October 08, 2007
Scamming the taxpayer
When Pres. Bush vetoed the Democrat-backed super-sizing of the SCHIP insurance program, the Dems had a 12-year-old kid deliver their response in an attempt to Mau-Mau conservatives into submission by using -- using -- a doe-eyed, cute-as-a-button, sick pre-teen to deliver the message that the GOP hates underprivileged, ill kids.
The MSM did a stellar job, if by that you mean uncritically publishing the propaganda of the Left, taking at face value the Dems' statement that the boy's family couldn't afford health insurance. It seems Graeme Frost was badly injured in a traffic accident; taxpayer-funded SCHIP paid for his care.
But the unwashed cyber-masses started digging, and guess what a blogger discovered after he started fact-checking a Baltimore Sun puff piece on the Frost family.
Brutally Honest found that the Frosts live in a 3,000-square-foot house in the Butchers Hill historic district of Baltimore.
The children attend the private Park School, where tuition is $20,000 a year each. Maybe that is subsidized. Interesting that public schools aren’t good enough for their kids but public health insurance is.
The Frosts contend they live on $45,000 and cannot afford health insurance. He’s a self-employed woodworker.
And they appear to be land rich, cash poor. He bought a building for $160,000 in 1999 and their house mortgage appears to be worth $200,000.
The Frosts found an “affordable” business building and an “affordable” 3,000-square foot house and an “affordable” private school. Why couldn’t these yuppies afford to cover their own damned kids?
I have a few questions about so many poor odd choices. Why doesn't the kid's father -- who is self-employed -- buy an insurance policy? Why doesn't the mother look for a job with health benefits? Why not send two of the kids to public school and use the $40,000 for health insurance premiums?
The answer is, I suppose, "Why bother?" After all, the taxpayers (aka the schmucks like you and me) will pick up the tab for the Frost parents' choosing lifestyle over responsibility.
The Frosts are living with the results of an economic cost-benefit analysis: big house, fancy schools, Dad's the boss and healthcare paid for by his neighbors.
That makes him -- in the eyes of the Dems -- a member of the economic underclass.
I think it means he's living on our dime -- and makes us suckers.
Posted by Mike Lief at October 8, 2007 06:41 AM
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