# Hostess  out of business; 18,500 jobs to be lost

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**Created:** [November 16, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hostess-out-of-business-18-500-jobs-to-be-lost/265503 "2012-11-16T05:34:59Z")
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### Author: ![KillerBlackbird](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/killerblackbird/32/6525_2.png) [@KillerBlackbird](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KillerBlackbird)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hostess-out-of-business-18-500-jobs-to-be-lost/265503/22 "2012-11-16T10:04:15Z")

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> [@fs 1991 camaro spun rod bearin 900 w/o rims/system heads intake carb](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1991-camaro-spun-rod-bearin-900-w-o-rims-system-heads-intake-carb/49653/70):
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> drop those numbers lower and see how you feel, say a factory worker whom assembles things with his hands makes 35k a year ( which i think is a more accurate number ) and the guy in the office overseeing 20 people makes 55k. what one would you pick if you had the option to do so.

> [@4th of July](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/4th-of-july/51057/27):
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> I’ve personally taken a 40k+ year hit and am a much happier person and plain old in a better mood.

:tbu

We all can’t be doctors or lawyers.  
If you have 8 million kids that graduate college every year and only 1 million job openings every other year, its a good chance someone will have to do something else.

As I’ve said before, we need our manufacturing jobs back from China.

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