Posted on 10/10/2007 4:42:36 AM PDT by kristinn
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The onslaught began over the weekend, a week after 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democrats' weekly radio address with a plea to Bush to sign the bill. A contributor to the conservative Web site Free Republic noted Graeme's enrollment in the private Park School and the sale of a smaller rowhouse on the Frosts' block for $485,000 this year and questioned whether the family should be taking advantage of the state program.
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The Frosts say the description of their family's circumstances now circulating is misleading. Halsey, they say, is a self-employed woodworker - he has no employees - while Bonnie works part time for a medical publishing firm. Together, they say, they earn between $45,000 and $50,000 a year.
That would make the Frosts eligible for Maryland's Children's Health Program, which is open to families that earn no more than 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or $82,830 a year for a family of six.
The Frosts declined to show The Sun their 2006 income tax returns...
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Halsey Frost purchased the family home for $55,000 in 1990, according to city records, and refinanced in 2005, he says, to make improvements to accommodate the return of Graeme and Gemma from the hospital. The 1936 brick rowhouse, on a side street near Patterson Park, has an assessed value of $263,140.
Halsey Frost purchased a 1920 warehouse in East Baltimore for $160,000 in 1999, according to city records. It is assessed at $160,500. Frost says he is still paying off the mortgages on both properties.
The four Frost children depend on financial aid to attend private school, the Frosts say. In addition, they say, Gemma receives money from the city for special education made necessary by her injuries.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Nancy Pelosi has strong Baltimore connections.
and live in that neighborhood and send their kids to private school! LOL! Oh my, LOL!!!!
What does a private school cost these days? $100? LOL!
Well, how horrible of Rush to bring this poor family's finances into the public debate.
What? He didn't? They did it themselves. You don't say...
Had you seen to it that you had BOUGHT insurance instead of asking your NEIGHBORS to pay for yours, this whole thing wouldn't have happened. You need to blame YOURSELVES for putting that bomb jacket on your kid and sending him out there with your lies.
It's not the kids fault...it's yours and Reid's and Pelosi's and that hideous FAMILIES USA!
Yes, the FAMILY brought up how much they made...yeah $50,000....yeah right....unless he is such a horrible furniture and cabinet maker that he only brings in $30,000 a year, because the wife works also.
It burns me that the media lets her and the Democrats get away with this. They put him on national radio to lie about the program and to guilt people into voting the wrong way, and then she plays the victim when her tactic is questioned?
At least now we know that the "$1200" medical figure was for coverage now that the children are disabled, and NOT the amount it would have cost them to get the coverage when everybody was healthy.
I think end row houses sell for more than the ones in the middle, but I bet the assessment is low as well. Not that it matters what assets they have.
The more important thing, and therefore the thing being ignored by the media, is that this family already was covered under SCHIP, and would have been covered under Bush's proposal for re-authorization.
The only reason they don't have coverage at this moment is that the Democrats are using the Frosts as human sheilds, as hostages, denying them a poor-people's SCHIP program in order to blackmail people into allowing them to spend more money and cover more people.
If we played this game, we should find hard-working poor people who qualified under SCHIP and really needed it to do a press conference attacking the Democrats for using them as pawns to get their way. It would be even better if they had some grandmother who smoked who, under the Democrats plan, would have to choose between paying her higher taxes or buying prescription drugs.
Swift-boated? Did the Frosts claim to having been sent into Cambodia for Christmas in 1968 by President Nixon (who wasn't even President)?
It’s reported that Mrs. Frost works for a medical publishing firm. Does anyone know if this is a salaried position or is it mainly freelanced medical transcriptionist work that you do at home?
Swift-boated is liberal speak for EXPOSED BY THE TRUTH!!
Her daddy was the mayor 40 years ago.
From those injuries it looks like Bonnie didn't make sure Graeme and Gemma were wearing their seat belts.
I’m surprised the Sun printed this...
One kitchen remodel can spend 30K on cabinets. Easy!
I know....they are HIDING their INCOME it looks like.
And her brother was mayor, too.
You picked up the best point in this article—that Bonnie RECENTLY got a quote for $1200/month for insurance—WITH all the pre-existing conditions they now have.
So, Bonnie, how much was it going to be per month BEFORE the accident? Or did you even shop it?
How does one pay the mortgages on 160,000, and whatever the refinance of their home on such a low income?
