Posted on 10/06/2007 10:42:57 PM PDT by icwhatudo
Graeme Frost, who gave the democrat rebuttal to George Bush’s reasons for vetoing the SCHIP Bill, is a middle school student at the exclusive$20,000 per year Park School in Baltimore, MD.
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 2 grade schoolers. Confirmation both attended Park found here using edit-"find on this page"-Gemma. It will take you to an article in the schools newspaper about a fundraiser for Gemma class of 16, and Graeme class of 13.
Here are photos of the school's 44,000 square foot Wyman Arts Center: two galleries, an outdoor ampitheater, Meyerhoff Theater, Macks-Fidler Black Box Theater, practice rooms, rehearsal space, and ceramics, 3-D sculpture, woodworking, jewelry, painting, photography, digital graphics studios, recording studio, and keyboard lab.
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.
Are you also under the DUmmie “investigation”?
LOL. Something like that. Some think I am the business of wetwork and backstabbed the Perot campaign during another fiasco of falsehoods I got wrapped up in some time ago. Got word the subject came up because of this issue and they are getting all riled up again at the loony bin.
Haha, riled up enough to “step into the light”!!!
I’ve been tracked by a whiskeyfire user! He (or she) thinks that I’m too scared to post under the same name to two different boards. Never thought that maybe, just maybe, the name I chose for one board was already taken by another one. I wanted to post under “El Conquistador” here, but it was already taken. I digress...
Back to the topic. It seems so many people feel so strongly that the Frosts need financial support. I suggest that those so willing to spend other peoples’ money put their money up first. There is nothing keeping the liberals (there, I said it) from sending nice big personal checks to the Frost family. Heck, I’m sure Nancy Pelosi could cover the hospital bill herself. Bottom line: If you don’t think the government has given the Frost family enough of your money already, then by all means SEND THE FROST FAMILY SOME OF YOUR PERSONAL CASH!!!
The silence is deafening.
Hi
Yeah this is a great issue in so many ways.
One thing that amazes me with the liberal blogs attacking Free Republic is that they don’t seem understand how the attacks from Hillary Clinton, Keith Olberman, Karen Tumulty, Paul Krugman, etc. are of apiece with attacks on dailykos and Markos Moulitsas. Its the same thing: the elites want to shut the citizens out of the discussion and have it all to themselves. But its not going to happen because people don’t voluntarily give up this freedom and say, “Lets go back to the old days when we had no impact on the issues.” Free Republic got Bill Clinton impeached and Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic primary because of dailykos. The elites hate it, liberals and conservatives and Democrats and Republicans.
Hey, great to hear from you again FRiend. I was afraid you had “disappeared”... I’m a bit late on this one, but I’ll certainly ping my (now informal) list... Thanks. :o)
Sorry I’m a bit late on this one, FRiends...
This was just on YouTube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwYhrc2des
type in Graeme Frost and you will see the videos defending them.
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