Hostess Foods Files for Bankruptcy

Like many Lowell residents, I have not touched a Hostess Brands food product in years.

I never really enjoyed the paucity of gooey goodness in ratio to the dry cake around it. It seemed to me that the company invested too much in what was around the cake instead of investing in its core -- the cream filling.

This problem appears to have affected to the whole company, too. Unlike other bread corporations in the United States, Hostess Brands' employees were unionized, which caused the company's pension and medical benefits costs to skyrocket.

Businesses' first priority is to provide a product or a service. When their profit margin gets eaten away by greedy unions who want nothing but cream and cake, then the whole company crumbles.

Let the bittersweet end of this sweet company be a reminder to all: unions unchecked will undo any business or any state, and the last thing that this country needs is one more corporation going under because of pension liabilities.