My thumbnail sketches of theGOP presidential field:
Bachmann: How can we get inoculated against whatever she's carrying?
Huntsman: Another Mormon? Too nice a guy for the Republicans to show him big love.
Santorum: Preaches a form of Christianity with which Jesus would be unfamiliar.
Gingrich: Too smart to actually believe the nonsense he spews.
Paul: If they can't pay for insurance let them die.
Cain: Former CEO of Godfather's Pizza has an offer I can refuse.
Perry: Makes the previous governor of Texas look like a Mensa member.
Romney: His claim to fame as a governor is the successful Obamacare style program he instituted in Massachusetts which he has now decided would be bad for America.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The GOP and Jobs
Forty-two years ago a group of record dealers were sitting around and listening to President Nixon give the usual speech as to how the small business community created more jobs than the large corporations - that the small business community deserved the government's help in order to expand.
A few of the dealers got angry and said they could not get help from the Small Business Administration to expand. I was president of the Association of Record Dealers at the time and the group told me to find out why. I wrote President Nixon about the issue and the reply I received said that if I really wanted to help small business I should join the newly formed SCORE and ACTION.
I did just that. At the beginning I had the feeling I was helping small business, in conjunction with the SBA, which gave out loans. Then Congress decided it was too expensive and lessened the money given to the SBA and forced it out of the loan business. They turned the matter over to the banks and guaranteed a large portion of the loans. Unfortunately, the banks were more interested in making bad loans, bad mortgages and foreclosures than than they were in loaning money to small businesses.
I heard the same nonsense in the last GOP debate. How can you be concerned about small business and not want to fund the Small Business Administration?
If the Democrats also give lip service to small business, where do these job creators have to turn for help?
A few of the dealers got angry and said they could not get help from the Small Business Administration to expand. I was president of the Association of Record Dealers at the time and the group told me to find out why. I wrote President Nixon about the issue and the reply I received said that if I really wanted to help small business I should join the newly formed SCORE and ACTION.
I did just that. At the beginning I had the feeling I was helping small business, in conjunction with the SBA, which gave out loans. Then Congress decided it was too expensive and lessened the money given to the SBA and forced it out of the loan business. They turned the matter over to the banks and guaranteed a large portion of the loans. Unfortunately, the banks were more interested in making bad loans, bad mortgages and foreclosures than than they were in loaning money to small businesses.
I heard the same nonsense in the last GOP debate. How can you be concerned about small business and not want to fund the Small Business Administration?
If the Democrats also give lip service to small business, where do these job creators have to turn for help?
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