The Mets and most other teams in baseball not drawing well because of the weather, the economy and perhaps the bloated prices of the luxury-box age.
✒Privatised companies – energy, the railways – are presently gouging us for everything they can get, via bloated prices or taxpayers' subsidies or both.
I knew right away that the tickets were never directly released and if I wanted to go, I had to pay the bloated prices.
Obviously they identify much more with rich doctors and the people who profit from the bloated prices charged in the United States by drug companies and medical equipment providers than with the seniors who are dependent on Social Security and Medicare.
If, say, you have a family emergency and need to travel urgently, they know you have almost no choice but to pay a bloated price for a "walk-up" ticket that bears no resemblance to the costs they are incurring.
This line of complaint called to mind the Newton, Apple's pen-based personal organizer that was ahead of its time but carried a bloated price tag to its doom.
Actually, it's worse than dull, because Netflix reportedly spent $90m on it and the desperation for a hit that justifies that bloated price tag is evident in every frame.
In Tennessee and Kentucky, bloated prices have little to do with processing the application, but rather the state revenue they were designed to produce.
Given today's aberrant prices it would be a stroke of courageous public policy for the Energy Department to announce the release of 100 million barrels from the reserve to counter what is clearly an artificial and bloated price of oil.
Alas, American and Canadian customers seem to have been hypnotized into a kind of learned helplessness where they just sit there and silently accept locked phones, bloated Kafkaesque pricing plans, insane roaming charges, Android phones stuffed with crapware, and two- or even three-year locked-in contracts.
