Politifact: Repblican SOTU responses full of half truths and fabrications

 Rep. Paul Ryan said:

1. that "trust in government is at an all-time low. This is a false 
2. the size of government is at an all-time high which is also off by 60 years. 
3. President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent . . .  — an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. The actual figure is closer to 27 per cent. 
4. Ryan claimed the stim didn't create jobs, but the nonpartisan CBO says the stimulus increased employment by between 1.4 million and 3.6 million people in the third quarter of 2010 . . .

Rep. Michele Bachmann said 

1. the bailout cost "$700 billion." The net cost actually is estimated to be much less — $25 billion. The $700 billion is a reference to TARP that GW Bush signed into law. But the estimated net cost to taxpayers will be $25 billion after the government sells its stocks and the companies repay the money . . .
2. Bachmann repeated the false claim about the need to hire "16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama’s health care bill." The figure of 16,500 originated from a House Republican report that relies on false assumptions and outright misrepresentation.  

Both Republicans also made numerous false claims about the cost of the health care reforms, job creation and the stim. 

1. the stimulus didn’t create jobs (it did)
2. the health care law hurts job growth (experts say the impact will be small and primarily effect minimum wage jobs.) 
3. that "16,500 IRS agents" will enforce that law which is based on a flawed, partisan analysis.  

See http://factcheck.org/2011/01/factchecking-the-gop-response/ for the complete story. 

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