“Will somebody smarter on finance than me explain why this is ANY of the government’s business?”
Big Brother can’t have people thinking they can go against its whims. And they need to keep looting in order to keep bribing voters.
“So what am I missing?”
The logic of the looters.
Have you read 1984. In the book if you are an “enemy” of Big Brother you vanish in the middle of the night and they wipe out all memory and record of you, it is called being VAPORIZED and now that is what Harry Reid wants to do to Republicans in 2010.