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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (765771)	10/8/2007 11:04:15 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769667

Remember this? 3,000 square foot home, but cannot 'afford' health insurance? By donsurber on Government waste Remember the Frost family of Baltimore? They had a bad traffic accident 3 years ago. Their medical bills were paid by the taxpayer-subsidized SCHIP. Democrats trotted out Graeme Frost, 12, to call the president mean for not expanding the program beyond what he was willing to expand it. But all is not what it seems. Based a sympathetic Baltimore Sun story — reporters never question "victims" — a blogger did some snooping around. Brutally Honest found that the Frosts (check out the kitchen) 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 $190,000 in 1999 and their house mortgage appears to be worth $200,000. Observed Brutally Honest: "Bush's political machine needs to get the message out that when the government is spending money on those who really don't need the help, the truly needy are passed over." This business of "affordable insurance" is socialistic. 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? blogs.dailymail.com.

To: pompsander who wrote (765771)	10/11/2007 12:47:54 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Is there anything that George Bush or the republican party does that you can even look critically at?" If you read my posts you would not ask that question. "I can't figure out why President Bush think vetoing this bipartisan bill " Because a bad idea is still a bad idea even if a few RINOs sign on. Supplanting commercial insurance with another government boondoggle for middle class Americans is simply creeping socialism. If you want to live in a socialist country there are plenty to move to, you don't have to destroy this nation to achieve your dreams.