BushInc caught giving BILLIONS of SBA small biz dollars to Big Business

[blm]

This is a great case to pursue, because too many small business owners vote Republican thanks to the media spun perception that GOP policies benefit them. That has to be one the GOPs biggest lies.


Friday August 26, 1:55 pm ET
SBA Includes Awards to Fortune 1000 Firms in New Small Business Statistics, Says American Small Business League

PETALUMA, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Small Business League reports that the Small Business Administration released the highly controversial 2004 federal small business contracting statistics on Thursday, August 25, 2005. The SBA is claiming $69.23 billion or 23.09 percent in federal contracts had been awarded to small businesses during fiscal year 2004.

The latest SBA small business statistics ignore the findings of seven separate government investigations and two private studies that have all concluded the SBA has dramatically overstated the government's true level of contracts with small businesses by reporting billions in awards to many of the largest firms in the country as small business awards.

A 2004 investigation by the SBA's own Office of Advocacy found the SBA had reported billions in awards to such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Northrop- Grumman, Titan Industries, Raytheon and Buhrmann, a Dutch firm with 18,000 employees, as small business awards. The report concluded "vendor deception" was one of the reasons for the dramatic abuses.

The SBA's own Office of Inspector General has released the results of three investigations in the past year that found the SBA has intentionally included awards to large businesses in their small business contracting statistics. Report 5-14 was prompted by a request from Senator John Kerry. It stated, "The SBA awarded four of the six high dollar procurements, reported as small business procurements, to large companies at the time of the procurements."

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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050826/phf013.html?.v=20

[rodeodance]

1. they will claim a 'tecnicality' and get away with it.

i am feeling down about lots of stuff lately. pessimistic--

[swag]

2. Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal!

[annabanana]

3. nominated.. because it's the small business owners

who have been fooled into thinking that B*shCoInc would help them achieve the status of the uberrich. They've been nickle and dimeing their employees for years for the sake of this pie-in-the-sky wet dream...

WAKE UP IDIOTS..
"big business" doesn't include YOU!

[ultraist]

30. Small business owners are not just the owners of mom and pop shops

Small business owners are not just mom and pop stores with two employees and a small profit. While the legal standards vary from industry to industry, a small business in many cases can be up to 1,000 employees with a very large revenue and profit margin.

Bush likes to throw around the term, "small business owners" because many people think it applies mostly to middle class people, when in fact, it doesn't.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. Good read.

sayeth blm:
"This is a great case to pursue, because too many small business owners vote Republican thanks to the media spun perception that GOP policies benefit them. That has to be one the GOPs biggest lies."

Yes, I'm always hearing about how much better Republican policies are for small business owners. This story is a good read.

[blm]

6. The GOP only gets away with their lies because corporate media LETS THEM.

In fact, corporate media gladly pushes GOP lies FOR THEM.

[ladjf]

7. Thats because they are them.

[blm]

8. True. Media has become the PR servicing depts. of the GOP agenda.

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[ladjf]

20. They, like the Bush administration, are desperate to stay

in power for a number of reasons. One is that if they lost control, their deeds would be found out and they would all go to jail.

[blm]

32. I suspect the same. They KNOW they're complicit in the coverup so they

have to keep covering up in hope the public never understands the extent of their involvement.

[ladjf]

33. They wouldn't be able to cover up everything with shredding

machines.

[katinmn]

5. corporate greed knows no bounds

[BlueJac]

9. Bush at his best!

[TayTay]

10. This news is six months old to boot!

This came up in the SBA hearing on the SBA budget in Feb. The report is just now coming out (because it's the week before Labor Day and the authors probably want to bury it.)

Feb. 17th, 2005. Go check out this hearing that specifically addresses this problem. (That's what 6 months ago. And SBA just releases the doc Kerry asked for? Shit that 's awful.)

http://sbc.senate.gov/hearings/109hrgs.html

Go to this archived hearing and fast forward to time of about 50:00 minutes into it. Kerry just utterly and completely nailed Hector Barreto, SBA head on it's loan programs and how they are administered. Go listen to this and then we can come back and talk about this SBA stuff. (Nothing has changed in six months. The Bushies are still lying their asses off about the loans, claiming credit for stuff they were FORCED to do by Congress and so forth.)

