Chaffetz’s Priority is Balanced U.S. budget
When a newly elected politician prepares to head to Washington, that free spending den of iniquity, I always hold my breath, half way waiting to get sold out, but still hoping against hope that THIS TIME IT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT. In the case of Jason Chaffetz, so far so good.
Rep. elect Chaffetz’ first co-sponsored bill will require a balanced federal budget. The cynical among us might say that this is just window dressing and has no chance of passing. Probably it won’t pass. It will get some of us thinking that maybe the problem with the enormous deficits we have been running is that Congress is genetically incapable of disciplining itself and unless we come up with a way of handcuffing these people to some form of frugality, we will continue to bleed red ink at a time we can ill afford it.
Kudos to Rep. Chaffetz, keep up the good work!
~~John Cronin~~
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705273910,00.html
After he is sworn into office next week, Rep.-elect Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said among the first things he will do is co-sponsor a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget.
“Fiscal discipline is my No. 1 priority. Without it, we are not able to do anything else,” Chaffetz said Monday.
He added, “The state constitution in Utah requires a balanced budget. This works well for Utah and will work well for our country.”
Conservatives for years have pushed such a constitutional amendment — and often introduce it on the first day that Congress convenes. But they have been unable to get it through Congress. Such amendments must be passed by two-thirds of both the House and Senate and then be ratified by legislatures in three-fourths of the states.
“Federal government spending is out of control. Washington obviously lacks the discipline to live within its means. We cannot be all things to all people. We are $10 trillion-plus in debt, and the number is growing every day,” Chaffetz said.
“This is unacceptable and unsustainable. I am committed to dramatically reduce the size and scope of the federal budget. We cannot continue to run this country by putting more debt on a credit card,” Chaffetz said.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
Agreed, John, we rebuild one brick at a time…….Looks like Chaffetz is off and running, so far so good…..We can at least breathe a breath of fresh air hoping he won’t let us down…….A good start to a New Year, KUDO’S to John for sharing and to Mr. Chaffetz!!!!!!!!!!
December 31st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
He’s my representative!!
December 31st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Nate,
Any chance we can clone Jason and have his genetic copies run in other districts?
January 1st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Does anyone have Chaffetz’s email so we can let him know we heartily approve of his political priorities?
January 1st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Chaffetz POTUS 2012, right?
January 1st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Deg. Don’t palin Chaffetz. He needs SEVERAL years under his belt before I would vote for him. Yea, he looks good on paper. I want a several years record of solid conservativetism. Don’t make Chaffetz the 12 palin.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Chris is right. Please let’s not throw Jason into the lion’s den before he is ready. I said here months before Palin was picked for the VP slot that she wasn’t ready for prime time. She jumped at the chance to make a name for herself before she developed the gravitas to be a leader on the national scence and look how that turned out.
Give Jason a chance to mature in office and get some legislation passed before we even beging to think of him for VP, much less for POTUS.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I don’t think an all LDS ticket in 12 would even fly. Look how much problems Mitt had. Imagine a Romney/Chaffetz ticket. I can see the fires burning now. Jason is a good guy. But don’t palin him (yes, I’m using palin as a verb now). In fact, I don’t want anyone to be palined.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Chaffetz POTUS 2016 then?
I knew immediately I would get these type of responses from all of you:) Happy new year to all, I hope the conservative movement makes some real strong progress, everyone in my family are guided by democratic principles.