whats with the right wing media attacking a 12 year old boy and a Nobel lauriat. i mean have they no shame. this has got to be a low point in America.
Can you post a link as to what you're talking about? I've only heard accolades about his achievement from every major network on regular TV when I turned it on briefly today.
SCHIP is a medical insurance safety net for poor children, which Bush wanted to maintain with a budget increase. The Democrats decided to spend an extra 35 billion to expand the program to cover "children" up to 25, "poor families" up to $82,000, and illegals. When Bush vetoed their attempt, they blamed him for killing "the program", when they could easily pass a bill that would maintain the program at it's current levels (plus Bush's 5 billion additional spending).
Mr. Halsey Frost, Graeme’s father, owns his own woodworking design studio, Frostworks, so his claim that he can’t get health insurance through work is shockingly deceptive. He chooses not to get health care for his family. Second, Graeme and his sister Gemma attend the very exclusive Park School, which has a tuition of $20,000 a year, per child. Third, they live in a 3,000+ square foot home in a neighborhood with smaller homes that are selling for at least $400,000. "
What is verifiable: The Frosts own a home in Baltimore purchased for $55,000 16 years ago - and now worth an estimated $300,000. That's a lot of equity. In addition, the children's father, Halsey Frost, owns commercial real estate and his own small business, but chose not to buy health insurance for himself and his wife, whom he hired as an employee. She now apparently works freelance at a medical-publishing firm, which also reportedly doesn't offer insurance. Gemma and Graeme both attend costly private schools; the Frosts have two other school-age children. Reid's staff says Gemma and Graeme get tuition breaks. But it's not clear when those scholarships were instituted and/or whether the other two receive tuition aid. Moreover, Frost's family comes from considerable means. The children's maternal grandfather was an engineering executive. Their paternal grandparents hail from affluent Bronxville, N.Y., where the grandfather is a prominent consultant. In other words: The public trough is not Halsey Frost's last and only resort. The accident was horrible. The children deserve sympathy and compassion. But this family made choices. Choices have consequences. Taxpayers of lesser means should not be forced to subsidize them. The Frosts claim it would cost them more per month than their mortgage, reportedly $1,200 a month, to buy private insurance. But insurance bloggers quickly found available plans for a family of six with premiums as low as $452/month. Graeme and Gemma Frost are not the first political symbols to be exploited by socialized health-care pushers. In 1996, Hillary Clinton trotted out young Jennifer Bush, a 7-year-old with mystery ailments whose mother coached her to lobby for universal health care. Jennifer's mom was later convicted of aggravated child abuse and welfare fraud for misrepresenting $60,000 in assets on Medicaid forms. In 2000, Al Gore propped up elderly widow Winifred Skinner to lambaste high drug prices. Gore repeated her claim that she had to pick up cans on roadsides to pay for medicine. Dan Rather bemoaned: "She's no child, but she belongs on a poster about high drug costs." One problem: Winifred's own well-to-do son, businessman Earl King, debunked those claims. In 2004, John Kerry propped up Mary Ann Knowles, a breast-cancer patient whom he claimed "had to keep working day after day right through her chemo- therapy . . . because she was terrified of losing her family's health insurance." The Manchester Union Leader editorial page reported: "Knowles chose to work through most, but not all, of her chemo- therapy because her husband was out of a job. . . . She and husband John did not want to take the pay cut that would have come with disability leave, so Mary Ann kept working." The Democrats sorely resent that they can no longer peddle their Big Nanny propaganda unchallenged. Reid is throwing tantrums and attacking the messengers who expose their health-care poster-child abuse. Here's a free prescription for our stunted politicians: Grow up.
Those people bought the home for 55k many years ago, the kids do have a scholarship, these lies are beneath contempt.
It was the Democrats who threw the boy into the political arena. They threw him out there with phony claims of being indigent and they then complain when we respond. "HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THIS CHILD!!!!". This child gave the Democratic response to the president. We have a right to respond. No, a duty. We are trillions of dollars in debt, and the Democrats aren't happy with Bush's proposal to double the program. No, they need to increase it by an order of magnitude. This situation is like a girl going out for the football team and then complaining about the boys being too rough on her.
There is nothing phony about the boy or this family. The attacks are completely retarded, have you no shame? There is simply nothing the Republicans will not do.
The phony part is that this family has no insurance by choice. They could afford it. I pay for my own damned insurance. Sure, I could invest the thousands of dollars a year I spend on it or send my kids to a $20,000 a year private school like they did. But I choose to not beg the government for a handout for something I can provide myself. If you're poor, handicapped, or whatever; that's one thing. And that's who this program was meant to help. This family was basically pimping out their kid for sympathy and that's what's disgusting.
so your saying you have a duty to attack him not what he said but him and his family. you know death threats have been made against him right
I guess the right wing media just hates 12 year old boys and Nobel Lauriats. Maybe you should work for Hillary to help spread the news.
No, I didn't know that and of course I don't support that. I'm simply disputing the idea that we need to pay for his family's healthcare when they are capable of paying for it themselves.
Wake up, dude! It's been clearly shown that his family COULD afford it, but they made a different choice. What IS your problem anyway - having trouble understanding what you read?:bugeye: Or do you just like to nitpick on one minor point while ignoring the rest of the facts????????????
i have been watching the news and looking up facts about it and all i have found says that his family could not afford healthcare also about the private school he goes on a scholership. besides even if everything he said is true which it is not it would still not change the fact that the right wing media attacked him as well as al gore a nobel lauriat.
You really nead to work hard to develop an adult perspective of things. Also, I've noticed that you still have NOT provided a link to any of this - and you were asked to to so very early in the thread (the very first response you got, I believe). That's the first thing anyone should do when starting a thread about something in the news (and many other topics as well).
here is a link click on gop attacks 12 year old boy for a video clip. and i have an adult perspective on things thats why i get offended when people attack 12 year olds http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
