Hostess snack cakes recently filed for bankruptcy after decades of service, meaning twinkies and ding-dongs could be on the endangered snack list soon. The company said it "is not competitive, primarily due to legacy pension and medical benefit obligations and restrictive work rules."

See, companies who don't make killer profits but just good old fashioned American goodness usually don't survive in an economy like this with higher taxes and government regulation. We eat Soviet made Gruel because that's whats practical!

The economic ideology proposed by some on the left is not focused on improving the economy today, but many years from now based on a rise of the lower classes predicated on social re distribution of wealth. I hear one of the feminazis on MSNBC point out that it's NOT "a SHINING city upon a hill", it's just a "city upon a hill."

That's what they want--a society where all of the grand and unique facets of life that people enjoy are watered down to better suit the whole and are replaced with standardized modern (i.e. strictly efficient-non grandiose) systems that don't produce great things in this country but things that are just good enough.