Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 07, 2012

If this wasn’t so true, it would be funny… but then irony is not always humorous.

Twinkies are just Wonder Bread, sugared-up breakfast cereals, soda pop, and all the other crap America maufactures to make a buck on kids and suckers…if only wholesome foods makers had as much to spend on advertising maybe Yanks would be a bit healthier.

All businessmen are by definition greedy bastards since Marx taught us that they get rich off the backs of the down-trodden. Of course there’s never any such thing as a greedy union. Geez, where did you Lefties learn this stuff? No, really…where?

pschearer;if you weren’t so busy watching faux noise, you might do some actual research and find everything in this strip today is true and actually happened. not only tht, the company emerged from bankruptcy with even MORE, debt than when it entered. what braniac does that? even GM shed debt and is now profitable. your a veritable genius for ignoring the obvious and ignoring facts. something faux news viewers are well known for.

What about just making a better product consumers will actually pay for? I can only see getting rid of Hostess as a good thing, it’s just garbage.

Don’t worry; it’s just the cliff-hanger. In the exciting conclusion, Captain Industry saves the day by giving himself a multi-million dollar “incentive” bonus before the company goes into liquidation. Evil is vanquished!

The Invisible Hand of the Free Market has spoken. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?

What amuses me is how union-bashers want to take away what unions have negotiated for, rather than asking, “How can I get me some of that?”

I always and I mean ALWAYS liked the Hostess Lemon Snack Pie. As the name suggests, it was a wonderful snack. People are often astounded when I say “lemon pie” because the apple and the cherry were far more popular and I understand. But when I’m spending my hard-earned money on a snack pie, I need it to be delicious and satisfying … and lemon never let me down.

And now that they’re folding the company (bonuses for taking the company out of business? Srsly?) International Bakeries will sell the rights to manufacture their no-longer-popular products to someone else. And the execs will get bonuses for that, too.

The greatest tragedy off the closing the demise of Hostess Twinkies is that it comes at the precise moment when pot has been legalized in Washington state !

that is complete and utter bolderdash

@navy.bean – To portray us as lazy and entitled here gives an innacurate picture of MOST of us. I work my arse off, and so do 99% of the people I work with.

Don’t forget the amazing debt Hostess had. They were “Romneyed” by investors who took them from profitable to debt-laden in a decade.

Yeah, that’s where the sugar of the sponge cake would carmelize. That was the best.

My 2cents worth…Maybe I’m just too immature to accept the fact that other people, better than myself, have the right to push me around but I prefer to work with (or for) small businesses where, if I have a complaint, I can go directly to the owner. The worker/contractor who has to deal with a big business rarely has access to those who make company policy. Workers can form a union that is powerful enough to gain access to those decision makers but the union, itself, becomes another lumbering giant in pursuit of its own interests, often distinct from those of the workers who comprise it. The labor union is an imperfect solution to a real problem and that problem is that as companies get larger, they become less responsive to the needs of the market and the society in which they are embedded. Small businesses are dynamic, responsive to the market and a generally positive influence in their communities. As businesses get larger, they become a force unto themselves, distorting the dynamics of a free market and creating a situation in which unions are actually better than the alternative.

not sure ask the people in twinsburg ohio when the union let them close the plant so they can keep the less productive plants in mich open

Alas, what more can be said. Yes this strip specifies Hostess, which has put 18,500 workers out of work producing junk food over a labor dispute, while asking bankruptcy court to provide upper management with $1.75 million in bonuses. I never liked Twinkies and DingDongs anyway. And YOU, pschearer, seem to delight in stirring the cauldron. Yeah blame it on the unions. I’ve heard that one too many times.

I haven’t bought or eaten any Twinkies for decades, and now I’m wondering if maybe I should’ve.

Hi Night-Gaunt49. I should have a clever response but can think of nothing.