Hostess: Union Rules were Harder to Digest than Twinkies

Hostess: Union Rules were Harder to Digest than Twinkies

reprint from : Courtesy of Dr. Paul Price

Did union workers simply get their 'Just Desserts' for backing Hostess into a corner with too many unreasonable demands? Consider the evidence.

Union workers have now completed their mission. 18,500 jobs are gone forever.

The national labor bosses stood firm. Labor leaders are proud they stood up to those nasty ‘suits’ [see Entourage for definition] who refused to run a money-losing business simply to continue paying salaries and benefits.

Hostess posted a $341 million loss in 2011 on revenues of about $2.5 billion. Contributing to those 2011 losses:

• $52 million in Workers’ Comp Claims
• Dealing with 372 Distinct Collective-Bargaining Contracts
• Administration of 80 Separate Health and Benefits Plans
• Funding and Tending to 40 Discrete Pension Plans
• $31 million in year-over-year increases in wages and health care benefits for 2012 v. 2011

Uncounted in the above numbers were the outrageous union-imposed rules that made for a too-high-to-bear cost of sales:

• No truck could carry both bread and snacks even when going to the same location
• Drivers were not permitted to load their own trucks
• Workers who loaded bread were not allowed to also load snacks
• Bringing products from back rooms to shelves required another set of union employees
• Multi-Employer pension obligations made Hostess liable for other, previously bankrupted, retirement plan contributions from employees that never worked for Hostess at all

America has come to this. The only defense against insane union demands is the willingness to walk away and close shop.

With General Motors and Chrysler we found that even that remedy wouldn’t work.

 

 

Mass Exodus of Jobs in America

  In order to create a new job a few things must come into play in order for this to happen.

1.  Healthy and growing economy
2. Augmentation of New Business
3. Expanding business to match consumer demand
4. Business Owner confidence in expansion

  So if you think about it business starts with Entrepreneurship and grows because of supply and demand from the consumer.  Government plays a key role because it will directly effect a business by regulation or deregulation. 
The best example of this in our history is during Ronald Reagan's presidency.  Reagan enacted lower marginal tax rates in conjunction with simplified income tax codes and continued deregulation.
What this means is that the Government got out of the way of Business to grow and prosper which actually created more jobs, more millionaires, and greater consumer and business confidence.  Lower taxes created more money for the Government as well because consumers and business had more money and didnt look for ways to evade taxes.  

Remember when you first got cable t.v. and were able to watch MTV or HBO ?  Stop and think for on minute and understand that the cable t.v. BOOM was because of one simple thing Reagan enacted...  DEREGULATION of the telephone and cable line.  In 1984, Congress passed the Cable Communications Policy Act. This created millions of new jobs and new inventions as well as new business and the American people were the beneficiary of deregulation.  It was so easy to get a job during the 1980's and 1990's.

What is going on in America today that is making it so hard to get a job ? 

1. Corporate bankruptcy has soared during Obama administration and no net growth.
2. New business filings are non-exsistant
3. Consumer demand is down due to many factors including 15% unemployment 
4. Obama HATES business owners and ran against them in his reelection and in the first week of his reelection he enacted over 6,100 new regulations.  

We need to get back to what the founding father believed which was small federal government and that the power lies with the states. They revolted against Britain because of regulations and taxes and when you have a federal government that is spending deficit of $120 billion dollars in the month of October 2012 that's just absolutely insane. 

Lesson of 2012: Propaganda Works!

A new Pew Poll came out today that says if America falls off the "Fiscal Cliff," 53% will blame the GOP (Republicans) to only 29% blaming President Obama.

First of all remember the difference between reality and perception. We are talking about a party that let their president add $4.8 trillion to the national deficit in only 3 years, more than Bush did in 8 years. The economic crisis started when Democrats took over the real power in America - both the House of Representatives and Senate of Congress, in 2006. Meanwhile the downward spiral looks to be slowing finally, thanks largely to the sweeping victories of the GOP (particularly the Tea Party) in the 2010 election, which gave the House back to the party which I thought everyone knew was the more fiscally responsible.

I should think again.

It turns out, whatever lie NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Hollywood, teachers, professors, labor unions, musicians, the NY Times, community organizers or any other entity that makes up the propaganda arm of the progressive movement tell you or your children, IS REAL.

This Pew Poll just tells me two things: #1 the false propaganda worked. #2 the GOP needs to spend all of their time, energy, resources and money into taking back the schools to stop the indoctrination of our children and implement a program to properly educate adults not only of the righteousness of conservatism, but the evils of socialism.

And don't listen to the simpletons on the news networks saying "the GOP has a demographics problem." That is just code for, "the indoctrination of graduates of the last 20 years is finally paying dividends." We have a perception problem. Re-educating them is now required, but let's prevent the Cancer of America in the first place, not just administer chemotherapy. We just have to prey Socialism in America is not stage 4.

Here is a guy named Toots Sweet that points out that our ability to get the message out is so bad compared to the Left that we are left with no other choice but to "get out of their way" and "let them sink themselves" by letting them raise taxes and spend like drunken sailors until America is collapsed. His video:

I really hope it doesn't collapse but if we can't get our message out, Toots is right - we must let them see for themselves what communism does.

America has lost her way.

  As I look back at the last few months leading up to the election of 2012 I am perplexed as to how the fuck the majority of the America people could not for the life of themselves see that the emperor has no clothes.  He was elected on hope and change and the promise of a new day and the people bought it hook line and sinker.  He ran his second campaign based on hate and revenge and the people bought it hook line and sinker because they wouldn't have bought the old message.  Why wouldn't they have bought the old message ?  The simple answer, "cause it never came true", it was all smoke and mirrors.  There was never any hope and change unless you consider moving America to a communist state.  We now live in a country where the majority of people feel like victims and that the government owes them a life and that hard work and perseverance will never pay off.  We live in a world where ignorant children think that the way you make it big in this world is by accident or coincidence.  Where American idol, America's got talent or Britain's got talent is how you make it big and none of the winners worked their ass off to be who they are. It is sick to think that the media in America is also pushing this as reality.  Ive lost faith in the American people to do what is right not what you want but what is best for the world not your individual selfishness.  Shame on everyone of you fools that voted to line your pockets with hard working Americans money.  Damn you thieves  damn you.