CSHD, NSS, Mike Alexander, wider audience, etc: Your Chinese-torture drip, drip, drip arguments are sometimes lively and even interesting, yet they finally resolve to something like a car racing toward a collision with a train. Rather than address the collision, your arguments address side issues, such as the engine needs a tune-up, the brakes should be checked, there's a spot on the back seat...the guy driving the train once got a ticket in Peoria.
We agree about the wider audience. The coordinates where NSS and sub-prime mortgages overlap (see "financial crisis" re: Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros., AIG, et al) should be the major issue in the current election. The market is the crucial factor to not only a vibrant U.S. but also the world as a whole.