Christ, What An Asshole: Apparently, This Is Why Uninsured Poor Kids Don't Deserve Health Care
Published by BG on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 at 6:41 AM.The Corner on National Review Online
The new poor [Mark Steyn]
Over the weekend, I posted a couple of things re Graeme Frost, the Democratic Party's 12-year old healthcare spokesman. Michelle Malkin reports that the blogospheric lefties are all steamed about the wingnuts' Swiftboating of sick kids, etc.
Sorry, no sale. The Democrats chose to outsource their airtime to a Seventh Grader. If a political party is desperate enough to send a boy to do a man's job, then the boy is fair game. As it is, the Dems do enough cynical and opportunist hiding behind biography and identity, and it's incredibly tedious. And anytime I send my seven-year-old out to argue policy you're welcome to clobber him, too. The alternative is a world in which genuine debate is ended and, as happened with Master Frost, politics dwindles down to professional staffers writing scripts to be mouthed by Equity moppets.
But one thing is clear by now: Whatever the truth about this boy's private school, his family home, his father's commercial property, etc, the Frosts are a very particular situation and do not illustrate any social generality - and certainly not one that makes the case for an expensive expansive all-but universal entitlement.
A more basic point is made very robustly by Kathy Shaidle: Advanced western democracies have delivered the most prosperous societies in human history. There simply are no longer genuinely "poor" people in sufficient numbers. As Miss Shaidle points out, if you're poor today, it's almost always for behavioral reasons
Shorter Steyn: I'll kick a second-grader in the shins if I want to, especially if it makes the Democrats look bad. Oh, and our prosperous free market society doesn't really have an underclass of poor people. That's all a construct of the antiwealthofaggofascist Left. If you aren't making the choice to cover your kid with health insurance, that's your choice, and that's what makes America great.
Even Shorter Steyn: If you're poor, you deserve whatever you have coming to you.
Christ, what an asshole.
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