IN the grander scheme of things this is no big deal.

All it really does is give some of us some idea of how the other half lives.

But all I can say is: if it took reading Sarah Palin's bill for a makeover to make you feel some reasonably appropriate class envy, then you must not have been paying much attention to the world you've grown up in.

I've known people whose families spend more on vaction homes than my father and mother made in their entire lifetimes combined.

I personally don't begrudge the wealthy their perqs of wealth, except when they start whining about about how unfair it is that they pay a higher rate of taxes than I do.

All those complaints make me want to do is form up the pitchfork and torches posse and storm the barricades.

I confess If I were loaded I'd live well, too.

And I would sleep like a baby, too, undisturbed by the poverty of my fellow citizens just as I know most of them do.

What I would not do is expect those poorer souls to CARE than I paid more taxes every year than most of them make before taxes.

Now that kind of arrogant indifference to most people's reality is apt to make the class war go from cold to hot rather quickly.