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Inside the Hostess Bankery – A Hostess Employee Tell-All

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Via Crooks & Liars, the Daily Kos, a story that reads like a horror movie script. A Hostess Employee Tells All About CEO Gutting Pensions, Pay Scales.

Amazingly, Washington did not offer Hostess a bailout. This discriminatory policy may be a constitutional violation — denial of equal protection of the laws. Since the onset of the financial crisis, the government has decided that some systemically important financial institutions are too big to fail. Why, any fair-minded person will ask, was Hostess not TBTF? How can the American government let an 82-year-old brand can die?

Well first, there is the apparently failed oversight “accounting error”:

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Wall Street Killed Twinkies – Not the Unions

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Over-Leveraged Acquisitions, Mergers, and Bad Wall Street Investments Killed Twinkies – Not the Unions. Another Death by a Hedge fund.

If it wasn’t obvious after the Wisconsin tirade of union abuse that big business wants to bust all unions – it certainly should be now.  Looking at any company’s or municipality’s financial debacle you will usually find a link to bad Wall Street advice or investments. This is certainly true for Hostess Brands.

Founded in 1930 by Ralph L. Nafziger, the sad story of the demise of Hostess Brands, formerly known as Interstate Bakeries Corporation, and its bankruptcies stem from more recent bad management and investment decisions which created the loss of its employee pension funds – a problem that our government fails miserably to protect and properly regulate. Continue reading →