Posted on 10/12/2007 6:13:47 AM PDT by kristinn
Conservatives claim to be in favor of stable families, small businesses, hard work, private schools, investment and homeownership.
So why in the world are so many on the right attacking the family of Graeme Frost?
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The kids were treated, thanks to S-CHIP. The Frosts spoke out so the public would know that real people lie behind the acronym.
Their reward was to be trashed on right-wing blogs and talk radio as if they were multimillionaires ripping off the system. The assault on the Frosts apparently began on the Free Republic website and quickly spread to National Review Online, Power Line, and Michelle Malkin's blog, as well as Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
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OK, the Democrats are "fair game," but a 12-year-old? No wonder nobody talks about compassionate conservatism anymore.
As a general rule, I am a fan of the blogosphere. It has broadened the public debate and brought new people into politics. And nasty stuff is by no means limited to the right-wing blogs. Left-of-center blogs whose political views I largely share have published offensive stuff, too. Shaun Mullen, who blogs at The Moderate Voice--yes, there are moderate blogs--is right to generalize when he says that the targeting of the Frost family reveals "the vicious underbelly of the blogosphere."
So rather than just condemn the right-wingers as meanies, let's take their claims seriously. Doing so makes clear that they are engaged in a truly perverse and incoherent form of class warfare.
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But here is a family with modest possessions doing everything conservatives tell people they should do, and the right trashes them for getting help to buy health insurance for their children.
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It was an accident between their car and a tree. Mother driving, hit ice, skidded then hit a tree.
And the tree had no liability insurance. ;o)
EJ Dionne is a bed wetting version of Dr. Goebbels.
E.J. appears to be a man who is struggling to find truth but can not manage to do it.
When are the Democrats going to stop hiding behind human shields, and make a forthright, rational argument for what they are proposing?
Not usually.
Wow! That's exactly what the Rooty Rooter FRiberals do when conservatives point out how liberal Rooty Toot is.
I’ve not even heard it reported as “household income” instead I’ve heard it reported as “earned” which is a very important distinction.
Small business owners can, if structured correctly, thanks to GWB, pay themselves a “salary” from their business and move the rest over as as dividends ( untaxed ) from the business.
So they can perhaps tell the truth that was all they earned but it isn’t all the money they get.
There is no way in the world that someone buys a $450k house, owns all that commercial realestate and only has $45k/year income. The BS meter is past the MAN THE LIFEBOATS stage.
In fact the school is possibly getting scammed into giving them financial aid (needs based would be my guess ) and this story may well be causing them problems on that front as well. Just a hunch.
What I find remarkable about this article (and I take it from the comments that the author is a long-time liberal weenie) is that it exemplifies the left’s view of all money as the government money. The author does not see or understand the difference between tax breaks that allow someone to keep more of his own money and government handouts that offer someone things bought with someone else’s money. He (she?) repeatedly compares these two things as though they are the same.
This comparison makes perfect sense to a liberal because they really view all money as the government’s money. Therefore it doesn’t make a difference whether the government “gives” it to you directly (via a tax break) or buys things with it that it gives to you (like health care).
Sounds like she was driving too fast for road conditions.
Cruel, to me, is taking money away from hard-working people who support their families and giving it to people who don’t need it.
Cruel is telling responsible U.S. citizens that they have to support every indigent who comes into the country.
Is the media reporting the $20k the dad spends to send his kids to school?
“Having never sent children to private schools, is that a tax deductible expense?”
No, unless the school is in some way closely intertwined with the Church (~”parish school”). Even that totally justified tax relief is quickly closing.
Nor do I receive a tax credit for monies paid in support of the local public school district.
Additionally, programs provided to the public schools (such as the useless DARE program), have been pulled from our Catholic school.
Now I’m really curious what they pay to send their kids to that private school. Someone said the cost is something like 20 grand per kid, but that theirs get some kind of assistance/scholarship. And they have 4 kids in private schooling.
If all you’re making is 45,000 bucks, then how in the world can you be paying even half of that tuition, 10 grand per child, or 25%.
At 25%, that would leave them only 25 grand a year to live on in a very high cost area before they even begin paying mortgage, utilities, transportation, etc.
Someone wrote that their mortgage is something like 1400 a month.
These numbers don’t add up.
Claims to have hit ice.
The last precipitation in the area was a half-inch of rain three days earlier, and the temperatures after the rain had averaged in the 40's. No snow for several weeks prior to the accident.
I'm not saying for certain there was no ice, but it looks unlikely.
See #55
REPUBLICANS LEAVE FROST FEELING COLD
(Now that’s a headline!)
New republic= lies
As usual, to the left the truth is cruel.
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