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With all the hoopla surrounding the new Yankee stadium you would think it was being built in the heart of the city, namely Manhattan. Instead this new remarkable stadium is being built right across the street from the old one, on top of one of the few well maintained public parks/playgrounds in the city, in what happens to be the poorest congressional district in the United States.

“You don’t have progress unless you inconvenience a few people.” That was what New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to say when he was asked to comment about the replacement parks promised by both the city of NewYork and Yankee organization. He was asked to comment due to the fact that some of the parks will not be finished until 2011, while

The fight between Congress and George W. Bush over the 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout package hinged on the question of oversight. Democrats wanted a legislative or judicial body to oversee the process of ladling out our wealth in the corporate soup kitchen, while Bush loathed the idea of judicial or civilian bodies interfering in governance, though the U.S. Constitution says they are supposed to do exactly that. The spectacle of this battle should have awakened Americans at long last from the greatest mass hallucination in human history—namely that capitalism and democracy go hand in hand.