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So the freepers are out to "destroy" a working family for daring to support a popular Democratic program, are they. Today, I show you how to counterattack -- and kick their ass.

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Graeme recounted his sob story to Congress in an effort to show the mean Republicans that poor kids need health insurance, too. Baltimore Sun reporter Matthew Hay Brown profiled the "poor" Frost family, but failed to ask some important questions. As it turns out, little Graeme isn't so poor, and bloggers are on the story.

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Kim Priestep at Wizbang is outraged and says, "hardworking taxpayers who sacrifice many things such as expensive private schools and expensive houses in order to buy their own health care for their families are supposed to subsidize this family's health insurance premiums."

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Bad things happen to good people, and they cause financial problems and tough choices. But, if this is the face of the "needy" in America, then no-one is not needy. And, if everyone needs assistance from the federal government, so be it. But I don't think I want to drive down the road where Bonnie Frost wants to take us - because at the end of it there are no free-born citizens, just a nation where everyone is a ward of the state.

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But there is no reason to put more and more middle-class families on the government teat, and doing so is deeply corrosive of liberty.

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If, for some reason, it occurs to you to fact-check a story like this, please, please, please try to exercise some modicum of intelligence. And if you read someone else's investigation, please, please, please ask yourself whether there are any obvious problems with it before plastering it all over cyberspace. It's one thing to investigate the claims made by a kid on the radio privately, and then go public if you find some actual problems. It's quite another to go after a kid (or anyone else) with allegations whose problems are so obvious that you'd really have to wonder about anyone who didn't spot them.

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The Frost family seems to have around half a million dollars in assets! And yet their children are getting government-sponsored health care! This certainly sounds bad, unless you happen to be familiar with an arcane financial instrument called a mortgage, which allows a person to purchase a home or commercial property even if she cannot come up with the full price, and to pay off the balance over time.

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As I said: before you start smearing kids, let alone siccing Michelle Malkin on them, you should at least have the decency to try to make sure that you've got the facts straight. Likewise, before you link to a piece that smears kids, you should make sure that it has the facts straight.

Yet another debunking of the "case" against the Frost family.

Adding to the fun, the freep includes this nugget:

Confirmation both attended Park found here using edit-"find on this page"-Gemma. It will take you to an article in the schools newspaper about a fundraiser for Gemma class of 16, and Graeme class of 13.

Needing a fundraiser thrown for them sure is good evidence of their impressive wealth. And it sure is classy to see this evidence of a personal tragedy introduced as evidence against them.

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But wait, it gets worse:

The current market value of their improved 3,040 SF home at 104 S Collington Ave is unknown but 113 S COLLINGTON AVE, also an end unit, sold for $485,000 this past March and it was only 2,060 SF. A photo taken in the family's kitchen shows what appears to be a recent remodeling job with granite counter tops and glass front cabinets

My Lord! Not glass-front cabinets! What a fop! Or, the guy's a woodworker who owns his own woodworking business, who probably did the work himself using materials he was able to get himself at a very reasonable price?

The upshot is that this is a guy with a family of 6: is it a mystery why he wants to own a 3,000-ft house? is it wrong of him to drive, gasp, an SUV (for 4 kids and a mom and dad)? And to do all this on $45K -- sounds like he' and his wife are pretty hard working, actually, paying their own way -- until their kids get into a horrible car accident and need incredibly expensive medical care.

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There's something pretty mean-spirited about the wingnut Citizen Journalists here: they don't know a thing about this family, really, but are trying to portray them as "yuppie" freeloaders while screeching their jackass heads off about "socialism."

The point is, healthcare costs can make it impossible for hardworking middle class families to have a decent life. This is a problem. SCHIP expansion would help to solve it at a moderate cost.

And last but not least . . .

Defeat The Right In Three Minutes

It all gets down to two simple words.

"Cheap labor". That's their whole philosophy in a nutshell – which gives you a short and pithy "catch phrase" that describes them perfectly. You've heard of "big-government liberals". Well they're "cheap-labor conservatives".

"Cheap-labor conservative" is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because it's exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you'll work, and the more power those "corporate lords" have over you. If you are a wealthy elite – or a "wannabe" like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap.

Don't believe me. Well, let's apply this principle, and see how many right-wing positions become instantly understandable.

* Cheap-labor conservatives don't like social spending or our "safety net". Why. Because when you're unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you "over a barrel" and in a position to "work cheap or starve".

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