Ageist coments are ill-becoming.  I'm 74 and no bigger pain in the $#@% than I've been all my life.  I would dearly love to have a face-to-face discussion/debate w/you regarding such issues as income disparity and trickle-down economics.  Give me a call, I can still drive and find my way to Eugene.  

I find the idea that we need to cut medicaid so we can give tax reductions to the very wealthy absolutely disgusting.  If you feel expressing such disgust constitutes petulance I can live with that.  Gary Crum