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I have an issue with that last comment, flame me if you want.

My dad was a coal miner in Eastern Kentucky who was laid off one month after I, then a few weeks shy of three, was diagnosed with Acute Lypmhablastic Leukemia. My maternal grandfather, thankfully was a crew foreman with a bridge and highway contractor, who also thankfully carried the same insurance that the mine did. Dad started in the construction company he worked for as a crew laborer with little more than a high school diploma and a welding certificate. Through hard work, however, he was able to advance himself to a foreman's position after close to ten years as a laborer and welder, and then in 1998 was promoted to being the Equipment Superintendent, the number 3 man in the company. Although he does make good money, (although still not enough for us to be considered Upper Middle Class) now, this was not the case through out most of my childhood.

My point being that broad stereotyping such as "Rich yuppie scum" does a great disservice to people who earn their way in life, such as my father and my maternal grandfather, who with only an eight grade education became a foreman after years as a laborer who educated himself by stealing his foreman's plans at the end of the day, taking them home and studying them and waiting for the next spot to open.

I do not know the Edwards family personally, but to refer to them as "Rich Yuppie Scum" simply because his father worked his way up to management I feel may do them a bit of injustice.

No offense taken. I don't tend to be a flamer (in either sense of the word :-) ).

My comment doesn't reflect my attitude, merely the attitude of the poor working class area I grew up in. Trust me, I get near apoplectic when I think of Dick Gephardt's comment about "Those who've won life's lottery". I want to find him and strangle him when I hear it or think of it. It's exactly the same attitude. Sorry if my comment offended.