the rest of the story! Why in the world do these people need SCHIP? And how does a $45,000 a year reported income manage to send two kids at once to a $20,000 a year private school? This is a blatant fraud by the Democrats and easily checked.
Private School and A Large House, But No Health Insurance? : The American Pundit "A half-a-million dollar home, $190,000 in commercial property, successful architect grandfathers, owning his own design company, a beautiful kitchen complete with what appears to be granite counter tops, an estimated $1,200 a month mortgage, personal injury auto insurance required in Maryland, but the Frosts couldn’t afford an estimated $452? Hmm."
Flopping Aces: "This is the family the Democrats chose to represent SCHIP? If there was a more perfect family why SCHIP should not be expanded its this one."
SCHIP--Limbaugh, Hannity and Hewett will bash the Dems nicely with this most recent gifty stick. Is there ONE non-phony within the Dem collective?
Little Graham Frost of Baltimore addressed the nation this week as the Democratic spokesperson, pleading against President Bush’s promise to veto legislation that would expand S-CHIP health coverage for children. It has been a long road for Graham, aged 12, who was seriously injured in a traffic accident while on his bike. According to his mom, it would cost the family about $1200 per month for private insurance, if not for the government program, while the family takes in only about $45,000 a year. In an article in the Baltimore Sun, Graham’s father is characterized as a common woodworker. That is, until a blogger, calling himself
“icwhatudo” at Free Republic, however, showed rather more curiosity than the professional reporter paid to investigate the story and did a bit of Googling. 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. This is apparently the new definition of “working families”.
Powerline: "Why is it that the chance of any mainstream media reporter doing easy internet research to check the accuracy of the Democrats' story, as this Freeper did, is exactly zero?"
I’m glad little Graham and his family were able to get help, and I hope he reaches full rehabilitation. But perhaps the Democrats ought to take more care in the spokespeople they choose, if they wish to tug at our heartstrings.
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