David Glass reaches for yet more brass ring

In an outrageous show of arrogance or chutzpah or both, our own Major League Baseball pretenders, the Kansas City Royals, without doubt lead by their uber-wealthy and uber-greedy owner, former Wal-Mart executive David Glass, announced today they will be raising prices for tickets for games in next year's season.

From the Star, today:

Royals' Notes: Prices going up for season tickets

It’s going to cost more next year to take in a game at Kauffman Stadium.

The Royals are instituting an increase in season-ticket prices for 2013 for virtually all seats except those in the ritzy Crown Club, which are actually dropping by $5 a ticket. (As usual, see link at bottom.)

Can you believe the chutzpah?

With the crappy, nearly obscene losing season they put on this year?

And then the season is JUST OVER and they announce this?

And it goes up for everyone--except for the people who can afford it, the wealthy for whom their price goes down.

What unmitigated gall.

To the Hall Family--won't you please, please buy this team and keep it here and make it the winner it could be?

Please??

This is just one more, though glaring reason why we need "No More Glass": http://www.no-more-glass.com

Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/05/3849769/royals-notes-prices-going-up-for.html

What do the US Postal Service and The Kansas City Star have in common?

Unfortunately, the cost of both is going/has gone up and the service/product keep getting worse. What does that tell you? Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/postal-service-cuts-will-mean-slower-mail/2011/12/05/gIQAroYfVO_blog.html#TID=&TData=

K-k-k-kill the C-C-C-Co-op Option

I mean really.

The whole talk of creating these co-ops, for health care, instead of giving us what we really need and what will really work—a government option for health insurance---is absurd.

There are so many reasons why co-ops aren’t the answer and won’t truly work.

For one, it would take millions, if not billions of dollars to create them all.

Where, exactly, is that going to come from? It won’t be private money.

Second, there is no way enough co-ops would or could be created to cover all Americans. Many millions of rural people would end up with the same lack of coverage the country is experiencing now. Even places like rural Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska would no doubt end up without coverage, let alone the more isolated parts of the country like Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.

Forget it. It’s insane. It’s a total non-starter.

So let’s be done with this whole notion.

I think there is a high likelihood that the conversation of health insurance co-ops may have been started by insurance companies so they could maintain their control of the market.

Unless the federal government steps in and gives a true nationwide option of health care insurance for all Americans, the insurance corporations will maintain their stranglehold on health insurance in the US—and on the sharp increases they’ve been foisting on us for decades.

Link to story:
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/prairie-health-care-companion/index.html?th&emc=th