Are you the owner of a small business? If so, you are revered by President **** and worshipped by Senator McCain, just ask him; no, don’t bother, he’ll reach out to tell you that you’re an American hero. You’re one of the people he’s trying to protect from the socialist ideas of Barack Obama. McCain says that Obama wants to tax you out of business and destroy your ability to create jobs for your equally worthy neighbors.
In 1997, the Congress mandated that the federal government set aside 23% of its procurement dollars for small businesses. They realized that you and yours are the engine of employment in the nation’s economy and wanted you to get a share of the tax dollars that you paid in to Uncle Sam. That’s in addition to other set asides for small firms owned by minority and other disadvantaged people. Isn’t that super; your government has a heart. You didn’t know?
When **** assumed the presidency, helped greatly by your contributions and leadership, you must have been salivating. Imagine a government headed by folks that loved you and who were committed to sending at least 23% of the huge federal pie to you. It would be for work that you could do well, so there was every reason that this would be a symbiotic relationship as well as patriotic one. How about that?
It was all bovine waste. You think you’re tight with these folks and that they love you and the ground you walk on. Wrong buffalo breathe, that policy is for show and not for go. It turns out that if you make pencils, erasers, coffee mugs or any number of products not produced by some of the nation’s largest and most powerful companies, you were welcome to apply for the crumbs. If on the other hand, you wanted to play in the sandbox occupied by the real people, it was time to cover your eyes as you were going to have the sand kicked in your face.
The Washington Post did an analysis and today ran an expose that shows the depth of the **** administration’s love for you. It’s kind of like the love that the sons of the robber barons had for upstairs maids, it kind of meant a different kind of love; you love and they shaft. The cavalier treatment was most striking with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security where the money’s big and the purchases are high tech, you know somewhere you might actually have a chance of becoming a big business if you could produce.
Some of the nation’s and world’s biggest firms such as British Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Science Applications International Corp., Lockheed Martin, Dell Computer and others got the lion’s share of your dough. Both the Post and the government make it clear that it wasn’t the fault of these firms. The contracting agencies simply didn’t care whether they followed the rules.
So when you hear John McCain sing his love song to Joe the Plumber, just remember as long as Joe doesn’t mind fixing toilets, he’s a hero, but if he – or you - want to cut out a big high tech firm, he’ll find himself in an outhouse.
Here’s the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102989.html?hpid=moreheadlines
I ain’t b.s.n’ ya; you gottta be big to be loved by these guys.
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You missed an opportunity to brag about what W has done for the newest small business group he personally help created - businesses owned by disabled veterans. They now are the small business class in vogue by the Feds and all because of W! Hell if were not for W there would be limited opportunities for such a situation to even occur. Another example of how this administration creates opportunities for people to become disabled then to compete for government jobs. Brilliant!
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