'Hostess story...has everything to do with the Enron-ization & Bain-ization of the American economy'

[Cleita]

12. If you were born in 1954, you have no idea what laws were in place then. I started to notice things

changing and business practices becoming corrupt in the seventies. I believe a lot of laws protecting workers and their pensions were rescinded during Nixon and then the Reagan administrations that protected me when I entered the work force. I started noticing that I was no longer getting time and half for every minute worked after 8 hours in a work day, nor vacation guarantees for time worked and just a lot of stuff that labor laws once covered and then were no longer covered by the 1980s. No one even offered pensions by then unless you were executive class or union. It seems that gangster business practices had won out by the end of the century.