Saturday, November 17, 2012

Twinkie Defense for Governor Christie


When the media has nothing worthwhile to report, they have to ask inane questions to invite ridicule or shame.

Such was the case yesterday (November 16), when Governor Christie ducked a question about the final bankruptcy and closure of Hostess Foods, the brand name that manufactures Twinkies, Yankee Doodles, and Devil Dogs.

"I'm on ‘Saturday Night Live’ enough," he said. "You think you're getting me behind this microphone having me talk about Twinkies?"

Instead of nibbling the New Jersey Governor about snack foods, the mainstream media and the country ought to take stock of what caused the eighty-year company to go bankrupt. Rather than face a crippling strike over the restructure and reduction of cream-filling pension and benefits reductions, the corporate leadership decided that they would have to “let them eat someone else’s cake” and close their doors. Now poorer families will no longer be able to purchase five loaves for the price of one, and 18,000 Hostess workers are unemployed.

The bread company filed for bankruptcy twice already, yet the unions who served the company refused to acquiesce on salary and pension cuts. That bakery spat is one example of the public pie-fight that is eating away at our states. However, unlike the CEO of Hostess Foods, Governor Christie had the guts (no pun intended) to stand up to the unions and demand that they restructure New Jersey’s pensions and benefits formulas.
Instead of making fat jokes, the media should thank Christie for cutting the public sector unions’ fat.

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