>Please let someone else have the mantle of "expert" on this one. <<

No such person exists, I fear. I was listening to one of those grow-your-mind radio stations the other day as they tried to explain why the energy deregulation fiasco has no bearing on the budget deficit. It was simple to those experts; perhaps it is -- but even in a balanced state budget where the universal rules of addition and subtraction are supposed to work, I would, let's say, "question authority."