And just as a follow up, GfinS...

Back during my first lap thru college I had to take biology and I recall a professor telling the class about these microscopic organisms (nematodes?) that live on our skin is such abundance that if we took away us and just left these critters we would be recognizable to others... Then Dr. Fienburg (why do I remember his name???) showed a highly magnified photo of one of these things and it was disgusting...

The point is that if you take anything and take it down to the microscopic level, as you have done with these links, then the more the magnification the less one is able to see the "big picture"...

That is precisely what you and your Tea Party/Libertarian buddies are trying to do... You are trying to use the minute details as a smoke screen... This is what Teribus tried to do to justify the Iraq War... He would never stay focused of the big picture because it didn't fir his argument so he would delve into the microscopic world to as subterfuge...

When you want to talk BIG PICTURE, fine... Tell us again why Michelle Bachmann and Wall Street crooks should run the show...

No more subterfuge... This is a philosophical discussion about the best way to run a very large and wealthy country...

BTW, I don't give a rat's ass about credit default swaps and derivatives... Real people don't get bogged down in those little ballgames that the super wealthy play as ways of extracting more wealth for themselves...

I mean, your Tea Party says its "grasroots"... That means the ordinary folks... Problem is that the policies ya'll expose aren't ordinary folk policies... They are policies that the super rich want for themselves to extract wealth, pollute and poison... You and your buds are just their ignorant pawns...

B~