They only get what they deserve

A few years back I wrote about how Hostess had used its bankruptcy proceeding to a) seriously enrich its executives, and b) destroy the union that made its products.  So it was with a certain amount of glee that I noticed while grocery shopping this week that Hostess is recalling numerous products (710,000 packages to be exact) because they may have been contaminated with peanuts.

One can only wonder if this would have happened had Hostess had a work force that was paid a decent wage and actually gave a shit about its products--which may well result in countless lawsuits from those allergic to said peanuts.

Just another in a long line of examples that show how little Corporate America actually cares for Americans unless its to siphon off our tax dollars for Corporate Welfare.

With apologies to any who may have suffered physically because of Hostess' greed, Schadenfreude is sometimes a beautiful thing.

Peace,
emaycee

Shit-kies

Knowing everything I know about what the management of Hostess did to overcompensate its incompetent leadership while forcing concessions from its unions before finally just shutting them down, the news yesterday that Hostess products will soon be back on our grocery store shelves was enough to make a maggot puke.

Quite frankly (and there are few people on the planet who enjoy sweets as much as I do), there's a better chance I'll spend $20 on a shit sandwich than that I'd ever spend another nickel on Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, or fucking Ho-Hos.

Peace,
emaycee

Apple and cherry pies

I have something of a sweet tooth (and a gut to match it) and have, over the years, bought a Hostess product or two.  I never much cared for Twinkies (boring to the taste buds is being kind) and Ding Dongs, Ho-hos, and Zingers have all gotten considerably worse over the years.  But their cupcakes (both the chocolate and the orange) and especially their apple and cherry pies were quite the junk food glory.

Yesterday Hostess announced that it is shuttering its doors after 80 years, costing over 18,000 people their jobs.  The usual suspects--Fox News, conservative media, the brain dead--are doing their best to spin this as the fault of a union refusing to accept a new contract.  In reality, it was a company asking its workers to completely capitulate, make wages that wouldn't support their families, while vastly overpaying their executives (their CEO was recently given a raise that was an increase of over 200% of his previous salary despite the company's financial troubles) whose mismanagement was responsible for much of the financial trouble the company had.  It was another vulture capitalist deal, where investors got their money and then the investment firm shit all over the workers.

I'm sure that my sweet tooth will find other junk food delights but you have to wonder how many more times American workers will get screwed while a few profit greatly financially before they wise up and the bombs--literally--start exploding.

It won't be class warfare--it will be survival.

Peace,
emaycee