If anyone is enteprenureal enough they could see the Hostess shutdown as an opportunity.
I am a Texan by choice from Philly. For some one this is an opportunity to set up some distribution of “Tastykakes” to Texas and all Hostess places.
“We the people” website (White House site) now soliciting support for nationalizing Twinkies. Just heard this on Rush.
In my humble opinion, this qualifies as among the top hundred posts ever to grace the pages of Free Republic. Everything you wrote is accurate to a T and your conclusions are unassailable.
The labor union movement in the United States is a direct result of foreign socialist influences operating here. Believe it or not, Hollywood leftist Warren Beatty's Reds film from the 1981 depicts this properly with the rise of the IWW, known as the Wobblies. The whole gang that accelerated unionism in the 1800's and 1900's is a rogue's gallery of evil: Eugene V. Debs, Big Bill Haywood, the foreign-born Samuel Gompers, socialist Walter Reuther and many others of that ilk.
Perhaps the worst president in our nation's history, Franklin Diablo Roosevelt gave fuel to Big Labor with the vile Wagner Act, giving unions and their corrupt bosses unprecedented power.
It's long past time for unions to be abolished. I contend that RICO laws can be brought down hard on Big Labor to put every last one of them into the graveyard of history. Unionism is tantamount to an extortion racket. The Mafia has been defanged over the years and the same aggressive approach must be taken to forever exterminate the blight of unionism. When unions are extinguished, the light of American Free Enterprise will shine brightly. Watch our economic engine come roaring back when the stranglehold of unionism perishes!
Unions are dead. In the USA 94% of the private work force is NON union.
Unions are going the way of the dinosaurs. In today’s global economy, those with skills and technical expertise will be paid a premium. Manual labor is expendable and is slowly being replaced with automation. Unions have held on only so long because their forced-dues give them political clout.
I am conservative, but I disagree with this author.
Unions are not a socialist concept primarily. They are, rather, a concept adhered to by Christians as a balancing force between management and capital to insure a living wage for the worker and a reasonable return on investment for capital.
That unions goer too powerful and need to be reined in and that capital gets too powerful and need to be made pay just wages is obvious, but unions have their place.
I just glanced over your posting history. Blog Pimp much?
Brother that's a massive understatement. Historically, we owe the strong Communist Party USA to the unions that took seed here. In the 1930s+ the FBI almost stamped them out.
Now our cracker-jack communist president has brought them back and given them what was General Motors and several deposits of stimulus monies....all to aid the unions in massively transforming America into a socialist state.
?Have you begun to miss the old America where you actually had a job and paid your own way? I do.
How true!! All of you should DEMAND RIGHT TO WORK laws in your states...
Another union made disaster in the news, that the media avoid is the USPS.
USPS unions:
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) part of the AFL-CIO
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, a division of LIUNA part of the AFL-CIO
American Postal Workers Union (APWU) part of the AFL-CIO
National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA)
Plus there are probably unions for the maintenance and custodians of the USPS facilites large and small. Unions for the transportation/distribution long haul and short haul of mail. etc....
The “efficiency” of the USPS can be illustrated by a recent experience my parents went through.
The local 911 emergency department of the county sheriff took it upon themselves to change my parents street address. This became my paretns’ new mailing address. No physical change happened changed address on the mail box etc.
My parents filled out a change of address form. Now, even though the only real change was the street number address, not the physical location of my parents hous all mail with the “old address” on it has to go across state to the nearest distribution center to have the new address affixed on it, aka adress change label, then it is sent to the same location i.e. mail box. To add insult to this sheriff’s 911 department induced change of address, the regular postal carrier went on vacation and tols the carrier subbing while he was on vacation to hold all forwarded mail until he returned from vacation. So all bills, checks, bank statements et al. were on hold without my parents agreement or knowledge. My mom luckily, after too days of nothing but junk mail call the USPS 800 number and after 30 minutes of phone gymnastics talked with the regionel carrer who undid the vacation hold, but was to prevent the delay of forwarded mail from ahving to go across the state to the closest distribution center, thus delay receipt of the mail by my paretns for 7 to 14 days.
So just add all the extra cost the USPS incurss and one gets the idea of waste. This doesn’t even take into account the “pensions/benefits” that the USPS is failing to pay to the tune of over $15 billion this year so far.
Unions are dinosaurs 100 years past the usefullness.
Another union made disaster in the news, that the media avoid is the USPS.
USPS unions:
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) part of the AFL-CIO
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, a division of LIUNA part of the AFL-CIO
American Postal Workers Union (APWU) part of the AFL-CIO
National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA)
Plus there are probably unions for the maintenance and custodians of the USPS facilites large and small. Unions for the transportation/distribution long haul and short haul of mail. etc....
The “efficiency” of the USPS can be illustrated by a recent experience my parents went through.
The local 911 emergency department of the county sheriff took it upon themselves to change my parents street address. This became my paretns’ new mailing address. No physical change happened changed address on the mail box etc.
My parents filled out a change of address form. Now, even though the only real change was the street number address, not the physical location of my parents house all mail with the “old address” on it has to go across state to the nearest distribution center to have the new address affixed on it, aka adress change label, then it is sent to the same location i.e. mail box. To add insult to this sheriff’s 911 department induced change of address, the regular postal carrier went on vacation and told the carrier subbing while he was on vacation to hold all forwarded mail until he returned from vacation. So all bills, checks, bank statements et al. were on hold without my parents agreement or knowledge. My mom luckily, after two days of nothing but junk mail call the USPS 800 number and after 30 minutes of phone gymnastics talked with the regional carrer who undid the vacation hold, but was unable to prevent the delay of forwarded mail from having to go across the state to the closest distribution center, thus delay receipt of the mail by my parents for 7 to 14 days.
So just add all the extra cost the USPS incurrs and one gets the idea of waste. This doesn’t even take into account the “pensions/benefits” that the USPS is failing to pay to the tune of over $15 billion this year so far.
Unions are dinosaurs 100 years past the usefullness.