Wes Watkins: “I came to this Congress as an entrepreneur. I came here as a Democrat. I was a conservative Democrat. I sat on the…”

“I came to this Congress as an entrepreneur. I came here as a Democrat. I was a conservative Democrat. I sat on the Democrat side for 14 years, concerned about balancing the budget and building jobs. I represent an area that has the highest unemployment and underemployment of private sector jobs in Oklahoma. But in order to build private sector jobs you have to have employers. You have to have businesses and industries. Let me say any of you who do not want any of those ten major corporations and all the corporations you call faceless, along with other names, I would welcome those industries in my district. You can come any time because we need jobs, private sector jobs. Yes, we have got to stimulate the economy. We have got to have this $100 billion investment to turn this economy around, and also turn around the pension plans. We must turn around the 401(k)s of our workers who have lost 25, 30, and 40 percent of their retirement. We must stimulate the economy. You can do that with capital gains reduction. You can do that repeal with AMT. You can do that with the stimulation, accelerated depreciation. Let me say, you can do it in the worst economic conditions.”