I know a dozen or so Hostess delivery guys, some for 20 years. (I deliver beverages) It’s sad to see people you known for many years become unemployed. In this case it wasn’t Obama but the union pension funding that sunk the company, along with the chain stores operating their own bakeries and stiff competition from non union bakeries (Little Debbie, Bimbo etc..) The local radio stations also made much fun about the twinkie loss etc...not much sympathy of the 100 or so local people now out of work.
When people are yukking it up about Hostess closing, making jokes about how much they hated twinkies anyway, they obviously aren’t even considering how much a large town employer shutting down will also affect the local economy. All those jobless people won’t be spending nearly as much money at other businesses, so they also suffer losses. This is not a laughing matter.