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Chaffetz doubts Obama's job-creation claims

jp | 6:07 p.m. June 11, 2009

I wanted the same thing when Bush said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and needed to wage war immediately--proof. Funny how none of the Republicans wanted proof when it was their man in office. The lunacy of politics, left and right.

Chaffetzz | 6:09 p.m. June 11, 2009

A zealous Republican not convinced of claims that shed a positive light on decisions by Democrats? Get outta here.

C.W. | 6:17 p.m. June 11, 2009

Must be "new math"!

It used to be we couldn't trust the govt. for SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION, now we can't even trust them for OBJECTIVE INFORMATION!

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arc | 6:39 p.m. June 11, 2009

Jason is correct. If you ask most people what is wrong in the US, you get "it is Jobs stupid" type response.

Obama is heading the wrong direction.

We need Jason and others helping us change.

(Yes, I know the republicans didn't go great when they were in power, but not as bad as the combo now.)

Job losses | 4:58 a.m. June 12, 2009

We see it every day in local news of big and small companies going out of business in Utah and the nation so how does this equate to saving or adding jobs to the market? The numbers don't add up to his claims. Maybe he is calling the bailout of GM and Chrysler and keeping them going as a part of his salvation plan. On the other side of his salvation he is furthering our national debt and feeding inflation and more wage cuts. Saving a job to subsistence levels is no improvement to the economy and adds to the frustration of the working people. It's all about manipulating the numbers making claims.

I mean jobs that pay well and that are not being created for cheap labor for illegal foreign nationals for less than $10 an hour. Cheap labor is under the table wages that don't pay taxes and is tax free income for illegals. How does this kind of labor help the economy?

State governments, including Utah, have diverted funding to create jobs in to state budgets to balance their budgets and save government social and welfare programs inundated with out of work(?) illegals.

Anonymous | 7:05 a.m. June 12, 2009

Who cares what this clown thinks? He offers no ideas, only whines about the nation's leadership, and has ZERO influence in Washington. The GOP is a wasteland of ideas and leadership. They leave a disasterous mess, then attack the ones who step up to clean the mess up. Pathetic losers.

lost in DC | 7:16 a.m. June 12, 2009

Mr. Chaffetz, BO lies, or at best misleads. Rising unemployment, such as we have been experiencing, is impossible with job saving or job creation. The very best BO could say is that while we have lost X number of jobs, my spend-aholic porkulus prevented the job losses from being X plus 150,000, but he chooses not to say that as it tarnishes his rock star image.

come to think of it, do we really want a rock star president? the vast majority are stoned 90% of the time and show they have no judgement or discretion and have serious personality flaws.

MJH79 | 7:48 a.m. June 12, 2009

Liberals have never been constrained by facts. That is why they can say things like "jobs saved," without anyone in the media questioning them. It is absolutely impossible to track "saved jobs." The government has no formula or algorithm to figure that out. So, Obama can say whatever he wants and get away with it.

This is not about Bush. All of you Obamatons using teenage logic to make your points, need to start taking responsibility for the idiot you elected and hold him accountable.

Patriot | 7:50 a.m. June 12, 2009

Chaffetz and Ron Paul are the only ones with any sense of what it takes to make a Government work. Taxes and Unemployment will go up no matter who is in office.

Re: jp | 8:35 a.m. June 12, 2009

"I wanted the same thing when Bush said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and needed to wage war immediately--proof."

You had it, and plenty of it, you just refuse to acknowledge it at the time. And most of the "proof" was supplied by your beloved Democrat President Bill Clinton and verified by the CIA and virtually every other intelligence agency in the world.

Remember when we almost went to war with Saddam in late 1998 because he refused to allow UN weapons inspectors into the country?

That, incidentally, is why Bill Clinton -- not George Bush or Dick Cheney or Paul Wolfowitz or all the other "Neo-cons" -- made regime change in Iraq an official US policy.

Barack Obama jobs claim, OTOH, has virtually no support other than in his administration and the sycophantic media.

UTAH Bill | 9:02 a.m. June 12, 2009

If Chaffetz were in power, we'd be in a Depression rather than a Recession. Stimulus monies are behind the construction work we see going on around us. Our state government economists (working for our Republican administration) have shown the stimulus monies equal 26,000 jobs in Utah.

Re: UTAH Bill | 9:14 a.m. June 12, 2009

You keep thinking that, Bill. Unemployment is already at 9.4% and climbing; back in February The Great One predicted it would peak at only 8% if his stimulus planned was passed by Congress.

Furthermore, only a fraction of the stimulus money has actually been spent; the bulk of it isn't scheduled to be spent until 2011 or 2012.

Of course, all of this ignores the fact that Barack Obama will create more national debt during his presidency than all the previous presidents since World War II combined. I have a hard time seeing how that will produce long-term economic growth.

Honest Luke | 11:45 a.m. June 12, 2009

The longer Chaffetz serves, the more glad I am that I voted for him. His honesty must make Obama nervous.

RedShirt | 12:10 p.m. June 12, 2009

To "jp | 6:07 p.m." if you want the proof of WMDs in Iraq, do a Google search for "nerve agent iraq" without the quotes. You will find several stories by the AP and MSN and other news agencies that report on soldiers finding chaches of 50 gallon drums of nerve agents.

Also, look for "yellow cake uranium Iraq" and you will find some stories that say that the US shipped tons of yellow cake uranium (raw material for nukes) to Canada for disposal.

The WMD information was there, the media didn't like the war by that time so they did their best to hide the reports.

Jason Whiner | 3:49 p.m. June 12, 2009

Come on Jason, quit your whining and do something!

arc | 6:36 p.m. June 12, 2009

Jason is doing something, what we need. Obama is heading a direction no one knew when he was elected and wouldn't have voted for him if we had known.

Rep. Chaffetz needs more like him back in D.C.

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