In the interest of full disclosure I am not a big sports fan. I can’t imagine paying to see somebody play a sport … Strange right? I’ve even turned down free tickets to watch men fight and spit at one another, I think it was called hockey.
That’s why I was amazed, nay flabbergasted at a morning news report about people standing in line to buy Rangers tickets for the Stanley Cup game. The tickets were $500 and up, that’s five hundred dollars.
Several people interviewed were asked how much they were willing to pay. One guy said he hoped to pay less than five hundred dollars, but he would pay more if he had to. Another person said it didn’t matter what he had to pay … “It was the Rangers in the Stanley Cup.”
If I had to guess, it would be that members of the 1% are not standing in line for these tickets. If any of these folks did get a ticket for $500, they probably need binoculars to see the puck. Take a look at the prices for tickets in the upper corner.
Is this how some members of the middle class are suffering?
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I am not much of a hockey fan….although i like and follow other sports….hockey is a sport that seems to condone blatant/gratuitous violence as the refs usually get out of the way while players hit each other over the head (and elsewhere) with hockey sticks. Maybe paying 500 bucks for a mediocre seat is “worth the action”. If you think this is a lot of money,(waste of money) what about the price of tickets for the Superbowl? I don’t think to many “food stampers” are standing in line…but who knows.
When Marks and Engels were attempting to install socialism and communism one of their greatest fears was religion. They believed it would be difficult to completely change a social system as religion was the” opiate of the people”. In our system of democracy (if that’s what we still have) its sports (as a big business of course) and where baseball as an example is referred to as the American pastime.
While its the 1 percent who own the teams, its the proletarians(with disposable income) that make it profitable.
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Good points. Not unlike the “games” at the coliseum I guess.
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You are still a very delusional right wing Republican old white man, Mr. Quinn. Did you see the clown car of key note speakers at the latest Republican Leadership Conference? Your continual denial of the Oligarchic destruction of the American middle class by the 1% clearly displays your ignorance of current events, your ignorance and or denial of the predilections of American citizens and clearly displays that you and your ilk will soon be historically irrelevant.
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I’m open to be enlightened. Instead of spewing the lefts populist rhetoric, just explain to me how the 1% has destroyed the middle class and why you believe the middle class is destroyed. Sometimes old gives one the enhanced perspective of experience and time. Do you truly believe the US operates like Russia and its oligarchs?
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