This SBA stuff is small peanuts against the total US budget, but this is damned important stuff for the people involved. And the Bushies are intentionally taking the SBA money, funnelling it to their friends and then lying about it to the public. (And getting the Chamber of Commerce endorsements because of payola.) Feh!

[MH1]

24. Small peanuts getting even smaller...

Hasn't * repeatedly cut SBA funding in his proposed budgets? I'm pretty sure Kerry had some choice words about that.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

11. Nominated - as noted above

Small businessmen think the GOP is good for them.

BTW, my government has achieved a level of corruption that I did not believe possible in this country. These guys are worse than banana republic dictators.

[blm]

13. And just like your nick screams.... "It's the MEDIA, stupid."

BIG CORPORATIONS and their media arms are TELLING the American small businessmen that the GOP is better for their interests, and all the while pocketing the money that is supposed to be set used for aid to those small businesses.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

17. My nick

ItsTheMediaStupidandTheCorruptCrookedVotingMachinesDammit was too long to have to type.

[not fooled]

27. Because there's more money...

"These guys are worse than banana republic dictators."

More to loot here in 'Murka. Yea say the pirates. Loot, pillage, steal and as long as you proclaim faith in jeebus, wear nice suits, and look good on TV, the morans will applaud you as you rob them blind,

How the f*ck did (most of) the citizenry get so stupid???

[Cleita]

12. Impeach him NOW!

He and the GOP are nothing but criminals and crooks.

[Deja Q]

14. Kicked and nominated, Big biz is not small biz and I am SICK of the

double-standards and hyporisy. Big biz doesn't need government handouts. SMall biz does. Particularly now because of the power big biz HAS.

[blm]

15. Plus, the jerk has the SBA report LIE to cover up their shell game.

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[Nothing Without Hope]

16. This is an outrage - and potentially a public relations issue for the GOP

Thank you for reporting this - it needs publicity, it needs inclusion in talking points circulated to voters to educate them about who what the GOP REALLY supports despite all their lying promises. We certainly aren't surprised, but many of them still don't realize how they are being deceived and damaged.

Filed in my "GOP scandals and horrors" folder, in a new "GOP against small business" file.

Recommended. This needs wide publicity and should be in talking points to reach GOP voters.

[blm]

18. Agree. The DNC should take note of this article and the circumstances

surrounding this issue.

[me b zola]

23. "Filed in my "GOP scandals and horrors" folder..."

LOL. I've had to create sub-folders:

"Florida thugs" file

"Ohio thugs" file



The amounts of files needed just to keep up with their scandels & criminal activity is mind-numbing.

[Nothing Without Hope]

19. kick - GD moves FAST! n/t

[lonestarnot]

21. This fucker continues to perform the great heist!

and on edit ....get away with it! Let's stop him!

[Nothing Without Hope]

22. Kicked - and I'm recommending this thread to readers of other threads.

For example in this one:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4498464
Thread title: NY Times op/ed on secret Bush plan: “DESTROYING THE NATIONAL PARKS”

It's not just the destruction, it's also explicitly allowing religious merchandise and forbidding any mention of evolution in literature. The secret draft plan would effectively sell off OUR national parks for political capital and make them vulnerable to state and local political agendas as well as commercial and religious interests.

These two threads are both among the issues that need to be included in talking points to voters as well as fought. We need to be collecting this evidence, organizing it, and publicizing it. We can't wait for the DNC to get around to these important tasks, if they ever do.

[blm]

28. Couldn't hurt to send this to DNC, though. Sometimes they miss important

stories because the media won't put up ANYTHING like this story for reporting, let alone the discussion necessary for the public to see what's going on.

[Judi Lynn]

25. Bush can ALWAYS get lower than you already thought he could. Kick.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[proud patriot]

26. who stole the cookie from the cookie jar ? not me , bush did

bush stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

As my husband and I are a small business
this pisses me off .

[charlie]

29. The hurricane can bring this to the fore

It's the SBA that'll be counted on for disaster loans to businesses. If there's a peep about not enough funds being available...

[blm]

31. Good point. We have to push the point. I hope Dean is seeing this.

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