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We no longer get what we overpay for

By Patrick Hruby
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Game over. Can we all just admit it? America is up a creek, down a deep hole and facing another six innings with nothing but the Washington Natinals' Nationals' bullpen to call on. Finito. End of an era. Kaput. The surest sign of our hastening national and cultural decline, our first-class slide to second-class status? We no longer can get what we overpay for. Look around. The New York Yankees -- with more than a dash of taxpayer help -- sink $1.5 billion into a sparkling new stadium, a base ...

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