A week ago Saturday, the Democrats decided to counter the President’s weekly radio address with a 12 year-old boy named Graeme Frost. Young Frost had survived a horrible car accident and received medical care courtesy of the government S-CHIP medical care program. His plea, as crafted by the majority party, was a simple one: President Bush had vetoed the program that saved his life and was leaving countless needy children without health care.
As despicable as the Democrats’ ploy was, more despicable is the news that young Frost’s parents are far from destitute. In fact, they seem to be pretty well off. Mark Steyn found a couple bloggers who dug into a baltimore Sun puff piece on the Frost family and summed up their findings.
Mr Frost, the “woodworker”, owns his own design company and the commercial property it operates from, part of which space he also rents out; they have a 3,000-sq-ft home on a street where a 2,000-sq-ft home recently sold for half a million dollars; he was able to afford to send two children simultaneously to a $20,000-a-year private school; his father and grandfather were successful New York designers and architects; etc.
And yet the Frosts could not, or would not, purchase health insurance for their family.
Shame on the Democrats. It’s not enough they had to use a child to sell us their warmed-over socialist money grab. They had to gussy up the story and try to fool us to do it.
And shame on the MSM for gulping down the whole story like a snake sucking an egg.
Jimmie, I agree with you, but “Shame on the Democrats”? You have to be kidding.
[...] Out of the Mouth of Children… A week ago Saturday, the Democrats decided to counter the President’s weekly radio address with a 12 year-old boy named Graeme Frost. Young Frost had survived a horrible car accident and received medical care courtesy of the government S-CHIP medical care program. His plea, as crafted by the m… [...]
Well, insofar as I don’t think they’d feel shame, I agree with you. But I do think they deserve some scolding for rolling out a sick kid for some old-school heartstring-plucking while knowing that he wasn’t exactly mired in poverty. They used a little kid to pitch their fraud. That’s outside the lines, as far as I’m concerned.
Ya know what that proves? That he pays $50/yr for a corporation certificate to the state. It’s a small business that he started – believe it or not, millions of Americans have their own businesses, and they’re not rich. They’re just out there trying to make a living.
Re: the school: you’re an idiot. The kids get scholarships. While that came out today, anyone that isn’t blinded by partisanship should’ve figure that out.
As for the house: they have a house in a modest neighborhood (mean income: 36k/yr. Lavish!), and their mortgage is probably less than rent in the area.
It takes a warped person to see this set of facts and think it’s all a fraud.
>>It takes a warped person to see this set of facts and think it’s all a fraud.>>
No, actually, it takes a warped person not to present the facts in the first place in order to create the impression that the facts don’t exist.
Why didn’t he buy family health insurance in the first place? It’s called being responsible. He has 4 children – he has a responsibility toward them. If that means he has to work for someone else instead of starting his own business, then that’s his obligation. How about if he didn’t feed them – because he didn’t have enough money to start his own business – would you be in favor of giving him food stamps?
Why didn’t his auto insurance – or the other person’s – if someone else was at fault – cover the health costs? Maybe the other person was at fault and was an uninsured illegal immigrant? I haven’t seen _that_ one asked, but then I haven’t seen _any_ info on the accident. Auto insurance usually pays medical expenses, though. So why didn’t it this time?