It’s hard to write a decent obituary for the Twinkie today because the issue seems to get bogged down not in the mourning of the loss of jobs for some 18,500 souls with Hostess Brands but a debate between the sugar is death faction and the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness faction.

CNN Money and other news outlets reported that Hostess has asked a federal bankruptcy court for permission to close its doors, citing a strike by bakers protesting a new contract imposed on them.

Never mind that jobs will be lost and iconic brands such as the Twinkie and Wonder Bread could eventually disappear from the landscape of American pop culture, let’s begin celebrating the death by calling for further regulations on what we eat and drink.

We’ve already seen this year how Czar Bloomberg in New York is limiting the size of sodas we have a right to drink and now the buzz is how the golden sponge cake hiding a cream filling is tantamount to death by slow torture.

Comments when I posted the CNN link to my Facebook page this morning ranged from limiting sugar content and intake to a hateful, swift farewell kick in Twinkie the Kid’s soft, spongy back side.

My thoughts were with those losing their jobs and the place the cakes have earned in American brand consciousness and not more government regulation in our lives.

As my favorite television Libertarian Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation said, “The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that's beautiful.”

While it’s not exactly beautiful, there’s truth to the comment. The day the government puts warning labels on Little Debbie and Oreos or mandates that the sugar content in our favorite desserts is limited, that’s the day we become a society without freedom.

I don’t have a valid answer to some of the questions posed to me, like what about the increased amounts of money we have to pay for people with self-destructive habits.

My best answer for that is with the way the system is now the good have to pay for the sins of the bad until there is some reform within Medicare or Medicaid or making it private or hitting unscrupulous insurance companies that raise rates often without warning with heavy fines and punishment.

The problem is there will always be irresponsible people in the world and I don’t see that changing. If the movie Idiocracy is any indication it doesn’t get any better.

With my hopes of writing a decent obituary for the Twinkie quashed, my hope is some company will see fit to continue the tradition of an American icon; those who indulge in the snacks not overdo it and those who want more government involvement in their lives think twice and mourn the loss of jobs during the approaching holiday season — Lance Martin