October 8, 2007...2:17 pm
THE DEMOCRATS’ MANIPULATION OF KIDS
Looks like the Democrats have more in common with the jihadists than we originally thought. While our enemies recruit 12-year-olds to serve as homicide bombers, the Democrats recruit them to launch raids on our wallets.
Seems that the 12 year old used by the Democrats in their weekly radio address condemning President Bush for vetoing the BullSCHIP expansion of children’s health care to upper-middle class families, adults and illegal aliens doesn’t come from a destitute family like the Democrats claim.
The 12 year old, who suffered injuries in an automobile accident, delivered the Democrats’ weekly radio address. You can listen to it here.
Free Republic has done a yeoman’s job unmasking these phonies. The Frosts, as well as the Democrats who recruited them for what Michelle Malkin calls policy-by-anecdote.
Turns out that Graeme Frost’s family can afford to send Graeme to an exclusive private school at a tuition rate of $20,000. What? Gummint-run skoolz aren’t good enough but gummint-run health care is?
Graeme was in a severe car accident three years ago, and received care paid for by the government program known as SCHIP-(State Children’s Health Insurance Program)
“I was in a coma for a week and couldn’t eat or stand up or even talk. My sister was even worse,” Graeme wrote. “My parents work really hard and always make sure my sister and I have everything we need, but we can’t afford private health insurance.”
His sister Gemma, also severely injured in the accident, attended the same school prior to the accident meaning the family was able to come up with nearly $40,000 per year for tuition for these [students].
The Drive By Media reported that the Frosts have a combined household income of $45,000 but neglects to mention that Mr. Frost owns his own company and has significant assets and income Check out the results of FR’s investigation:
In a Baltimore Sun article the family claims to be raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. “Bonnie Frost works for a medical publishing firm; her husband, Halsey, is a woodworker. They are raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. Neither gets health insurance through work.”
What the article does not mention is that Halsey Frost has owned his own company “Frostworks”,since this marriage announcement in the NY Times in 1992 so he chooses to not give himself insurance. He also employed his wife as “bookkeeper and operations management” prior to her recent 2007 hire at the “medical publishing firm”. As her employer, he apparently denied her health insurance as well.
His company, Frostworks, is located at 3701 E BALTIMORE ST. A building that was purchased for $160,000 in 1999. The buildings owner is listed as DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN CENTER, LLC whose mailing address is listed as 104 S Collington Ave which is the Frost’s home. The commercial property he owns is also listed as the business address for another company called Reillys Designs which leads to the question of whether rental income is included in the above mentioned salary total
The current market value of their improved 3,040 SF home at 104 S Collington Ave is unknown but 113 S COLLINGTON AVE, also an end unit, sold for $485,000 this past March and it was only 2,060 SF. A photo taken in the family’s kitchen shows what appears to be a recent remodeling job with granite counter tops and glass front cabinets
One has to wonder that if time and money can be found to remodel a home, send kids to exclusive private schools, purchase commercial property and run your own business… maybe money can be found for other things…maybe Dad should drop his woodworking hobby and get a real job that offers health insurance rather than making people like me (also with 4 kids in a 600sf smaller house and tuition $16,000 less per kid and no commercial property ownership) pay for it in my taxes.
Says Malkin:
The use of Graeme Frost was part of a larger left-wing strategy to hide behind children and use them as cannon fodder in their losing bid to get S-CHIP passed into law. Predictably, the reflexive left is already lambasting those who scrutinized the Frosts’ case. “Class warfare?” Blame Democrats, not Republicans for that. If you can’t see the inherent unfairness in forcing people with lesser means pay for the health care of those with greater means who choose to forego health insurance to pay for other things (houses, cars, real estate, private schools), your partisan blindness is incurable.
There isn’t any measurable difference between this stunt and the various dog-and-pony shows done by Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone and the Democrats and their various interest groups here in Wisconsin. Recruit a bunch of “victims” and have a press conference, get the Drive By Media to show up and hopefully apply pressure to anyone standing in the way of tax increases to cave. The Left is the one who coined the phrase “It’s for the children.” Translation: it’s the intention of a program that should measure its worth and anyone who stands up to tax increases or opposes government programs that are supposedly “for the children” is somehow anti-child.
Democrats use tax increases and government programs in the same manner that the jihadists use C4 and other explosives, strapping them to the torsos of children and sending them out to terrorize the public.
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October 8, 2007 at 8:42 pm
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