Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The Hostess Shuffle: Feds put the ‘dough’ in this doughnut

The Hostess Shuffle: Feds put the ‘dough’ in this doughnut - Daily Inter Lake: Frank:
"This is where the devil starts to look a bit more like Jason in a hockey mask instead of a nice wholesome inviting Hostess Twinkie.
You see, according to the Department of Labor website, the Trade Adjustment Assistance program is actually money that Congress has allocated for “trade-affected workers who have lost their jobs as a result of increased imports or shifts in production out of the United States.”
But wait a minute!
Didn’t Hostess go out of business in a well-publicized blaze of glory because union workers refused to accept concessions that would have allowed the bakery to stay open?
Well, yeah, but in a brazenly Orwellian rewrite of history, the Department of Labor announced that “an investigation found that increased imports of baked products contributed importantly to the company’s sales declines and worker separations.”
“Importantly.”
That’s a nice vague word, isn’t it?"

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