otcbargains -- didn't forget anything, oh impudent one -- point being that the claim that S&P regards only spending cuts as a way forward is both flat wrong, and simple-mindedly asinine -- as established by what you posted as well as by what I'd posted in my http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65943173 to which you were replying (and by fuagf's reply to that one of mine at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65943259 )