try keeping a company afloat and competitive with a payroll of twice what competitors are paying.