Jason Chaffetz, Speaker of the House?

[Topper]

Federal Poverty Level is 16,000 for a single person. No amount of budgeting is going to make health care affordable for that person.

That's why there is Medicaid for the medically indigent. There are some people who for various reasons are poor, some due to bad circumstances, some due being born into a shitstorm, and some due to personal choice. Notwithstanding the cause, the federal government does provide a basic level of services to the medically indigent. It is affordable if the government pays for it.

[Applejack]

You are probably right. I heard over 90% of government employees (non elected) vote democrat. I doubt he would get over half of the remaining 10% made up of republicans and independents.

That's sounds like a fox news stat (how could you ever know such a thing) and completely irrelevant (government employees generally live in md and va, not dc). But thanks!

[Uncle Ted]

LOL... Chaffetz used donor's money to buy an iPhone:

Jason Chaffetz Spent $775 of His Campaign Donors’ Money at the Apple Store Last Year

This morning, Republican Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz defended the GOP House members’ plan for an Affordable Care Act replacement by saying on CNN that poor people should consider spending money on health care instead of a new iPhone.


“You know what? Americans have choices, and the’ve got to make a choice,” he said. “And so, maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love, and that they want to go and spend hundreds of dollars on that–maybe they should invest it in their own healthcare.”


In addition to being wrong about how much health care costs, the comment was tone deaf and callous, even by GOP standards; Chaffetz himself admitted later that he didn’t make his point “as smoothly as [he] possibly could.” It should also be noted as a member of Congress, Chaffetz is eligible for healthcare that is subsidized by taxpayers.


But there’s another layer of hypocrisy to the congressman’s statements. As noted by The Intercept’s Lee Fang, FEC filings to show that Chaffetz’s donors not only pay his campaign’s Verizon bills– which last year ranged between $400 and $515 each month–but also, on at least one occasion, for his Apple electronics. On July 15, 2016, Chaffetz, or someone from his office, spent a total of $775.04 in two purchases (one for $738.08 and another for $36.96) at an Apple Store in Salt Lake City using funds from the Friends of Jason Chaffetz committee. That would be enough to purchase a new iPhone 6S and a case.
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The totals are even higher if you go back a few years. The New York Daily News reports that since 2014 the Friends of Jason Chaffetz committee has filed more than 20 expenditures for Verizon Wireless for a total of $11,021. $704 more was spent by the committee on two iPads in 2015, in addition to over $3,000 at Apple Stores.


Choosing between an iPhone and healthcare would seem pretty easy when taxpayers are covering your insurance and corporations like Pfizer, Amazon, and Koch Industries are paying for your fancy phone and cell service.

http://www.spin.com/2017/03/jason-ch...e-apple-store/

All I can say is that better spent on Apple products than that Android crap.

[Walter Sobchak]

All I can say is that better spent on Apple products than that Android crap.

I activated a new iPhone for a member of the household today. I died a little inside.

[Non Sequitur]

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/2...the-Laundering

Yeah, I recognize the source, but I can't help but wish every word of this is true.

[BigFatMeanie]

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/2...the-Laundering

Yeah, I recognize the source, but I can't help but wish every word of this is true.

You can't help but wish Jason Chaffetz was caught by the Russians having an affair and because they compromised him he worked to launder Russian money, along with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnel?

[Non Sequitur]

Who doesn't like it when hypocrisy is exposed?

[Crockett]

Who doesn't like it when hypocrisy is exposed?

This is not about Chaffetz, but speaking of hypocrisy I though this was funny:

[frank ryan]

This is not about Chaffetz, but speaking of hypocrisy I though this was funny:

O'Reilly wasn't a president so that cartoon really doesn't work.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That cartoon is dumb.

[Crockett]

LOL tough crowd.

O'Reilly wasn't a president so that cartoon really doesn't work.

He was the president of cable news.

[hostile]

I'm skeptical of Chaffetz' explanation of why he is going to be absent from congress for the next few weeks.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5223005-1...-chaffetz-from

[Bo Diddley]

I'm skeptical of Chaffetz' explanation of why he is going to be absent from congress for the next few weeks.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5223005-1...-chaffetz-from

It's a little strange that he's repeating a disappearing act. Do you suspect mental health problems?

[creekster]

It's a little strange that he's repeating a disappearing act. Do you suspect mental health problems?

Obviously. Clinton drove him crazy.

[Moliere]

I'm skeptical of Chaffetz' explanation of why he is going to be absent from congress for the next few weeks.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5223005-1...-chaffetz-from

I wonder if he's been hiking the Appalachian trail...


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