Louise Slaughter: “The President is intent on going to war. He continues to take us down a path to war. The papers carry today the story…”

“The President is intent on going to war. He continues to take us down a path to war. The papers carry today the story that the stimulus package is going to be eaten up by the war. You can pour that $700 billion into the economy, and it will not do any good because nobody is going to invest, which means we are going to continue to have long-term unemployment. My State has the highest rate of unemployment. This is a travesty, and what you are doing is you are putting a little Band-Aid on it today because you have got public pressure. You will be back. I guarantee you will be back in March. You will be out here saying, well, amazingly, the economy has not picked up. We do not know what to do, so we have to give a few more benefits, a few more nickels and dimes out the door.”