[orthodoc]

@IamSam - you're clearly offended that I said my grandparents 'never, ever applied for government support'. Well, they didn't. Fact. What I didn't say was that anyone who needs help is 'worthless scum who should get their Medicaid taken away and go off and die quietly somewhere and leave the superior members of our society alone'. Really. Really?

I didn't mention my grandparents in order to start a pissing contest over whose grandparents worked harder. (We both had hard-working grandparents: hooray!) I've mentioned my background a couple of times on the board because I'm a doctor, and there's a general hostility to higher incomes here, and it's easy to look at me and assume I know nothing at all about living on a low income.

Your father was a doctor at a time when physician incomes were off the charts relative to average incomes. Does that make your comments invalid? Obviously not. But I find that I can't assume that for myself.

In my response to Dana I tried to put my comments in context, i.e. that I don't come from a wealthy or well-off family, that I do understand first-hand what it is to live without enough income to make ends meet. That's all it was about.

Your unpleasantness isn't necessary. If you really plan to throw yourself into the Colorado River, please go to your nearest ER and access Crisis Services. Please. If not, just stop the bullshit and the stupid unsubstantiated comments about Canadians and Kentuckians.