TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE TWINKIE

I might have eaten eight packages of Twinkies, and a few of those cupcake thingies in my lifetime. 

An interesting food product, Twinkies. They contain no milk and thus have a shelf life of about 27 days (not the years often credited to them).

I also read that if you freeze Twinkies and then microwave them for 45 seconds they will explode!

Twinkies and their brothers and sisters from Hostess could never be considered anything more than an artificial bakery item from Hostess meant for snacking.

Then there was the Wonder Bread division of the company.

Wonder Bread had the distinction of being both tasteless and able to be rolled up in a tiny ball, placed on a hair hook and used to catch mullet. 

Hostess Brands and its beloved bread and snack cake products dates back to the late 1800s. They are one of the largest wholesale bakers and distributors of fresh-baked bread and sweet goods in the U.S.

A strike by The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, protesting a new contract imposed on them has brought them to their fiscal knees. The union represents about 5,000 Hostess employees

Hostess' nearly 18,500 workers will lose their jobs as the company shuts 33 bakeries and 565 distribution centers nationwide, as well as 570 outlet stores.

"We deeply regret the necessity of today's decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike," said CEO Gregory Rayburn in a statement.

Let's understand that the purpose of going into business is to make money. Nobody goes into business, with its costs, risks and headaches, for the purpose of losing money. Nobody.

If a business cannot make money (read: profit), it cannot stay in business, and that's just the way it is.

The time came for Hostess to offer its employees a new contract. The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union did not like the terms of the new contract, so they went on strike.

While on strike, they used intimidation to attempt to influence the rest of Hostess' employees to stop work as well.

Employees were told by the company that the contract offered was the best that could be done in this day of economic turmoil consistent with maintaining a decent bottom line (profit).

The union refused to give in, and thus some 5,000 people were responsible for the unemployment of some 13,500 other people.

That's certainly fair, isn't it?

Actually, while many union thugs and liberal/leftists might think so, it isn't.

It is sad that the union led motto of, "I want what I want, when I want it, where I want it, how I want it no matter what and if you don't give it to me I'll close you down" has resulted in the bankruptcy of this venerable company.

This is one more example of how much evil power unions hold and how they are absolutely not ashamed to use that power, even if it means the loss of jobs for thousands of innocent people.

The problem with this country is not the government (although they are no help at all). The problem is that, led BY the government, we have lost the heart and soul of the nation.

Until we can change the hearts and minds of individuals, this country will never be what it was designed to be and will continue its slide into the economic abyss.

(And did you notice that President BO (the amateur president) did not rush to send millions of tax dollars to Hostess because they were "too big to fail?")

After all, it's only 18,500 people.