The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.