Screw him! Poor ME!
A few times a year, I HAVE to have a
Hostess Cupcake , well, actually two, because that's how they are packaged. Although they are a mere shadow of their former selves - smaller, coconut oil replaced with a lesser substance to satisfy the howling wolves of "healthy food"! Still... gotta have one!
However, just as valuable parts of General Motors would have been purchased by someone had that company allowed to have been taken into bankruptcy proceedings, SOMEONE will buy the name
Hostess and such things as
Twinkie,
Cupcake,
Ding Dongs, etc., just as the viable baking facilities, retail facilities, etc WILL be purchased by SOMEone - Bimbo, whomever.
That is how it is supposed to work, not government intervention.