Frank Pallone: “That is true. The other thing the gentleman mentioned that I wanted to just mention briefly is that it is a little…”

“That is true. The other thing the gentleman mentioned that I wanted to just mention briefly is that it is a little deceptive out there. I know the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year. And my district I would say, certainly if you look at it nationwide, is a fairly affluent area; and we saw all the people running to the malls, the lines at the malls. And so people will say to me, gee, everybody is going shopping; things must be good. But as my colleague says, it is only true for the people that have the money. I found when I went home for the longer period of time that we had last week that there are people who have lost their jobs, there are people that are suffering, and those lines getting into the mall do not indicate what is really going on out there. I hope that retail sales go up, and that is another reason for the economy to come back. I certainly encourage it. But there are a lot of people suffering.”