US politics are in gridlock because elected officials, Democrats and Republicans, are fighting to revive an economic model based on land speculation, production homebuilding and construction of infrastructure related to sprawl. Instead of breaking with leap-frog, car-centric development molded to fit financial derivatives– admitting that trillions of taxpayer handouts have been given to banks to
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