For our visit we were stayed in a crashpad (an inappropriatename for a luxury apartment at The Ogden) for two nights, courtesy of the Downtown Project, so we both got to see what Downtown is really all about in 2012.
The first pope to change his name did so in the Sixth Century because he was named after the Roman god Mercury, and he thought it inappropriate to carry that name as pope.
And it is simply inappropriate and extremely dangerous to suggest that in the name of a political agenda we would default, for example, on our obligations to pay our bills.