Thank you for sharing your story, Mr. Wolff.   I hope you live a long and happy life with my tax dollars helping.  I'd much rather pay the taxes than endure the hardships of those who benefit from them.

You, the two men in Firestone who were killed in a gas industry related explosion while changing a water heater, the soldiers who die or are maimed in our Imperialist wars, and so many others who are martyrs in our society who have a high calling:  to let the rest of us know how fortunate we are to be on the helping end and not the receiving end.

Until our values are of helping one another, and not of the Ayn Rand-Rand Paul insanity of Libertarian "every man for himself" values, we're doomed to have martyr after martyr, and your story shows us that this fate can be delivered by an insect weighing less than a gram.