"Who has the right to be wealthy?" Anyone willing to work for it! If you're not willing to work, don't look for a hand-out from anyone.

If you are unable to perform a task of any kind due to a physical impairment, which is a very tiny percentage of people, then a tiny percentage of our tax dollars should be used to provide some financial assistance.

I had the privilege to know an individual who was completely paralyzed from childhood with arthritis. He was 19 when I met him and was one of my patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He could barely speak because the malady has frozen all his joints, including his jaw. His jaw was replaced with a prosthesis so he could eat and talk, but other than that he was immobile. His mind still functioned well, and he set up a small business that became one of the area's first answering services. He worked every day of the week, 18-hours a day and within a year began expanding the business, hiring on more individuals with similar physical impairments. He operated the business for another three years, made huge sums of money, and sold the company when his body finally began to fail to the point where he could no longer function. When he died he donated all of his money to the Arthritis Foundation. It was well over a million dollars. He worked for it, and he had every right to do anything he wished with the proceeds. I feel the same about my income as well.

Gary