Another wing nut... http://www.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-psycho-blames-obama-killing-twinkies.html
Rush Limbaugh Goes Psycho and Blames Obama for Killing Twinkies By: Jason EasleyNovember 16th, 2012see more posts by Jason Easley<http://www.politicususa.com/author/jasoneasley> <http://ww1.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/twinkie-the-kid.jpg> Rush Limbaugh is blaming President Obama for the fact that Hostess could not come to an agreement with its striking employees and decided lay off 18,500 employees by closing the plant. In Limbaughs mind, Obama has Twinkie blood on his hands. Transcript from Rush Limbaugh<http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/11/16/ding_dong_18_500_hostess_jobs_dead> : *Rush Limbaugh: Look, here Im already being asked, Are you gonna talk about Hostess? Yeah, Im gonna talk about Hostess. You know what, 18,500 people gone, Hostess Twinkies, Ding Dongs, shut down. Some people might think its a buy opportunity if you want to get in the Ding Dong business. But folks, if you need an indication that the Democrats will never compromise on anything, look at this. Hostess is going out of business because of unions. Now, thats 18,500 jobs. You would think in this economy that somebody might want to show the ability to compromise if only to fool people. They wont even compromise on this.* * * * Unions are the Democrat Party. Trumka is at the White House again today. Wont even compromise to save 18,500 jobs. Are you kidding me? Obama couldnt step in here even for the optics of it? I mean, yesterday he saved New York. Today he could save Ding Dongs. He could save Twinkies, except at the White House Michelles probably celebrating, cause this is just rotten, no good food to her. But, see, I think they wanted this, folks. I think they wanted Hostess bye-bye. And you know why? They wanted this to happen because this is just going to create more dependents on unions and the government. Its just gonna create more dependents. So this is all fine with Barry. * *I know nobody understands me. Im doing this program with a whole different mind-set now. Snerdleys in there panicking. Im saying mind-set. As I do this program Im imagining how Im being heard by all these uneducated, ill-educated, maleducated young people, and its fun, and Im sure that theyre throwing daggers at their radio because they just heard me criticize Obama on this Hostess thing. Anyway its a funny thing. Its actually a build-out on some of the things that we were discussing yesterday about the battles that we face really being cultural as well as, if not more than, politics. Anyway, the Hostess thing is what it is. Its gone. We knew it was coming. It just illustrates theres no desire to compromise.* Limbaughs blaming of Obama and unions leaves out a couple of important facts Via KCUR<http://www.kcur.org/post/hostess-bakery-workers-go-back-work-or-company-dies> , *At the Hostess plant in Lenexa, where 200 people work, there was a rotating picket line. While some Lenexa workers crossed the line to keep their jobs, their striking colleagues said they could not accept further concessions. The striking workers described what they said were dramatic compromises after Hostess first declared bankruptcy in 2004. Theyd taken a pay cut, paid $10 to the company each month out of their paychecks, and seen decreases in their pensions . The striking workers said they couldnt afford any more concessions. The company never gained profitability, and in January of this year it declared bankruptcy a second time. After contract negotiations with the BCTGM union, management presented a contract with an 8 percent pay cut, and a decrease of about 30 percent in the benefits package. That led workers in Lenexa to walk off the job last week. Thousands of Hostess laborers around the country followed suit.* * * What Limbaugh is suggesting is that President Obama should have interfered with the free market in order to save a twice bankrupted company that wasnt profitable. Rush is saying that Obama is guilty of killing Twinkies and Ding Dongs because he would not force workers to accept more crippling concessions to benefit management. Hostess is dead due to Bain style management that has decided to maximize their profits by liquidating the company. In short, the job creators decided to make more money for themselves by killing 18,500 jobs. If President Obama would have intervened, Limbaugh would have called him a socialist who hates the free market. Since Obama didnt intervene, he is a socialist who is trying to create more dependents on the federal government. Either way, Rush Limbaughs psycho interpretation of The Day The Twinkies Died is complete and utter nonsense. 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