Gary,
While we have certainly seen that sort of gloating and taunting around here, I'm afraid it almost always originates from your side of the fence. ;-)
I thought his post was calm and considered, with nothing to annoy its intended audience- this is after all the VFP forum.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1