>>Switching topics...I just read that 67% of New Zealanders say they trust their political institutions. Amazing...67% of Americans believe our leaders are dumber than a bag of hammers. :)

LOL. Need to distinguish stupidity of politicians from trustworthiness of political institutions: on a score of 1 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) the US rates 73 which is 19th in the world in 2013 and not too bad. NZ did OK too ( http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results/ ) but that's easier when there's only 4 million of you and the Prime Minister might be having a cup of tea in the cafe across the road when you take your kids to the Matakana markets.

>>Maybe that's why you and I disagree so much

Possibly... on that note, haven't heard much about the catastrophized Obamacare website recently. Detractors strangely quiet about contractor CGI being sidelined in favor of Accenture or retirement of Michelle Snyder, or the gradually revealed story of a very small group of gurus who got things going in record time, a precedent that increasingly will be quoted to drive down bloated IT costs and expectations- if 5 men can do it in a month, why does it need 30 months, a cast of hundreds and a cost of tens of millions? The salad days of the journeyman judged by results rather than vendor patronage may be upon us for a while. Also I see there are 4 million signed up aiming for 7 million by end of March.