On: Has There Ever Been a Default on U.S. Treasury Deb...

[cchooper]

It's trying to insinuate that all governments are untrustworthy by extrapolating from a single data point. To put it another way: it's a cheap shot.

[patrickg-zill → cchooper]

Apparently you haven't been paying attention to government behavior over the last 100 years :-)

[cchooper → patrickg-zill]

Governments could be the source of all the evil in all the world, but this article would still suck.