One truly Crazy Busy Entrepreneur in my circle has taken the time to download a pdf of the proposed 2009 Stimulus Package. Lisa Wagner, CEO of Piranha Marketing, is an exceptional entrepreneur and business coach. I’ve always enjoyed reading her many articles on business, personal development, and entrepreneurial issues. She granted permission to reprint her article on the Stimulus Package:
70% of new jobs each year are created by small businesses … it seems that if you wanted to “stimulate” the economy you would go to where the growth always comes from – small business … yet this almost 1 TRILLION dollar plan has no substantial plans for helping the 30 million small businesses (employing 2-25 employees each) to do what they do best – look for ways to grow.
Almost all of the programs dump money into the public sector. It is not a plan crafted by economists, or by anyone who apparantly has any shred of business experience. This is what kills me (and by the way – I’m not all through this huge pdf of this bill … and it may actually kill me). Here’s what kills me … when a small business, say my business, is not able to cover expenses – we look to see what we can do to create more value, get more business, and EARN the money we need. We don’t cry and ask for a damn bailout or a handout.
This bill on the table is going to destroy whatever real chances for getting our act together that we have. It’s a cop-out. It’s paying off special interests who create no significant jobs in our economy. It’s political. And it’s written by career bureaucrats and no one who seems to have had to run a real small business. It’s embarrassing … and certainly not the “change” promised with this election. It’s something we are going to pay for in taxes on the front end … and will end up paying even more trying to fix the problems this creates on the backend.
It’s easy to treat this as “pretend” money because the politicians – both sides – are not spending their money, they are spending ours. It’s a travesty. It’s criminal. And it’s a huge disappointment.
Please track down your representative’s contact info and ask them to not support this bill. This is not going to fix anything at all …
My two cents … make that one cent, I need to start saving more.
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