It looks like to me, that even as dumb as the dems are, they could have found a better poster boy. In fact, I know that they could have.
ping
>> and live in that neighborhood <<
THAT neighborhood is no great place to live. It’s become more gentrified in the last couple of years, but I wouldn’t live there with my family.
What parent would put their kid out there....tell all about their finaces....be PROUD they are sucking off the taxpayers. and tell this stuff to all the WORLD??? Egads.
And on other threads, it was noted that the paternal grandfather owned a prominent Manhattan architecture firm (ie, it looks like the grandparents on both sides are probably wealthy, and the couple probably have trust fund income in addition to their low official salaries
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The Democrats chastised other people who publicized the Frosts' financial situation
Anyone who owns his own business who claims 50,000 probably has every restaurant, every mile, every piece of equipment, every phone, every piece of paper, etc., etc., coming off as a business expense.
In short, that’s 50,000 after most everything else has been paid, and that would certainly include the 160,000 dollar warehouse cost.
That says it all for me. These people need to be investigated by the Feds.
"The four Frost children depend on financial aid to attend private school, the Frosts say."
Well that vague answer answers nothing.
“How does one pay the mortgages on 160,000, and whatever the refinance of their home on such a low income?”
Maybe “Tax Credits” for each child?
The Frosts declined to show The Sun their 2006 income tax returns...
One of the "nice" things about being a landlord and having an LLC, of which you and your spouse are the only officers, is that you can make a moderate "income" and pay Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. up to a certain maximum, and then take all the rental revenue but not claim it as income and not pay those things.
IOW - The Frosts can show their meager W-2's but that is NOT the whole story. So their Form-1040's are off limits.
Wrong. You can sustain brain stem injuries even while wearing a seat belt - car stops while doing 60mph, head keeps travelling ... unless you know of a seat belt that restrains the head.
Remember, the back seats typically don’t have airbags.
A mortgage on $160,000 is around $900-1,000 and up depending on what interest rate. So that is $1,800-2000 and up a month or $21,600-24,000 per year. Wow, no wonder they need the medical help. /sarc off
AMEN.
I wonder why the grandparents didn’t, at least, step in to help their naive children get a loan.
What about the cranial fracture?
Five will get you ten that the Frosts == husband and wife == are trustfund babies.
The schemes to restore the so-called Fairness Doctrine and regulate the Internet are of key importance to the liberals. No doubt the faux conservatives on FR feel likewise, especially the ones who regularly bash NewsMax or World Net Daily and would rather rely on the centrist Fox News or the outright liberal networks and old line daily newspapers like The New York Times and the Washington Post.
“”The four Frost children depend on financial aid to attend private school, the Frosts say.”
Well that vague answer answers nothing.”
- I believe that the tuition at the private school the two children attend is $20,000. per year, per child. Of course, the Frost’s may be having some government program cover this by claiming that the children’s car injuries are so severe that they need special education at a private school but, who knows?
IF the family is only paying $500.00 a year for the boys $20,000.00 year school, then WHO is paying the rest??? The Grandparents?? A Benefactor?
Them you have to add taxes and insurance, and probably other cost like association fee, etc.
Another article about this “firestorm”.
Here we go again. Every time you raise unappealing (to the Left) facts, you’re accused of an attack.
On the other hand, it’s okay for Democrats to attack people with lies.
swiftboating (adj.) 1. Telling the truth about a Democrat.
I think everyone is just GUESSING that the grandparents help pay the tuition.
I read it yesterday, but you know not every word is reliable!
Wondering that too? Their mortgage payments alone would be over $1000 a month. Add in expenses and I don’t see how they could be living here? Heating, cooling, insurance, car payments, food for 6...?
It would make sense that they are paying.....they should have paid for health insurance FIRST!
Let’s see. $50k annually. Mortgage for $125 ? on commercial bldg,w taxes and ins comes to roughly $12,500. Mortgage on house (doesn’t say how much they refinanced), say $200k, comes to roughly $20k per year. Now, that leaves $17.5 for EVERYTHING ELSE.
Not likely. Sorry to say, if these figures are accurate, they would qualify for most state insurance programs. This is another “phony soldiers” soros tactic. Sorry for the father, but i’m pretty sure if anybody dug into his finances, we would find either tax or loan fraud, cuz these numbers don’t add up.
No kidding!!! He’s got an ILLEGAL LLC!!!
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